Healthy working

When it comes to employee benefits in the UK, company-paid pension plans are far and away the benefit most frequently provided by employers. Yet, research from Sterry Communications has shown that employees value a company paid private medical insurance plan (PMI) as much as a pension, with both polling 40% of the vote in a recent survey. While almost all employers offer some kind of pension scheme to their staff, only 7.7% of the UK population are covered under a company paid PMI plan. During the favourable economic climate of the mid-to-late 90s, company-paid subscriber numbers grew by...