Supporting smaller employers through auto-enrolment

Helen Morrissey
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As auto-enrolment proceeds smaller employers can struggle to get the support that they need. The Auto-enrolment Advisory Group has launched AE in a Box, a low-cost system aimed at supporting small employers through the auto-enrolment process.

Director Chris Daems tells Helen Morrissey about how the industry can best serve small employers. What prompted you to launch your AE in a Box product? As we go further through auto-enrolment, we find that employers of 40 people, for instance, cannot afford to pay much for their auto-enrolment solutions. They often can't afford to pay consultants like their larger counterparts did. However, there are more than one million employers in this market that need help and so we have looked to see if we can package everything we've learned over the past three years to see if we can in some...

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