Analysis: Why do employees rate health cash plans so highly?

Willis Towers Watson's annual index recently found that 12% of respondents valued health cash plans the most - two-thirds (66%) of whom earn less than the national average salary. Cash plans beat health insurance and other types of employee benefits such as life cover (which came in third and fourth place in the index respectively), but still, as you might expect, trailed behind pension schemes, which 32% of respondents valued. Interestingly from a wellbeing perspective, health screenings (9%) also made the top four. Despite efforts to promote mental health in the workplace and ...