'Great Resignation' highlighting importance of employee benefits and wellbeing

Research from Unum among 2,000 UK adults and 500 HR decision-makers has found that around one in four UK employees, equivalent to 11.7 million workers, would consider moving jobs in search of better employee benefits. Known as the ‘Great Resignation' or ‘Big Quit', the current trend has seen nearly two million UK adults leave their jobs since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and record levels of open job vacancies. Unum's research found the SMEs are particularly at risk of losing talent, with only 37% of firms having reviewed their employee benefits packages since the start of the p...