What are the most important employee benefits?

We asked for feedback via a survey, asking respondents to choose their Top 5 most important benefits and these were the options that polled most strongly.

Do you agree?

Previous big draws such as a company cars gained less than 25% of votes, and travel/season tickets was even lower at 10%. Employee discount schemes rated only just over 12%, although life assurance and the option to buy or sell annual leave polled more strongly at over 30% each.

Your top 5 benefits were:

• Flexibility over where you work – 90%
• Flexibility over how you manage your working hours – 75%
• Enhanced pension contributions – 55%
• Private medical insurance – 53%
• Bonus payment opportunity – 35%

And the rest of benefits polled as:

• Life assurance – 33%
• Buy / Sell annual leave – 30%
• Company car / car allowance – 25%
• Part time hours – 23%
• Dedicated budget for professional development – 23%
• Dedicated budget for personal wellbeing – 13%
• Employee discount schemes – 13%
• Travel / season ticket loans or funding – 10%
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption leave – 8%
• Share scheme / equity / stock options – 3%