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Bespoke software firm Adactus Ltd proves offering an ambitious suite of employee benefits is achievable for small businesses

Press release 19 February 2019.

Adactus Ltd, a bespoke software firm based in Oxfordshire, is expanding its employee benefits package for staff.

About Adactus

  • Adactus Ltd already offered pension and childcare vouchers to its 28 employees.
  • The company wanted to offer a more attractive and varied benefits package that would give it a competitive edge in terms of recruitment and retention.
  • Central to the new benefits offering are group risk benefits - life assurance and income protection. These are funded by Adactus Ltd, and are mandatory benefits, which employees can’t choose to opt out of - as Adactus Ltd believes them to be of critical value to both the company and its staff, with the financial, practical and emotional support they provide.
  • The group risk products particularly appealed due to the inherent added-value services. These include early intervention services from day one of absence when someone is ill, an employee assistance programme and second medical opinion service - all are provided within the group income protection cover. There is also a range of business support offered to Adactus Ltd itself. Bereavement counselling and a probate helpline are provided via the life assurance cover. On understanding the extent of the suite of complementary services that were included, Rebecca Cleare, Head of HR, Adactus Ltd commented: “I don’t think I had quite realised just how many add-on benefits came with group risk products!”
  • In addition to the group risk products, and to enhance their employee benefits offering further, Adactus Ltd also added a health cash plan arrangement, high street shopping discounts, access to an employee financial education portal, gym discounts, discounted car breakdown cover, access to pension advice vouchers, will writing services, discounted dining out and a cinema discount service.
  • The range of benefits selected was chosen by the management based on feedback from their employee survey to ensure it would be attractive to their employees.
  • Independent employee benefits consultancy, Quantum Advisory, which specialises in providing a range of flexible benefits for SMEs - including communicating the benefits to staff, implemented the benefits for Adactus Ltd.

Rebecca Cleare, Head of HR for Adactus Ltd added: “The added-value benefits within the group risk products really help us offer a holistic employee benefits package to our staff, and the group risk benefits themselves are an excellent way for us to look after our staff. As a smaller employer, we need to compete for talent, and this is a great way for us to punch above our weight and demonstrate our duty of care.”

Pauline Iles, Principal Risk Benefits Consultant, Quantum Advisory said: “Many small businesses feel they’re out-gunned by larger corporates on the employee benefits front but Adactus Ltd is proof that that doesn’t necessarily need to be the case.”

Katharine Moxham, spokesperson for GRiD, the industry body for the group risk protection sector, said: “Adactus Ltd is absolutely correct in putting life assurance and group income protection at the heart of their benefits package. It’s an eminently sensible approach to make them mandatory within a flexible benefits package as many employees don’t fully appreciate the true value of the financial security group risk benefits give and often overlook their importance in favour of more immediate benefits. Clearly a financial pay-out in the event of an employee’s death or absence from work is hugely helpful but the extra day-to-day support also available can be of so much assistance to staff and the business alike.”

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For further information please contact:

Sharon Mason 
SMUK Marketing and PR
smason@smuk.org.uk 
Mob: 07747 611773
Land: 01252 843350

Katharine Moxham
Spokesperson for GRiD
Katharine.moxham@grouprisk.org.uk
Mob: 07887 512508

Notes for editors

About Quantum Advisory

Quantum Advisory implemented the range of benefits for Adactus Ltd under its QChoice brand, which focuses on providing a range of flexible benefits for SMEs. Quantum Advisory builds a unique portal to host the SME’s selected benefits, manages the relationship with each provider and helps the SME communicate the benefits and builds engagement with staff.

About GRiD

Group Risk Development (GRiD) is the industry body for the group risk protection sector, promoting the value to UK businesses of providing financial protection for their staff, enhancing their wellbeing and improving employee engagement. Our membership includes insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries who have a collective wealth of experience built over years of operating in the group risk protection market. Under the chairmanship of Steve Bridger (MD Group Protection, Corporate, Aviva UK Life), GRiD aims to promote group risk through a collective voice to Government, policymakers, stakeholders and employers.

GRiD works with government departments and regulators involved in legislation and regulation affecting group risk benefits, and with other organisations involved in the benefits and financial protection arenas. GRiD also seeks to enhance the industry's standing by encouraging best practice and by participating in industry-wide initiatives such as the professional qualification in group risk managed jointly with the Chartered Insurance Institute.

GRiD’s media activity aims to generate a wider awareness and understanding of group risk products and their benefits for employers and employees.

GRiD's dedicated spokesperson, Katharine Moxham, provides expert media comment on a full range of group risk issues.

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