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Paul Shires looks at the role customer service plays in helping providers to stand out from the crowd.

Professor Nick Bacon of the Cass Business School discusses the mutual gains of protecting employees and enhancing business performance.

Wellness at work: the opportunity for advisers. Lee Thurston, director at Jardine lloyd Thompson, reveals a few hard won tips on selling group protection as an employee benefit.

Marco Ferato, chief marketing officer at Unum, discusses the employee benefits market moving away from a reliance on life cover and towards addressing the risk of sickness absence.

Think Tank Demos recently called for a minimum IP proposal along the lines of pension auto enrolment. John Letizia agrees.

Unum has launched an online employer toolkit to help support employers dealing with cancer in the workplace.

A failure to tell staff about the benefits on offer is costing UK firms £2.7bn a year through increased staff turnover and sickness absence, Cass Business School research reveals.

Government should encourage greater take-up of income protection (IP) to relieve the burden on the taxpayer and Treasury and improve attitudes to the welfare state, MPs heard yesterday.

Unum has launched Sick Pay Insurance (SPI), a new group protection product to help employers and employees manage short breaks from work due to illness and injury.

Employee benefits must be overhauled as they have failed to adapt to a changing workforce leaving workers financially exposed, a report has urged.