Benefits
Technology that drives engagement
Helping employers create more visible, connected and engaging employee experiences.
Turn your Employee Benefits into a more engaging employee experience
Most organisations already invest significantly in employee benefits. The challenge is helping employees find, understand, value and use them.
At Mattioli Woods, we combine leading employee benefits technology with consultancy, communication expertise and ongoing support to help employers create a more engaging, more effective and easier-to-manage employee benefits experience.
Because technology should support your benefits strategy. Not dictate it.
Why employee benefits often fail to deliver their full value
Employers invest heavily in pensions, healthcare, wellbeing support, insurance and reward programmes. Yet many employees remain unclear about what’s available to them or how to access it.
Benefits are often spread across multiple providers, communications can be inconsistent, and HR teams are left managing fragmented processes and systems.
As a result:
- Valuable benefits can be underutilised
- Employees may not recognise the full value of their benefits package
- HR teams spend excessive time on administration
- Employers struggle to measure engagement and return on investment
Employees may overlook support that could make a practical difference, while HR and Reward teams are left with a more fundamental question: is the benefits proposition working as a coherent part of the employee experience, or simply existing as a collection of individual products? Technology can help solve these challenges, but only when it is implemented as part of a wider benefits strategy. That’s where Mattioli Woods can help.
Technology is only part of the solution
There are many employee benefits platforms available. What makes the difference is how effectively technology is aligned with your workforce, business objectives and employee needs.
That is why we have selected Zest as our preferred employee benefits technology partner. Combined with Mattioli Woods’ consultancy and support, the platform helps employers deliver a more connected, engaging and measurable employee benefits experience.
We begin by understanding your organisation, your people and your objectives before configuring technology around your requirements. Not the other way around.
Turn employee benefits into a daily employee experience
Employees don’t think in terms of providers, schemes or administration systems. They simply want easy access to the benefits and support available to them.
Our employee benefits technology creates a single digital destination where employees can access and engage with their benefits in one place. From pensions and healthcare to wellbeing initiatives and reward programmes, employees can view and understand the value of their benefits through one connected experience.
The platform also enables more personalised and targeted communications, helping employers move beyond simply offering benefits towards actively driving engagement. Because benefits only create value when employees use them.
An extension of your HR team
Managing employee benefits can be time-consuming. Multiple providers, disconnected systems and manual administrative processes often place unnecessary pressure on HR and Reward teams.
Through integration, automation and centralised administration, our technology solution can help simplify benefit management and reduce operational complexity. But our support doesn’t stop at implementation.
Mattioli Woods can provide a fully supported managed service, helping with:
- Platform implementation
- Configuration and onboarding
- Benefits administration
- Employee communications
- Reporting and management information
- Ongoing optimisation and support
This allows your HR team to focus more time on your people and less time on administration,with Mattioli Woods acting as a seamless extension of your team.
Make better decisions with meaningful insight
A successful employee benefits strategy should evolve alongside your workforce. Technology provides valuable insight into employee engagement, benefit utilisation and communication effectiveness. The challenge is turning that information into action.
Our consultants help employers understand what the data is telling them and identify opportunities to improve engagement, increase utilisation and maximise the value of their investment.
We can help answer important questions such as:
- Which benefits are employees engaging with most?
- Which benefits may require greater awareness?
- What communications generate the strongest response?
- Are different employee groups engaging differently?
- Where could benefits investment deliver greater value?
- The result is a strategy built on evidence rather than assumptions.
Better technology. Better outcomes.
The most successful employee benefits strategies combine the right technology with the right expertise. The technology gives you the infrastructure to deliver a joined-up benefits experience, our consultants make sure it is implemented with purpose. We help you define requirements, configure the platform, coordinate integrations and align every digital journey with your wider reward and people strategy.
Through our partnership with Zest, Mattioli Woods helps employers create a more connected,engaging and measurable employee benefits experience.
We bring together leading technology, strategic consultancy and ongoing support to help employers:
- Increase employee engagement with benefits
- Improve communication and understanding
- Reduce administration and complexity
- Gain meaningful workforce insight
- Maximise the value of their benefits investment
Because technology alone doesn’t transform employee benefits. The right technology,supported by the right expertise, can.
One connected approach. Better outcomes for your people and your business.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Why has Mattioli Woods selected Zest?
After reviewing the employee benefits technology market, we selected Zest as our preferred technology partner because of its flexibility, employee experience and ability to integrate with existing systems and providers. This enables us to configure technology around each client’s specific requirements.
Can the platform integrate with our existing HR systems?
Yes. The platform is designed to integrate with a wide range of HR systems, payroll solutions and employee benefits providers. We work with clients to determine the most appropriate integration approach based on their existing arrangements.
Can Mattioli Woods manage the platform on our behalf?
Yes. We offer a managed service proposition that can include implementation, administration,employee communications, reporting and ongoing support.
How does employee benefits technology improve engagement?
By bringing benefits together in one place, employees are more easily able to find, understandand access what’s available to them. Combined with targeted communications and meaningfulinsight, employers can encourage higher levels of engagement and utilisation.
Is this suitable for organisations that already have benefits in place?
Absolutely. Many organisations already offer excellent benefits. The platform helps make those benefits more visible, more accessible and easier for employees to understand and appreciate.