Employee Discounts

A good, well rounded and well implemented employee discounts programme should spearhead every integrated voluntary benefits programme. The rationale is simple : employee discounts are easy to understand, easy to use and about as universal as an employee benefit can get.

Universality is interesting. An employee discount scheme will not get 100% take-up, in some organisations if communications are tricky it may do well to reach half of that. But, interestingly, neither will a final salary pension scheme. The reasons for this are complex, grounded in human behaviour and worthy of further analysis. What we do know is that where voluntary benefits are concerned, an employee discount scheme is about as universally liked and used as a benefit can get. Everyone who works in your organisation is eligible, everyone who works in your organisation shops for products and services as part of their daily lives. And nearly everyone is interested in making a saving or spending less on goods and services, as long as we can make it easy.

Making it easy - now there's the rub.

Making it easy is critical, and we work really hard on the design and navigation of Reward Gateway to enable users to find what they want as easily as possible. Our website is W3C compliant, our Helpdesk is Minicom enabled for the hard of hearing and we have long opening hours of Monday to Friday 0800-1900 and on Saturdays from 1000-1600 so we can help with everything from a forgotten password to an order for some discounted gift vouchers.

We're all different. We like to shop in different ways.

A successful voluntary benefits scheme is not just about the range of offers in the scheme, it's about the range of ways you allow your staff to access the savings. The key thing to making your employee discount scheme accessible is to try to provide discounts to your staff, however they like to shop. Making it easy is about making it flexible.

If you provide your staff with a range of options for obtaining discounted goods and service, they will use the ones that match their lifestyle and personal preferences. Our pioneering use of Cashback technology enables us to offer a huge range of online offers and we also have a great portfolio of discounts and vouchers available by phone.

So what sort of discounts and benefits are available?

There are a huge range of discounts and benefits on all aspects of shopping and services. The best way to see the range on offer is to request an Employers Information Pack. It comes complete with VIP access to our Employers Demonstration Website so you can browse and evaluate the whole scope of our offering.

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Asperity Employee Benefits Ltd is registered in England at 90 Westbourne Grove, London. W2 5RT. Registered company number 05696250. Telephone 020 7229 0349.

Asperity Employee Benefits provides the UK's largest staff discount product designed for easy integration into an employer's existing employee benefits package. The level of staff discounts available is higher than in any other employee benefits scheme in the UK. Combined with the biggest range of staff discount providers, Asperity offers employers maximum value from their investment in employee benefits. Level of employee discounts and the number of participating suppliers offering an employee discount are key factors in driving usage of a staff discount scheme. Asperity delivers market beating results on both the level of staff discount and the number of suppliers offering an employee discount, ensuring high value payback for employers.