Paul Avis: Group risk insights - advising smaller companies

There were 5.7 million businesses in the UK in 2017, according to the House of Commons' Business Statistics - and more than 99% of them were classed as small or medium-sized, employing from zero to 249 people. The need to offer employee benefits appears important if not essential if firms want to stand out from peers in the ever more competitive employment market. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who often do not have their own human resource (HR) department, researching, setting up and managing benefits for employees is a time-consuming task. This SME marketplace present...