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EBCam Employee Benefits and Rewards Survey

Thank you for participating in the EBCam Employee Benefits and Rewards Survey. Please complete your answers to the questions below.

Please complete the form all in one go, as partial responses are not saved.

This is a rolling survey and we look forward to sharing the first round of results with participants in early summer 2022.

Your company and benefits overview - Section 1 of 9

- First Name*
- Last Name*
- Company*
- Email Address*
- Job Title*
- Postcode (registered address, or where the majority of your staff pre-pandemic would usually work from) *
- Industry Sector*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Number of UK staff*
- Do have staff outside of the UK?*
- Number of staff outside the UK*
- How are any global employee benefits managed? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Which countries do you employ people in?*
  Please list
- Is ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) important to your business?*
- Does your company have clear environmental objectives for the next 10 years, for example to become net zero?*
- Please outline your plans*

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Working Week and Holidays

- How many hours is a full-time working week? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- Where do your staff tend to work from?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- How many days holiday are given in a standard full-time entitlement (excluding bank holidays)? *
- Can days be carried over if unused?*
- If yes, how many days can be carried over?
- Can days be bought or sold? *

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Income Protection, Life Assurance and Critical Illness - Section 2 of 9

- How many weeks fully paid sick pay do you offer? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Do you offer an Income protection /Group PHI scheme? *
  PHI is Permanent Health Insurance, which is another name for Income Protection
- Who is the provider?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- What is the eligibility? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What % of salary is payable?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above *
- After how many weeks does the benefit become payable?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above *
- At what age does the benefit terminate? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- For how long does this benefit pay out for?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- Do you offer a Group Life Assurance / Death In Service scheme? *
- Who is the provider?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- What is the eligibility? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What is the amount of benefit/multiple of salary? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What salary do you use to calculate the benefit? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- At what age does the benefit terminate?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- Is the policy under a master trust? *
- Is there an excepted (non-pension trust) scheme available for some members (high earners/individuals with lifetime allowance pension protection)? *
- Do you offer Critical Illness cover?*
- Who is the provider?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What is the eligibility? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- Is this a voluntary or employer funded benefit?*
- What benefit do you provide? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Please enter the amount below if your benefit is based upon a fixed monetary amount*
- At what age does this policy terminate?
  *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above

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Your Health and Wellbeing benefits - Section 3 of 9

- Do you offer Private Medical Insurance?*
- Who is the provider?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What is the eligibility? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Who does the company pay for? *
- If you do not fund for the whole family, is there an option to add partner/family at the employee's cost? *
- What is the excess on the policy?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- What is the underwriting basis? *
- Do you offer Dental Insurance?
  *
- What is the eligibility? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Is there an option to add partner/family at the employees cost? *
- Do you offer a Health Cash Plan? *
- Who is the provider?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above
- What is the eligibility?
  *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What level of cover do you fund?*
- Is there an option to add partner/family at the employee's cost? *
- Is the PMI Excess reclaimable on the cash plan?
  *

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Business Protection - Section 4 of 9

- Do you have Keyperson Protection in relation to key employees, to help protect the business? *
- Do you have Shareholder Protection?*

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Benefits Platforms and communication of benefits - Section 6 of 9

- Are your benefits provided via a broker or direct with the insurer? *
- Do you offer benefits on a platform?*
- If yes, what type of platform?*
- What platform do you currently use? *
- Does the platform offer access… *
- How long have you offered benefits via a platform? *
- Do you offer a flex fund? *
- Is this a percentage of pay or a monetary amount?*
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Please enter the amount below*
  Please state whether the amount entered is a perctenage of pay of monetary amount
- What do you like most about offering your employees a flexible benefits platform? *
- Please enter your answer below if "something else" has been selected above*
- Is there anything you don’t like about flex? *
- Please expand on what you don't like about flex*
- If you don't currently offer a flex platform, would you like to introduce a flexible benefits platform? *
- Are all your benefit renewal dates aligned to one common date? *
- How do you promote your benefits? Select all that apply *
  Email
  Benefit portal
  Posters
  Flyers
  Social media
  Group Presentations
  Drop in sessions
  We do not currently promote benefits
  Other (please specify)
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Do you promote your benefits to new joiners? *
- Are your benefits promoted on your recruitment page of your website? *
- Do you provide Total reward statements? If so, how? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Do you pay your employees overtime? *
- If yes, has this changed because of the pandemic? *

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Pensions and Financial Education - Section 7 of 9

- Who is your defined contribution Pension Provider? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- What is the type of pension scheme? *
- What is the minimum contribution your employees are required to make, as a percentage of their pay? *
- Is there a maximum employee contribution?*
- Please enter the amount below if you have a maximum contribution
  Please enter the amount as a percentage figure
- What it the minimum employer contribution you pay, as a percentage of pay? *
- What is the maximum employer contribution you pay, as a percentage of pay?*
- Do you offer a matched contribution structure? *
- If yes, please enter the details below*
- Do you offer different pension contributions for different groups of employees? *
  For example, higher contributions for senior employees?
- If yes, please enter the details below*
- What definition of pay do you use to calculate pension contributions? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Do you offer Salary sacrifice for employee pension contributions? *
- Do you offer employees the opportunity to sacrifice some or all of their bonus to pension? *
- When offering salary sacrifice what do you do with the employers National Insurance saving? *
- How much is the Annual Management Charge %? *
- Is there an annual governance review of the scheme? *
- Do you know if any ESG and/or Green/ethical investment options are available under your pension plan? *
- Do members engage with the pension? *
- Do you host pension presentations for employees? If so, how frequently? *
- Do you think the pension meets the business and members' needs? *
- What percentage of employees have opted out of the pension scheme? *
- Are you confident the scheme and administration meets the Auto Enrolment rules? *
- What do you do for individuals who may be impacted by the reduced Annual Allowance (either Tapered Annual Allowance or Money Purchase Annual Allowance)? Select all that apply *
  Nothing
  Cap contributions at the Annual Allowance – no additional cash is paid
  Cap contributions at the Annual Allowance – however, additional cash is paid in lieu of contributions above the Annual Allowance
  Cap contributions at the Annual Allowance – however, a Payroll ISA is available for contributions above the Annual Allowance
  I do not know about the Tapered/Money Purchase Annual Allowance
  N/A – we not have any employees with contributions above the Annual Allowance
- Do you offer your employees financial education sessions? If so, how? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Do you offer independent financial advice or guidance/education as a benefit to your employees? If yes, who pays for this? *
- Please enter your answer below if "other" has been selected above*
- Do you offer more than one company pension scheme? *

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