Welcome to benefits at Ben!
It's really important that we practice what we preach. When it comes to benefits, we know what great looks like. We want to provide the best for our team! This is why we’ve put together a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package to support our employees during their time at Ben. Read on below to find out more.
Health & Wellbeing
Private Medical Insurance
All UK employees are auto-enrolled onto our comprehensive Private Medical Insurance (PMI) scheme with Freedom Health. The scheme is fully funded by Ben, and our team can choose to cover the cost of their family members too
Healthcare Cash Plan
Health Cash Plans are a type of health insurance that can help you budget for everyday health needs and provide reimbursements for the expected and unexpected.
You can self-fund a cover level with Medicash that suits you best and claim cash back on a variety of different treatments, including optical, dental, physiotherapy and more.
Mental health support
We take wellbeing and mental health very seriously here at Ben, funding access to leading mental health support via our partner, Oliva.
Through them, our team can access:
- 1:1 mental health support any time they need, with 6 sessions funded by Ben each year
- Content & videos on various relevant topics to support their mental wellbeing
Gym membership
Our team has the choice of two leading providers to support with their physical wellbeing:
Wellhub provides access to multiple additional apps related to wellbeing, such as Meditopia to practice mindfulness. Beyond this, they offer a tiered subscription service to access large discounts on gym memberships.
Classpass provides access to thousands of top-rated, gyms, fitness studios, salons and spas at a discounted rate. It’s a subscription-based service where employee can select a set number of credits to use every month.
Eye care vouchers
Ben covers the cost of a Video Display Unit (VDU) eyecare voucher per calendar year, to support the eye health of our team.
DNA Profiling & Epigenetic Testing
Through our partnership with Muhdo, our employees can access discounted Health Testing to support their overall health & wellbeing. This includes epigenetic & DNA testing to provide health based insights into things such as fitness characteristics, injury risks, metabolism and more.
Cancer screening
We've partnered with a global provider who offer discounted access cancer screening for our team.
This encourages a proactive approach to managing cancer — helping with education, awareness and prevention.
Lifestyle
Beniversary awards
To celebrate our team sticking around, we’ve put together some exciting gifts you can expect to receive when celebrating a Beniversary.
Travel Insurance
We’ve partnered with Crispin Spears to provide you with discounted access to travel insurance, meaning you can easily access the cover you need when taking some well-deserved time-off. Choose from the cover that works best for you, with the option to add your dependants too.
Cycle to work scheme
We partner with 3 different cycle to work providers to best support our team - covering standard road bikes, e-bikes and bike sharing programmes. They each offer salary sacrifice schemes to split the cost of a bike and benefit from tax savings. Choose from Cyclescheme.co.uk, DASH rides, or Cyclesaver.
Tech scheme
Our Techscheme means that our team can make savings on their tech and home products — including laptops, phones, smart health, white goods, gaming and more. They can spread the cost over a 12 month period via Salary Sacrifice.
EV scheme
We’ve partnered with 2 leading providers to make it easier for our team to lease an electric vehicle. Both Tusker and Octopus offer Salary Sacrifice EV schemes which allow our employees to spread the cost of their lease and make a tax saving — plus the added bonus of reducing their carbon footprint!
Retail Discounts
Our employees can access thousands of unique employee discounts across our UK and DE based partners. These discounts cover a range categories - from household appliances, to restaurants & groceries
Climate support
We've partnered with Furthr to make it easy for our team to do their bit for the planet. This means using their Ben Flex allowance to contribute to climate projects such as forest restorations and more
Work from anywhere
Flexibility is at the heart of how we have built our benefits. In support of this, our team also has the option to work from anywhere for up to 3 weeks, twice a year.
Buy / sell holiday
Alongside the 28 days annual holiday allowance, our team also the option of buying or selling up to 5 days of holiday each year to best suit their needs.
Family
Parental Leave
We want to support you as best with can with key life moments. As part of this we offer above statutory paternity leave for all employees, and above statutory maternity leave for UK employees.
This means, dependent on tenure, up to 18 weeks paid for birthing parents or those taking primary parental leave, and up to 8 weeks paid for those taking supporting parental leave.
Assisted reproduction
It’s really important to us to support our employees undergoing IVF or other medical procedures as part of assisted reproduction.
We provide up to 3 days paid leave per treatment cycle for those undergoing treatment, as well as access to discounted fertility information and education via our partnership with the IVF Network.
Nursery scheme
We partner with Enjoy Benefits to support parents with nursery costs, providing huge savings off our employees’ nursery fees via the Salary Sacrifice scheme. Any children up to the age of 5 can be covered, and you can use the benefit at a nursery of your choice.
Life Insurance
Life insurance helps gives families financial protection if the worst were to happen whilst someone was working with us. It allows our team to leave behind an amount of money to help their loved ones if they were to pass away.
Through our partnership with Aviva, Ben funds 1x payout of your salary, with the option to voluntarily increase this cover too.
Elder care
Through our partnership with Curam, our team can access up to 30% discounts on Elder Care and find a carer their family will love.
Curam also provide access to webinars & workshops to provide emotional support when needed too.
Finance
Ben Allowance
All employees receive a monthly Ben Allowance, to spend flexibly on whatever they want, wherever they want!
The starting allowance is £100, and increases with tenure up to a maximum of £250 per month by their 3rd year at Ben.
L&D Support
All Ben employees have an annual leaning & development allowance to support with growth in their role. This could be for a training course, content subscription, or professional coaching sessions via our partner Oliva.
We also provide 3 days of paid study leave each year to support the team on their learning journey.
Equity
Our equity compensation programme is designed to align the interests of our team with the long-term success of Ben. We want our team to have a stake in Ben that is valuable today and will be much more valuable in the future — this means that all employees receive equity based on their role and level, so we all own what we build together!
Season Ticket Loan
As a predominantly hybrid workforce, we offer a Season Ticket Loan to support with spreading the cost of travel. This means benefiting from annual ticket discounts, and spreading the cost out for our team.
Financial education
We know that education is a key part of financial wellbeing, which is why we’ve partnered with the following providers:
Octopus Money provides 1 free coaching session for our team, plus further discounted access to a full 1:1 financial coaching plan.
Money Guided is a financial management app that promotes a better understanding and sense of control over your finances
All UK employees are auto-enrolled onto our comprehensive Private Medical Insurance (PMI) scheme with Freedom Health. The scheme is fully funded by Ben, and our team can choose to cover the cost of their family members too
We take wellbeing and mental health very seriously here at Ben, funding access to leading mental health support via our partner, Oliva.
Through them, our team can access:
- 1:1 mental health support any time they need, with 6 sessions funded by Ben each year
- Content & videos on various relevant topics to support their mental wellbeing
Social
Ben Buddies
To help encourage the team to spend time together, we provide a monthly Ben Buddies allowance for all employees.
We use a Slackbot to randomly match up colleagues across the business, and can then use our Ben Buddies allowance to get to know each other over a coffee or some lunch.
Team Socials
We have an awesome team and really value spending time together outside of work. To support this, every team has a quarterly budget to spend on doing something fun — this could be anything from a team dinner, to Go Karting!
On top of this, we host an after-work get together at our London office every other Thursday. We encourage the team to come together for things like a trip to the pub, quiz night, sports day and more.
Ben Bites
Once a week, we provide a funded lunch for our in-office team. Employees can access a budget via JustEat and spend some time together over their favourite meal