Payroll and accounting firm, Sage, has joined with employee benefits firm, Personal Group, to launch a new employee engagement product designed for the SME market. Sage Employee Benefits, which is based on Personal Group’s own platform called Hapi, is App-enabled, which means employees in client firms can access and manage their benefits directly from smartphones and other mobile devices.
Sage Employee Benefits is:
'A first-of-its-kind product to be integrated into Sage’s product portfolio, and is positioned to directly serve the nearly 16 million people who are employed in small- and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK.'
One in three people in the UK are paid using Sage Payroll, and half of businesses in the private sector use sage payroll to pay their employees.
Jacqueline de Rojas, Managing Director for Northern Europe at Sage, said:
'Benefits that were once the preserve of large organisations are now accessible and affordable for Sage 50 Payroll customers.'
Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive of Personal Group, said:
'This is a very exciting development for small businesses around the UK, as this new partnership sees our two companies launch Sage Employee Benefits to the SME market. Our functional capability developed over 32 years, coupled with Sage’s extensive market presence, is a powerful combination in order to help SMEs make their businesses better.'