Supporting employees across a diverse, high-pressure environment comes with unique challenges.
Academic, operational and frontline roles all have different needs, making consistent support harder to deliver.
Non-desk teams often miss out, with limited access to email and intranet-led communications.
Rising everyday costs are impacting employee wellbeing, satisfaction and performance.
Existing benefits go underused, with low awareness limiting their impact.
Universities are under increasing pressure to attract and retain skilled employees.
The UK higher education sector is facing increasing pressure, balancing rising costs, reduced international student income, and growing expectations from staff and students
A single platform built to reach every employee.
Deliver flexible benefits that work for academic, operational and support roles — ensuring everyone can access value that suits their needs.
Simplify complex systems into one platform, helping your teams save time and reduce manual workload.
Make benefits easy to access and use, increasing awareness, uptake and overall employee satisfaction.
Deliver real value on tight budgets
Provide meaningful financial and wellbeing support without increasing salary costs, helping stretch budgets further.
Organisations using a unified platform can see significantly higher engagement compared to fragmented systems (often cited as up to 6×), helping maximise adoption and return on investment.
Simple, flexible solutions that support your workforce, reduce complexity and deliver real value across your institution.
Help employees manage costs today and build future financial resilience.
Discounts, cashback, salary sacrifice and savings tools.
Support healthier, happier employees.
Access to physical, mental and financial wellbeing support, alongside health services and fitness apps.
Celebrate and motivate your people.
Simple tools to recognise great work and build culture.
Real results across your institution:
The University of Salford wanted to better support employee wellbeing while offering meaningful everyday value to staff.
Pluxee helped deliver a flexible benefits platform, improving access to discounts, cashback and wellbeing support across the organisation.
Blackpool and The Fylde College
Blackpool and The Fylde College needed a simple way to deliver free meal vouchers to eligible students, including those off-site or without access to campus facilities.
Pluxee provided a digital voucher solution via Voucher Select, reducing admin and ensuring consistent student support.
Bullets:
Northern Education Trust needed a reliable way to deliver vouchers to families, particularly during periods of disruption such as school closures.
Pluxee enabled fast, digital voucher fulfilment, ensuring continued support for students who rely on free meals.
Bullets:
94% employee platform adoption
"The benefits platform at Salford has contributed significantly to my wellbeing. I like the wide variety of offers available and the selection of options, including prepaid cards, cashback, and general discounts. In a cost-of-living crisis, it’s really useful to know that we have lots of options to save even more money."
£632,581 spent by employees through the platform
"I thoroughly enjoy working with Pluxee UK; getting business done is easy and enjoyable. On several occasions, I have positioned something to Pluxee and worked collaboratively to implement a solution. They are always forthcoming with ideas to help drive engagement and open to suggestions to achieve the goal."
"Totally embraced by our people"
"I always receive positive and engaged communications from both Cameron and now Nimesh, who have been very positive and focused. We have seen great engagement levels from all employees that have taken up the scheme and it only continues to grow."
46% male uptake of wellbeing support
“Health and safety and health and wellbeing are our number one priority. Pluxee’s platform aligns with our values, with the discounts supporting financial wellbeing.”
2,000+ employees accessed wellbeing support
"This ground-breaking partnership with Pluxee UK will bring a multitude of benefits to our members and grassroots cricket within Worcestershire."
Over £8,000 cashback for members
"The cashback programme is fantastic! It feels good to earn rewards while enjoying a day at the cricket. I love that some of it goes to the Worcestershire Cricket Foundation; it makes me feel more connected to the community and the club."
190,745 vouchers ordered, with 86% redemption
"We run a complex scheme, so real-time reporting and robust account management were essential. The Pluxee solution ticked all our boxes!"
£496,400 financial support provided to eligible students
"The fulfilled via Pluxee UK option means the admin for voucher distribution has decreased massively. It also reduces the element of human error in voucher distribution. Since we have started using the new Pluxee UK platform, we can distribute vouchers quicker, which makes this better for our recipients.”
94.55% of employees actively use Pluxee Card
"94.55% Of Viridor’s employees are engaged with this salary-stretching employee benefit.”
Excellent employee feedback
"In our consumer satisfaction survey, we asked, how do you rate the quality and clarity of information provided to you by our agents? 66.18% Said “excellent!”
Fast, flexible and fully automated
"The key benefits to having a selfserve platform are, instant access to vouchers, billing on redemption (rather than purchasing in bulk), easy cancellation of vouchers, a fully automated process (no human interaction required) and instant access to data and reports.”
It combines discounts, wellbeing and recognition in one platform, driving higher engagement than standalone benefits.
Through a single login on mobile or desktop, wherever they are.
Yes, you can integrate existing benefits into the platform for a seamless employee experience.
Very easy, everything is managed in one platform, reducing admin and removing the need for multiple providers.
Yes, it focuses on everyday value like savings and simple access, so employees engage with it regularly.
Yes, it’s designed for large, diverse workforces and works across departments, campuses and staff types.
