Learn how Accenture builds a compelling Employee Value Proposition by offering a suite of diverse, relevant and accessible employee benefits

The approach

To support Accenture’s focus on creating a “Truly Human” employee experience that is both professionally and personally rewarding, Accenture reached out to its people to guide the initiatives. They worked with employees and an external agency to create the acronym “FRESH,” a set of principles that guides Accenture’s benefits strategy. “We want these experiences to be Fun, Relevant, Engaging, Simple and Helpful,” Randy explains. “We use those guiding principles in our benefit programs to make them highly accessible and consumable by our people.”

Accenture partnered with Reward Gateway to launch Perks At Work, a component of its benefits suite that provides every employee with 24/7 online access to discounts at over 380 national retailers on a bespoke hub that reflects Accenture’s employer brand.

“The underlying principle for the decision to launch Perks at Work was to really drive financial benefits for our people and give them options in their daily spending routine, and find ways for them to save money,” says Ondrej Lauko, Accenture’s Head of Total of Rewards for Australia and New Zealand. Ondrej explains, “When we were looking at solutions, we listed items that our people purchased on a daily or monthly basis across the whole calendar year, and looked at the savings they’d make on this program – they were substantial amounts. If you were to give every single employee that amount straight from the company, the cost would be multiple times more than what we pay for the platform where our people access those discounts. So it made financial sense to do this.”