Helping Employers Maximise the Return on Their Investment in People
Through workplace financial wellbeing, employee benefits and strategic financial planning.
Employees are one of the largest investments any business makes. Most organisations never measure whether they are receiving the maximum return. Aetas ITW helps you improve it.
We build happier, healthier and higher-performing teams — and we measure the commercial return at every stage.
No cost · No obligation · No commitment until proposal stage
The numbers behind a recent engagement
Figures from a single 85-employee engagement. Every business is different. The types of return are consistent.
Your people are your largest investment. Are you measuring the return?
Most employers invest heavily in their workforce — and rarely measure what they get back.
What you invest in
- Salaries and bonuses
- Pensions and contributions
- Employee benefits
- Recruitment and onboarding
- Training and development
- Wellbeing and support
The question
Are those investments generating the maximum return?
What Aetas measures and improves
- Employee engagement and focus
- Productivity and output
- Retention and recruitment cost
- Absence and presenteeism
- Benefits utilisation
- Employer brand strength
See what financial pressure may be costing your workforce specifically — before any conversation takes place.
Use the ROEI calculatorThe Workplace Performance Audit
A four-stage process. No cost or commitment until you decide to proceed.Every engagement begins the same way. Four short stages, light on your time, with full visibility at each point. Nothing is recommended, costed, or committed to until you have seen exactly what we propose and why. Most clients reach the proposal stage within four to six weeks.
Initial conversation
Getting to know your business
A short introductory call, supported by a brief pre-meeting questionnaire that focuses the time.
Discovery
Identifying where the pressure sits
A deeper conversation that identifies where financial pressure may be affecting performance, and what is already in place to support your people.
Options
Shaping the right approach together
We review and discuss options together, designed for your size, practical to implement, and built around your situation.
Proposal
Where you decide whether to proceed
A written proposal setting out exactly what is recommended, the costs, and the expected return. This is the first point at which commitment is invited.
No cost · No obligation until proposal stage · Full programme from £140–£165 per employee per year · See fees
What the programme delivers
The Audit identifies whether action is needed. Where it is, a three-part programme addresses the root cause, built around your organisation, your workforce, and your constraints. Each pillar is introduced only where it earns its place.
Clarity
Understanding what you have
A review of pensions, benefits, and financial support, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and spend that is not performing. Employees start to understand and value what is already in place.
Confidence
Helping employees feel financially in control
Practical financial education for employees (covering budgeting, debt, pensions, and planning), designed to feel achievable, not overwhelming. One-to-one guidance available where needed.
Stability
Ongoing support and resilience
Continued access to tools, guidance, and ongoing support. Sustains the gains and builds financial resilience across your workforce.
"We knew something needed to change, but we did not know where to start. The improvements to the pension alone justified the engagement many times over."
Senior leader, Bristol-based organisation
See the outcomes in practice
- Three pillars delivered: workshops, pension review, and ongoing governance
- Workplace Performance Audit provided at no cost to the organisation
- Two new employee benefit services introduced (Shop St and online wills) at no additional employer cost
- Pension improvements being implemented. Ongoing engagement in place.
The pressures are similar. The context is different.
The underlying challenge is the same across sectors, but what works, what fits, and what is commercially justifiable differs between a limited company, an LLP, and a larger corporate.
SMEs and mid-sized businesses
For business owners and leadership teams who see the cost but have limited appetite for overhead. Every engagement begins with the Audit. Nothing is introduced without it.
For limited companiesLaw firms, accountancy practices and professional services
When support staff are financially stressed, the cost falls on your fee-earners, in management time, talent loss, and client relationship risk. We address it without adding overhead to the partnership.
For LLPs and professional practicesA Business Performance Intervention.
Most financial wellbeing solutions are designed for large corporate employers. They rely on broad platforms, generic content, and the assumption that employees will engage independently. Uptake is low. Impact is hard to measure. The business is left wondering whether any of it made a difference. In a smaller organisation, the stakes are higher.
The Audit comes first, always
Nothing is introduced without first understanding your organisation, your workforce, and where the pressure sits. No two programmes look the same.
Commercially grounded, not sentiment-led
Every recommendation has a commercial rationale. If the numbers do not justify it, we say so. Fees are presented alongside the savings we identify.
Managed on your behalf throughout
Aetas coordinates delivery, handles employee communications, and oversees implementation. You retain full visibility without managing providers yourself.
Built for organisations where every employee matters
One disengaged person in a 30-person team is more than three percent of your entire workforce. Small organisations cannot absorb quiet underperformance the way larger ones can.
The Workplace Performance Framework
A repeatable five-stage process that turns investment in people into measurable business outcomes.
Stage 1
Measure
Workplace Performance Audit and ROEI Calculator establish the baseline.
Stage 2
Diagnose
Identify where financial pressure, benefits gaps and planning needs are affecting performance.
Stage 3
Recommend
A written proposal with clear commercial rationale. Nothing is introduced without one.
Stage 4
Implement
Aetas coordinates delivery across all three pillars — managed throughout on your behalf.
Stage 5
Measure Again
Ongoing review tracks improvements in ROEI, engagement, retention and business performance.
The next step is a short conversation. No cost, no obligation.
Book the initial conversation directly with Matthew Steiner, or join one of our upcoming sessions to hear the thinking first. Both are provided at no cost and carry no obligation.
Book a Workplace Performance Audit
A focused, no-cost conversation with Matthew Steiner to identify whether financial pressure is affecting performance in your business and what it may be costing.
- No cost and no obligation beyond the conversation itself
- You come away with clarity, whether action is needed or not
- Available by video or phone, at a time that suits you
Workplace Performance: A Leader's Briefing
A 45-minute webinar via Zoom for MDs, FDs and HR leaders on how to measure and improve the Return on Employee Investment in your organisation.
- Speakers: Matthew Steiner and Daniel Cottam
- Regular sessions throughout the year
- No cost and no obligation