How has employee performance been recently affected by the development of employee benefit packages?

近年来，员工福利方案一直在变化，特别是在新冠肺炎大流行以来。增加了一些奖励，并从员工那里获得了其他奖励。例如，一些组织的奖励制度减少了托儿券，而培训和灵活工作增加了。主要目标是确定当员工获得奖励时，业绩是如何受到影响的。会计师事务所的员工认为什么是奖励，以及这对他们的表现有什么影响，应该进行更多的研究。这项研究的三个目标是：确定远程工作对员工绩效的负面影响还是正面影响，确定工作日变化对员工绩效的影响，以及确定货币奖励和非货币奖励对会计师事务所员工绩效的差异。目标一将包括远程工作是否被视为一种奖励，员工在家工作时是否表现出色，以及它还将考虑在远程工作时更多地使用数字技术。第二个目标将包括实行一周四天工作制是否会提高员工绩效，或者是否应该用不同的奖励来取代这一奖励来提高员工绩效。最后，最后一个目标将包括货币和非货币奖励，以及满足员工需求以实现高绩效。所有目标都旨在确定改善员工福利待遇以提高员工绩效的技术。这项研究将在英国的会计师事务所进行。样本将包括16家会计师事务所，这些会计师事务所来自我在夏季获得的一次研究实习。将进行二次数据分析，以获得有关奖励影响业绩的背景信息。还将进行文献综述。最后，初步研究将进行如下：对会计师事务所员工进行问卷调查，并对其中一些员工进行后续访谈。问卷将涵盖研究主题的基本信息，而访谈将涵盖更深入的信息。定性和定量数据都将从初步研究中获得。对这些数据的分析将被用来向会计师事务所提出建议，使它们能够提高员工的绩效。它还将被用来概述已经提高了员工绩效的奖励，以便会计师事务所能够保留这些奖励。绩效将在整个研究过程中对照员工关键绩效指标(KPI)和培训进行衡量。

Employee benefit packages have been changing throughout the recent years, especially since the covid-19 pandemic. Some rewards have been added and other rewards have been taken from employees. For example, childcare vouchers have been decreased from some organisation's rewards systems whereas, training and flexible working has been increased.The main objective is to establish how performance is affected when employees are given rewards. More research should be conducted in what employees in accounting firms consider as rewards and how this impacts their performance. The three objectives for this research are; to determine whether performance has been affected negatively or positively through working remotely, to identify the effect the change of working days has on employee performance and, to identify the difference monetary and non-monetary rewards have on employee performance in accounting firms. Objective one will cover whether remote working is seen as a reward, whether employees perform highly when working from home and it will also consider the increase use of digital technologies while remote working. The second objective will cover whether having a four-day week increases employee performance or if there should be a different reward replacing this one to increase performance. Lastly, the last objective will cover monetary, non-monetary rewards and employee needs being met leads to high performance. All objectives aim to determine techniques for improving employee benefit packages in order to increase employee performance.This research will be conducted in UK accounting firms. The sample will include the 16 accounting firms from a summer research placement I obtained. A secondary data analysis will be conducted to gain background information on performance being impacted by rewards. A literature review will also be conducted. Lastly, the primary research will go as followed: conducting a questionnaire with accounting firm employees, with follow-up interviews with some of these employees. The questionnaire will cover basic information on the research topic whereas, the interviews will cover more in-depth information. Both qualitative and quantitative data will be obtained from the primary research. The analysis of this data will be used to make recommendations to accounting firms for them to be able to increase employee performance. It will also be used to outline rewards which are already increasing employee performance so that accounting firms can retain them.Performance will be measured against employee Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and training throughout the course of this research.