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

近年来，特别是自2019冠状病毒病疫情以来，雇员福利待遇一直在变化。增加了一些奖励，并从员工那里拿走了其他奖励。例如，一些组织的奖励制度减少了儿童保育券，而增加了培训和灵活工作，主要目的是确定给予雇员奖励对业绩的影响。应开展更多的研究，了解会计师事务所的员工认为什么是奖励，以及这如何影响他们的业绩。本研究的三个目标是：确定绩效是否受到负面或正面的影响，通过远程工作，以确定工作日的变化对员工绩效的影响，并确定会计师事务所的员工绩效上的差异货币和非货币奖励。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，以及远程工作时数字技术的使用是否增加。第二个目标将包括是否有一个四天工作周提高员工的绩效，或者是否应该有一个不同的奖励取代这一个，以提高绩效。最后，最后一个目标将涵盖货币，非货币奖励和员工需求得到满足导致高绩效。所有目标的目的是确定技术，以改善员工福利包，以提高员工的业绩。这项研究将在英国会计公司进行。样本将包括16家会计师事务所，这些会计师事务所来自我获得的一个暑期研究项目。将进行二次数据分析，以获得有关受奖励影响的绩效的背景信息。还将进行文献综述。最后，本研究的主要内容包括：对会计师事务所员工进行问卷调查，并对部分员工进行访谈。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。将从初步研究中获得定性和定量数据。对这些数据的分析将用于向会计师事务所提出建议，以便他们能够提高员工绩效。它还将用于概述已经提高员工绩效的奖励，以便会计师事务所可以留住他们。绩效将根据员工关键绩效指标（KPI）和整个研究过程中的培训来衡量。

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.