2025 Aon Employee Benefits Survey, Singapore – Survey Highlights

 

The 2025 Aon Employee Benefits Survey, Singapore captured insights from over 200 organisations across more than 15 industries, representing a broad spectrum of company sizes from agile SMEs to large enterprises with over 5,000 employees. Conducted in April and May 2025, the survey covered a wide range of benefits, including life and health coverage, time-off policies, and other perquisites and allowances.

The Survey Highlights offers a high-level overview of the key findings, providing a snapshot of prevalent benefits offerings and practices across the Singapore market. It serves as a valuable first point of understanding for organisations seeking to identify trends and benchmark their employee benefits against current market standards, enabling informed decisions in shaping competitive and relevant benefits strategies.

Key Takeaways

• Core Life and Medical benefits are essential, while Disability Income and extended health benefits addressing fertility, menopause and transgender care remain low in prevalence.

Diagram 1: Top 5 and bottom 5 Life and Health benefits by prevalence.

• While Mental Health is not a common insured benefit, employers also support employees’ mental wellbeing through Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), Flexible Benefits and Wellbeing Benefits.

Diagram 2: Prevalence of mental health insurance coverage, EAP and wellbeing benefits.

• Paid Time Off (PTO), Compassionate Leave and Marriage Leave are widely incorporated into organisations’ time-off policies. Enhancements to maternity, paternity and shared parental leave beyond statutory requirements are uncommon, with fewer than 20% of companies providing additional benefits in these areas.

Diagram 3: Prevalence of core time-off benefits and enhanced parental leave.

• Flexible work arrangements and Flexible Benefits are offered by more than half of employers, indicating a strong commitment to work-life balance and adapting to evolving and diverse employee needs.

Diagram 4: Prevalence of flexible working arrangements and flexible benefits.

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