Human Capital

Making Better People Decisions
Human Capital

Making Better People Decisions

Improve the Health, Productivity and Performance of Your People

People are an organization's most valuable asset, largest cost, and also a major source of risk— therefore, getting your people strategy right can often be the difference between success or failure.

Unfortunately, in the face of rapidly rising healthcare costs, growing retirement savings gaps, fierce competition for talent, ongoing technological change and unprecedented shifts in workforce behaviors and expectations, organizations are struggling to develop the comprehensive human capital strategies they need to compete in an increasingly volatile world.

Our Human Capital products and advisors help clients navigate today's most pressing people challenges to create a healthier, more productive, and higher-performing workforce.

Enabling Better Decisions

Faced with new and interconnected workforce challenges, human resources leaders and their teams are rapidly evolving into critical business partners tasked with advising boards of directors and senior executives on an ever-changing people landscape.

Historically, human resources functions spent 80 percent of their time on administrative or operational tasks. Today, these same teams are spending over 60 percent of their time on strategic initiatives that fall into two equally important categories.

First, there are areas of increased importance adjacent to traditional human resources responsibilities, like boosting employee engagement, reimagining employee value propositions and strengthening total rewards strategies. Next, teams face a whole new category of work that reflects the changing nature of the employee dynamic, including managing the adoption of artificial intelligence, tackling rising healthcare costs, and dealing with pay equity and pay transparency, among many other topics. All of these items, both traditional and emerging, are now high on boardroom agendas.

Our actionable analytics and connected solutions, spanning every aspect of an organization’s people strategy, help clients make better human capital decisions in these areas and more.

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Historically, HR teams spent 80% of their time on operational tasks. Today, HR teams are spending as much as 60% of their time on strategic initiatives.

Health and Benefits

Brokerage (6)

6 Solutions

We believe taking care of your people’s health, with purpose, is taking care of your organisation.

  • Accident and Health Broking

    We deliver expert broking solutions for accident and health coverage, ensuring optimal protection for your employees and cost efficiency for your business.

  • Benchmarking

    Gain actionable insights through market benchmarking to ensure your benefits remain competitive and cost-effective.

  • Pension Broking

    Our team designs and brokers pension solutions that align with Swiss regulations and your company’s long-term objectives.

  • Global Benefits

    Comprehensive global benefits solutions that ensure consistency and compliance across multiple markets.

  • Tailored Insurance Solutions

    We design tailored platform solutions for organizations, companies, and associations. Additionally, benefit from preferential rates on personal insurance thanks to our partnerships with leading local and international insurers.

  • IPM (International People Mobility)

    Specialized broking for international private medical plans, offering global coverage and local expertise.

Consulting (7)

7 Solutions

We believe taking care of your people’s health, with purpose, is taking care of your organisation.

  • Absence Management

    We help organizations reduce absenteeism and manage costs with data-driven strategies and tailored programs.

  • Benchmarking

    Gain actionable insights through market benchmarking to ensure your benefits remain competitive and cost-effective.

  • Benefit Communication

    Clear, engaging communication strategies and deliverables to help your employees understand and value their benefits.

  • Online Benefits Platforms

    In today’s digital world, organisations need a compelling online benefits experience that appeals to multiple generations and attracts and retains talent. Online benefit platforms enable companies to deliver their benefits strategy effectively with a great employee experience.

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

    Expert guidance and customized solutions to manage benefit harmonizations, cost impact assessments, and integration /separation activities during mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring.

  • Fringe Benefits / Non-insured Benefits

    Innovative solutions for non-insured and fringe benefits to enrich your total rewards offering.

  • Wellbeing Strategy and Solutions

    We create holistic wellbeing programs that support physical, mental, and financial health for your workforce.

Pensions and Retirement

Corporate Consulting (8)

8 Solutions

We offer our clients - pension funds and corporates - access to a broad range of products and services in the area of occupational pensions.

  • Broker Services

    We help companies choose the most suitable pension provider - whether a collective or community foundation - as well as the right pension model to meet their needs and those of their employees.

  • Communication

    We help companies implement effective communication strategies to highlight their existing pension solutions to employees.

  • Corporate Consulting

    We help companies navigate the complexities of occupational pensions and employee benefits with tailored solutions.

  • Financial Wellbeing

    Aon helps organizations promote employees’ financial wellbeing by analyzing behaviors, situations, and goals, and by creating targeted programs that encourage healthy habits and lasting behavioral change.

  • International Accounting

    We support applying international pension accounting standards (IAS 19, US GAAP, IPSAS 39) and provide reliable actuarial valuations and strategic advice for global companies, local businesses, and public entities.

  • Investment Consulting

    We advise employers on asset allocation, manager selection, ESG integration, and risk management. Our consultants combine local expertise with global insights to help you make sustainable, informed investment decisions aligned with long-term goals.

  • Second Opinions

    We support employers in making key decisions on pensions and retirement by providing second opinions on important technical matters.

  • Strategic Consulting

    Supporting corporations with managing their pension vehicles, managing changes, assessing adequacy of plan design and pension vehicles, consistency with compensation strategy.

Pension Fund Consulting and Services (10)

10 Solutions

Pension funds face increasingly complex decisions — from managing investment risks and ensuring regulatory compliance to improving member engagement and adapting pension models. Aon Switzerland helps navigate these challenges with tailored solutions and expert guidance.

  • Actuarial Services

    Pension actuarial services include the guidance, valuations, analysis, data analytics and other advice provided by actuarial professionals for trustees and companies.

  • Administration

    Pension administration is a service that involves carrying out the strategic decisions, record-keeping and actions required of defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension schemes.

  • Bookkeeping

    We support pension funds with accounting operations and the annual preparation of financial statements in accordance with legal provisions and applicable standards.

  • Broker Services

    We provide support in selecting the optimal reinsurance solution as well as in transitioning to a collective or common foundatoin pension solution.

  • Communications

    From enrolment to engagement, we provide expert support to help you highlight the value of your pension scheme to your employees.

  • Coordination and Secretary to the Board of Trustees

    We ensure smooth coordination of all stakeholders in managing your pension fund. As a trusted secretary or coordinator, we streamline communication, support the board, and maintain close contact for efficient processes and professional governance.

  • Investment Consulting

    We support pension funds and institutional investors with expert guidance across asset allocation, manager selection, ESG integration, and risk management.

  • Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

    Aon supports pension funds in assessing the financial implications of operations related to workforce transfers or exits.

  • Support on Legal Questions Related to Pensions

    We provide specialized legal support to pension funds, from drafting regulatory documents to guiding fund setups, mergers, and liquidations.

  • Training to Members of the Board of Trustees

    Pensions are an important and complex area. Trustees and others involved with running pension arrangements require sufficient training to enable them to fulfil their roles effectively and efficiently.

Talent and Rewards

Employee Rewards and Career Advisory Services (4)

4 Solutions

Having the right people in the right jobs at the right time is vital to business success. We partner with clients to give them the data and expertise they need to attract and retain a winning workforce.

  • Job Architecture

    Partner with our advisors to align your organisation's job roles, job responsibilities, and compensation policies to business goals and objectives via a globally consistent job architecture framework.

  • Pay Equity

    Partner with our team to complete your next pay equity audit, close pay equity gaps, and build a sustainable pay equity strategy for your entire organisation.

  • Pay Transparency

    Engage our team to make pay transparency compliance a reality for your organisation, including reinforcing job architectures, closing pay equity gaps, and meeting regulatory requirements.

  • Workforce Skills

    We work with you to develop a skill framework for a future-ready workforce strategy.

Executive Rewards and Board Advisory Services (4)

4 Solutions

We offer management teams and boards of directors the fully integrated executive compensation and corporate governance expertise they need to attract and retain amazing leadership talent.

  • Executive Compensation

    Partner with our experienced consultants to design competitive executive compensation and benefits programs to attract, incentivise and retain high-performing leaders.

  • Corporate Governance and ESG

    We work with publicly listed and private companies to address complex and routine questions and policies from boards, investors, and proxy advisory firms.

  • Equity Compensation Services

    Partner with our team to address all of your technical equity compensation needs, from plan design and communication to tax and valuation assistance to financial reporting requirements.

  • Radford McLagan Compensation Database

    Salary data and analysis, global compensation and market studies, and expert advice on rewards and benefits - all in one place.

Talent Assessment (5)

5 Solutions

Maximize your investment in people, both before and after hire, with Aon’s talent assessment offerings:

  • FAQs for Assessment Takers

    Have you been invited to complete an assessment? Here you can prepare for your Online Assessment.

  • Sustainable Manager Programme

    Empower and develop your managers to build a sustainable workforce.

  • Talent Assessment Tools and Solutions

    Use robust and reliable psychometric talent assessment tools and solutions which integrate with over 80 applicant tracking systems.

  • Talent Development and Retention

    Unlock the potential of your workforce and create an engaging employee experience.

  • Talent Selection and Hiring

    Attract, select and hire the right people by understanding skills, potential and behaviours for success.

Addressing today’s most pressing workforce challenges requires thinking beyond traditional silos.

Making Better People Decisions

At Aon, we combine our health, wealth and talent expertise to help clients accelerate their workforce strategy.

Unlocking Innovation

To thrive in this new reality, clients must be better informed through actionable people analytics and better advised through connected people solutions. By bringing our health, wealth and talent expertise together, we are unlocking innovation in the human capital space to better serve our clients through:

Actionable People Analytics and Insights

Every day, we leverage our extensive and in-depth workforce information — including world-class benefits, healthcare, retirement and rewards data — to help clients obtain the holistic human capital insights they need to optimize workforce investments. To learn more about our approach and expanding data and analytics product suite, explore our Human Capital Analytics capabilities.

Connected People Solutions

Addressing today’s most pressing workforce challenges requires thinking beyond traditional silos to develop comprehensive human capital solutions. Simply put, you can’t manage rising healthcare costs, address pay transparency, reinvent total rewards or optimize your workforce without looking across your people programs and strategy. Together, our teams help clients make these vital connections so they can identify, attract and retain the talent required to maintain and accelerate business growth in the future. 

Expertise Across Today’s Risk and People Issues

At Aon, we’ve been on a decade-plus journey to connect our global capabilities so we can address our clients’ top priorities more effectively. Through our global expertise across two key areas of need ― Risk Capital and Human Capital ― our clients are better advised within, and across, their risk and people strategies. 

All risks have a human element. From tackling supply chain disruptions to building sustainable cyber resilience to rethinking location strategies as weather patterns intensify, organizations need highly engaged and healthy workforces with the right skills to respond to and manage volatility.

By providing products and capabilities that help clients address their interconnected needs, Aon’s Risk Capital and Human Capital colleagues use the firm’s data-driven insights and solutions to enable organizations to make better business decisions and prepare them for the future.

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