We’ve all heard it said that a business’ most valuable assets walk out the door every night. But while every employee makes a valuable contribution to your business, the reality is that most businesses rely on just a few high performers and key decision-makers to win new business and deliver the high quality service your customers expect.
So it’s important to ask yourself how your business would cope if one of those key people suffered an unexpected illness or injury that took them away from your business for an extended period — maybe even permanently.
The costs can be substantial. A 2014 report from Oxford University Business College found that it costs more than £30,000 (around $61,500) to replace an average employee, including recruiting costs, lost output while the replacement gets up to speed, and time spent recruiting and training a new worker.[1]
And that’s just an average employee. The impact of losing a key person can be many times greater. One recent academic study found that a high performer delivers 400% more value than the average performer.[2] Which means that unless you protect yourself, the loss of a key person could potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, severely affecting the performance of your business as a whole, and perhaps even putting your long-term survival in jeopardy.
That’s where Keyperson insurance comes in. Keyperson insurance protects your business from the financial impact of the death or permanent disability of an employee vital to your organisation, combining Life, Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) and Trauma cover in a single policy. The aim is to safeguard the value of vital business assets — the people who keep your business running from day to day.
The essential difference between Keyperson insurance and standard Life cover is that on the death or disablement of the specified employee, it pays a benefit to the business, rather than the insured person or their family. That gives you the valuable funds to offset the impact of lost business and the costs of recruiting and training a suitable replacement.
In summary, Keyperson insurance helps to underpin profitability and business continuity when the unexpected happens.
Planned Life are business risk specialists, providing Keyperson and Buy/Sell (Partnership) Insurance advice tailored to our clients’ business needs.
If you’d like to find out more about the benefits of Keyperson Insurance contact your Planned Broker or Planned Life on 02 8456 7806
[1] Oxford Economics, The Cost of Brain Drain, February 2014.
[2] O’Boyle and Aguinis, “The best and the rest: revisiting the norm of normality of individual performance”, Personnel Psychology, Vol 65, Issue 1, pp 79–119.
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