All Benefits technology articles – Page 78
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ArticleGatwick Airport and Tesco shortlisted for best pensions communications
Credit Suisse, Gatwick Airport, Hogan Lovells and Tesco are among the organisations shortlisted in the best pensions communications category for the Employee Benefits Awards 2018.This award celebrates employers that have implemented effective pensions communications strategies.The full category shortlist is:Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Master Trust (Entered by Aon)DAC Beachcroft, Financial Wellbeing: ...
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AnalysisIs there a role for virtual GPs in a health and wellbeing strategy?
Need to know:Virtual GP services enable employees to access medical advice online, via an app or via a telephone service.Virtual GP services registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are strictly moderated.Virtual GP services can help to reduce absenteeism and increase productivity.Over the past few years, virtual GP services have ...
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Case StudiesUniversal Music Group offers virtual GP service to all UK staff
Universal Music Group’s UK division provides a virtual GP benefit as part of its health and wellbeing strategy.The organisation, which employs over 1,300 staff across its business entities in the UK, including Capital Records, Island Records, Virgin EMI and Abbey Road Studios, launched the virtual GP service in May 2015, ...
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Article36% do not feel they are paid appropriately
More than a third (36%) of respondents believe they are not paid appropriately, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).Its UK working lives: the CIPD job quality index survey report 2018, which surveyed 350,000 employees, also found that 70% of respondents receive an employer pension ...
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AnalysisWhat can employers do to address gender pay disparity?
Need to know:Gender pay refers to the comparison of the average total earnings of men versus the average total earnings of women who work at the same organisation. This differs from equal pay, which explores whether men and women are paid the same for comparative work.Practical policy changes, such as ...
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Supplier articleWebinar: How to use benefits to connect with your employees
Watch this Thomsons Online Benefits webinar to discover how market-leading employers are using benefits and technology to create the ultimate connection with their employees!Date | Thursday 19th AprilTime | 12pm-1pm BSTSign up to our webinar to discover: What the critical elements of a market-leading UK benefits strategy areHow market-leaders are ...
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ArticleBT, Nationwide Building Society and Citi Group shortlisted for best benefits communication
BT (pictured), Citi Group, FirstGroup and Nationwide Building Society are among the organisations shortlisted in the best benefits communications, large employer category at the Employee Benefits Awards 2018.This award recognises the most effective benefits communication strategies implemented by large employers with more than 5,000 staff.The full category shortlist is:AWE, AWE ...
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Supplier articleSeven mistakes you’re making when you run an employee survey
By Joe Hart, Guest ContributorI’ve worked with dozens of companies who, despite having the best intentions, seem to repeat the same mistakes when it comes to surveying their people.Click here for seven of those mistakes, and how you can avoid them.
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AnalysisShould employers do more to encourage take up of shared parental leave?
Need to know:An organisation’s culture can influence whether parents feel comfortable requesting shared parental leave.Enhancing shared parental pay above the statutory minimum can enable parents to align decisions around childcare and parental leave more to family needs rather than this automatically falling to the parent whose employer offers better-paid leave.Case ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Registers of Scotland hosts benefits fairs for 1,000 staff
EXCLUSIVE: Non-ministerial government department Registers of Scotland has held two benefits fairs for its 1,000 employees in order to promote its new employee benefits platform, existing benefits package and new salary sacrifice benefits.The benefits fairs were held on 26 and 27 February 2018 at the department’s Edinburgh and Glasgow sites. ...
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Supplier articleHow to create your people strategy using employee feedback
By Robert Hicks, Group HR DirectorFeedback is an important part of life. Without it, our connections would be incomplete. Communicating with people is how we learn to improve things, create efficiencies or bring people closer together. The same goes for in the workplace – you need to openly communicate with ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: FinTrU hosts health and wellbeing month to promote new benefits
EXCLUSIVE: Financial services outsourcing organisation FinTrU has held a health and wellbeing month in order to promote its new employee benefits package to its 234 Belfast-based staff.The health and wellbeing month, called Febulous Challenge, was held in February 2018 to help promote the group risk and health and wellbeing benefits ...
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AnalysisHow is technology evolving benefits communication strategies?
Need to know:Employers should not be afraid to embrace new technology in benefits communication strategies.Utilising employees' personal technology, such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, can help to reach and engage a broad audience.New technology should complement, not replace, traditional forms of communicationEmployers are faced with the ever-present challenge of identifying ...
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Case StudiesSage uses data research software to drive benefits communications strategy
Sage uses data technologies to streamline its benefits communication strategy more effectively. The accountancy software organisation uses the Darwin Analytics software, provided by Thomsons Online Benefits, to enable Sage's benefits team to analyse the engagement levels and spend of its 13,000 employees. The technology also enables them to drill down ...
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OpinionMark Brill: Working smarter with artificial intelligence
There is a lot of talk, even hype, about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will take over the world. We are understandably concerned about how this technology might disrupt work or take jobs away. Some, including the late Stephen Hawking, who spoke openly about AI in an interview with ...
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Supplier articleThe crazy way a unicorn helped me create the perfect job advertisement
By Catrin Lewis, Internal Communications ManagerIt should have been simple. People recruit new team members all the time. With Reward Gateway growing in size, it was time to recruit another member to join the Internal Communications team. It wouldn’t be too hard. I wrote content day in, day out. A ...
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Supplier articleHow to showcase your company culture with themed communications calendars
By Catrin Lewis, Internal Communications ManagerWhen thinking about your employee communications strategy, it’s helpful to take a step back and look at the big picture. Whether you currently have a strategy in place, or you’re just starting out, there’s always room for improvement. Ask yourself if there are any areas ...
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OpinionSarah Thompson: Employers must prepare for no grace period post GDPR implementation
Everyone knows what is at stake regarding fines relating to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) non-compliance; up to €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is greater, but what will really happen on 26 May 2018 if organisations are not compliant?There have been comparisons between the GDPR and ...
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AnalysisIs there a need for better targeted pensions education for female employees?
Need to know:Research published by Aon in 2016 indicates that women have lower levels of financial confidence than men. This has a domino effect on how they then make decisions around saving for retirement.A pensions education programme that discusses retirement savings in relation to taking time away from work to ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: New technologies can boost employee engagement
Employee Benefits Connect 2018: Introducing new technologies into a benefits strategy can improve employee engagement.Addressing delegates at Employee Benefits Connect 2018 on Wednesday 28 February, in a session titled ‘Key technologies to engage employees with their benefits', Jon Bryant, head of online benefits and communications at Aon Employee Benefits, explained ...