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  • SAS Software
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    The benefits offered by SAS Software

    2016-06-01T14:58:47Z

    The workplace benefits offered by SAS Software:PensionDefined contribution (DC) stakeholder plan for all employees as a core benefit.Employer contribution levels are 6.5% for up to two years' service, 10% for over two years.Minimum employee contribution of 2.5%.Employees with more than two years’ service can choose to reduce their employer contribution ...

  • Chris Carter
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    SAS Software offers choice and support to staff

    2016-06-01T14:15:00Z

    For SAS Software, a key component of its benefits philosophy is that it offers its employees choice to enable them to pick benefits that support them throughout their career, while retaining a sense of being a paternalistic employer.Its UK headquarters, situated on a 110-acre estate on the bank of the ...

  • June B&CE
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    B&CE grows benefits package in line with its culture

    2016-05-26T08:00:34Z

    B&CE was founded in 1942 as a simple way to help construction workers build up holiday pay. It branched out into offering other financial products, such as pensions. However, it is in the last few years that the business has seen its workforce grow, fast.When the government decided to introduce ...

  • Curzon PR
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    Curzon PR develops benefits offering based on employee feedback

    2016-05-26T08:00:20Z

    Farzana Baduel, managing director at Curzon PR, has always been entrepreneurial. She founded her PR firm, Curzon, in 2009, in part because with a one-year-old child, she wanted the flexibility to balance work with the school run.Baduel’s business grew slowly for the first two to three years. She had previously ...

  • Oracle
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    Oracle uses group risk data to inform wellbeing strategy

    2016-05-24T15:48:17Z

    At technology firm Oracle, the use of data is key to enhancing group risk provision for the organisation and boosting the benefits and workplace wellbeing strategy for its UK employees.Michelle Bradshaw, compensation and benefits director UK, Ireland and Israel, says: “The data that can be drawn from things [such as] ...

  • Employer profile - TalkTalkWEB
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    TalkTalk gets the message across on total reward

    2016-05-23T13:42:50Z

    Telecommunications organisation TalkTalk introduced a total reward strategy in 2011. As part of the exercise, it introduced banding to achieve clarity and alignment across different sections of employeesSam Kirk, reward director at TalkTalk, says: “We brought all our benefits together at the same time and with great visibility. It helps ...

  • Police Mutual
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    Police Mutual engages staff with loan offering

    2016-05-16T12:24:47Z

    Police Mutual, an organisation that offers financial services to police and military employees and their families, gives its 500 employees access to competitive loans through Neyber, a service where monthly repayments are deducted straight from their pay packet.Since introducing the scheme at the beginning of 2015, around 5% of the ...

  • RWE NPower
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    RWE NPower’s flex strategy uses data to help scheme evolve

    2016-05-11T15:35:46Z

    Energy firm RWE NPower soft-launched its flexible benefits scheme in November 2013 as part of its work on its employee proposition.The organisation was aware that it needed to increase engagement among existing employees and give a more compelling proposition to attract new talent into the business. Reward was part of ...

  • Holiday Extras
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    Holiday Extras built flexible benefits scheme on employee input

    2016-05-11T15:33:30Z

    The strategy behind Holiday Extras’ flexible benefits scheme has largely been driven by employee input and feedback.Prior to launching its flex platform, My Extras, in 2012, the travel firm asked employees what they wanted from a platform and which benefits they would like to see. Anouk Agussol, head of people, ...

  • KPMG
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    KPMG raises awareness of eating disorders with wellbeing events

    2016-05-09T12:00:43Z

    Accountancy firm KPMG employs more than 13,000 staff across 22 locations in the UK. It is committed to supporting its employees and set up its Be Mindful Network in May 2015 to help improve mental health across the organisation. Jessica Carmody, head of Be Mindful at KPMG, says: “We run ...

  • Travis Perkins Group - Store
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    The benefits offered by Travis Perkins

    2016-05-04T14:17:23Z

    An overview of the workplace benefits offered by Travis Perkins:PensionDefined contribution scheme, master trust – contribution levels vary according to seniority level and length of service. A salary sacrifice option is available.Legacy defined benefit schemes.Healthcare and wellbeingEmployer-paid private medical insurance according to seniority, and also available as a voluntary benefit.Employer-paid ...

  • Travis Perkins - Paul Nelson
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    Travis Perkins unifies its benefits offering

    2016-05-04T14:10:32Z

    Travis Perkins, which employs approximately 30,000 people across the UK, operates according to its five core values, known as cornerstones: upholding family values, keeping people safe, working for its customers, being the best, and making decent returns. The latter does not merely refer to financial returns, but also to the ...

  • Bibby Financial Services
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    Bibby Financial Services looks to total reward proposition to help it stand out from the crowd

    2016-04-29T13:21:26Z

    Bibby Financial Services achieved 31st place in the 2016 Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list, moving up 19 places from its 2015 ranking. This is the fifth time that the organisation has ranked in the top 100.The organisation, which employs approximately 780 people in the UK, shared ...

  • Goodman Masson
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    Goodman Masson receives external recognition for its innovative approach

    2016-04-29T13:18:58Z

    Over the last few years, financial recruitment organisation Goodman Masson has received a significant amount of external recognition for its workplace culture, reward strategy and its innovative approach to employee engagement, including first place in Great Place to Work’s UK Best Workplaces 2015, medium category.Goodman Masson engages its 150-strong workforce ...

  • John Lewis Waitrose
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    John Lewis Partnership works to ensure benefits add value

    2016-04-29T13:15:24Z

    For the John Lewis Partnership, employee benefits are one of a number of elements that have helped to establish its reputation as a great place to work. The organisation encompasses John Lewis and Waitrose, and all of its 90,000 members of staff are partners in the business.Rachael Abbott, benefits development ...

  • Astellas
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    Astellas cascades CSR communications through its workforce

    2016-04-29T11:46:42Z

    Pharmaceutical firm Astellas communicates its corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy through presentations to its people managers, who can then cascade updates and information to their colleagues as they see fit. It utilises posters, banners and messages on plasma screens throughout its offices to make sure it is highlighted to its ...

  • Withers
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    Withers lives CSR values through benefits portal and staff volunteering

    2016-04-29T11:43:55Z

    When Withers enhanced its benefits portal, provided by Staffcare, in December 2015, it made its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme a prominent part of the carousel on the flexible benefits page.The international law firm communicated annual salary increases and bonus payment updates to its UK employees by moving away from ...

  • Alphabet
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    Alphabet sees the benefits of staff involvement in motivation strategy

    2016-04-27T15:55:54Z

    Fleet vehicle business Alphabet encourages staff to help shape its social and motivation initiatives through what it calls Alphabet Proactive Experts, or APEs.Clare Witty, employee engagement manager, explains: “They are essentially volunteers from across the whole [organisation] and they’re my ears on the ground. We have a blackboard that staff ...

  • Coventry University
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    Coventry University supports employees’ financial wellbeing with education programmes

    2016-04-27T15:12:26Z

    Coventry University refreshed its financial education programme to help support employees with their financial understanding and also promote awareness of the organisation’s total reward package.In June 2015, the university introduced pilot financial education workshops in response to a number of factors: employees were taking more interest in their own financial ...

  • Centrica
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    Centrica considers whole family experience to support carers

    2016-04-25T12:09:14Z

    Utility firm Centrica, which owns British Gas, is one pioneer in the field of eldercare.Alison Hughes, Centrica’s head of HR policy and diversity, says: “Historically, we had a family leave policy that was focused on childcare: maternity and paternity.”While still focused on making parents’ lives easier, Centrica decided to look ...