All Case Studies articles – Page 54

  • Capital One
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    Capital One builds enticing employee value proposition

    2014-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The EVP focuses on benefits in the context of total reward. It covers the standard benefits offered by the organisation, such as private medical insurance, pensions and bikes for work, and also ensures that staff are given details about their working environment, development opportunities and health and wellbeing initiatives.Jill Cunnison, ...

  • McCarthy and Stone development
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    McCarthy and Stone uses financial education to boost pension take-up

    2014-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The revamp was driven by the fact that the group personal pension (GPP) scheme the employer had offered since the 1990s had not changed much since it was implemented. Its new scheme is a self-invested personal pension (Sipp) supplied by Hargreaves Lansdown as part of its Corporate Vantage platform, a ...

  • Karon Harrison, Withers
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    Withers ensures it offers staff engaging benefits package

    2014-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The organisation reported a 7% decline in net profit, down from £24.2 million in 2011/12 to £22.5 million in 2012/13, based on revenue of £117.8 million. Profits per equity partner also fell, from £386,000 to £370,000, over the same period, according to its financial results for 2012/13, published in July ...

  • Karen Harrison, Withers
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    Karen Harrison, head cashier, values Withers’ employee benefits package

    2014-03-01T00:00:00Z

    She used the cover for an operation to remove a cyst from her brain which was detected four years ago. “If I’d gone down the NHS route, it would have taken quite a while to get the surgery done, especially having just had a newborn baby, so it was really ...

  • Neil McCawley, Wolseley
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    Wolseley UK builds an engaging benefits offer

    2014-03-01T00:00:00Z

    Now the construction and building products distributor, a subsidiary of global organisation Wolseley, is focused on its corporate strategy, including its principles, its employees, and transforming the business to stay ahead of the competition.Neil McCawley, head of reward, benefits and policy at Wolseley UK, says: “People are one of our ...

  • Leicester city council
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    Leicester City Council’s car salary sacrifice scheme offers cost-effective benefit

    2014-03-01T00:00:00Z

    The scheme, operated by Tusker, includes motor insurance, servicing and maintenance, roadside assistance, tyres and glass, plus protection against redundancy, resignation and maternity leave .Before implementing the scheme, the organisation wanted to reduce the cost of its employee benefits, having previously offered a central user allowance for employees to travel ...

  • Lloyds global mobility
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    Lloyd’s Register to centralise global mobility service

    2014-02-26T05:24:00Z

    Selina Jones-May, head of global mobility at Lloyd’s Register, started the process in April 2013 and has been process-mapping all of the global mobility function.An integral part of the process was to obtain approval from the organisation’s executive committee by submitting a robust business case, which included models of the ...

  • Withers law firm office
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    The employee benefits offered by law firm Withers to its staff

    2014-02-25T06:00:00Z

    The law firm reviewed its benefits and providers and conducted a staff survey in 2013 to ensure staff would be engaged and enthused by the offering.PensionA group personal pension in which Withers matches employee contributions up to 5%HealthcareLife assurance is employer-funded and available at four-times salary, up to £750,000, which ...

  • East Coast Mainline benefits
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    East Coast Mainline: The benefits

    2014-02-13T05:00:00Z

    PensionsA defined benefit scheme, open to new entrants. Employees contribute 11.9% of pensionable pay and the organisation contributes 17.85%.Life assurance is available at four-times salary as part of the pension.A trust-based defined contribution scheme is available for staff who have drawn down their DB pension but continue to work for ...

  • David Thorpe, East Coast Mainline
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    David Thorpe discusses his favourite staff benefits at East Coast Mainline

    2014-02-06T05:00:00Z

    “I started on a casual basis for six months doing luggage assistance, then I applied for a full-time permanent role as a station customer services assistant, despatching trains at Peterborough,” he says.Thorpe’s favourite benefit is the bikes-for-work scheme, which is available via a salary sacrifice arrangement through the organisation’s voluntary ...

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital Morgan Stanley Clinical Building
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    Staff wellbeing underpins building design at Great Ormond Street Hospital

    2014-01-27T17:00:00Z

    The building, which opened in 2012, has seven floors, one of which is the staff restaurant, which has wall-to-ceiling glazed windows and runs along the entire length of the building.Unlike the traditional hospital set-up, there is a staff room away from the ward area, with views over Coram’s Fields, an ...

  • Nicholas Tye Architects office
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    Nicolas Tye Architects supports staff with environmentally-friendly office

    2014-01-27T17:00:00Z

    The glass box-shaped building’s stone flooring and the employer’s footwear-free office policy (staff wear slippers) helps to minimise allergies.The office optimises its air quality with a mechanical cooling system, which provides comfort cooling in summer and pre-heats cool air coming from outside in the winter. The air is filtered, providing ...

  • David Thorpe East Coast Mainline
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    East Coast Mainline keeps reward on track

    2014-01-27T05:30:00Z

    It is in the process of being re-franchised but will have to wait until October to learn which bidder from a shortlist of interested parties has succeeded. The re-franchising process will be completed in February 2015.John Hayhurst, head of HR at East Coast Mainline, aims to keep the organisation’s benefits ...

  • Atkins engineering consultancy
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    Atkins engineers a family-friendly environment for staff

    2014-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Benefits offered by Atkins that are popular among working families include flexible working, extra holiday entitlement, childcare vouchers and informal employee assistance programmes, such as networks for working families to interact with each another. The organisation won Workingmums.co.uk’s Innovation in Flexible Working Award in December 2013, and was named top ...

  • United Response pensions auto-enrolment
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    United Response took extra time to communicate auto-enrolment message

    2014-01-14T05:00:00Z

    Many of the organisation’s 3,500 employees were already in its stakeholder pension scheme, but a further 1,451 were auto-enrolled on 1 October, postponed from its staging date in July 2013.Diane Lightfoot, director of communications and fundraising at United Response, says: “We did our first briefing in April. We knew we ...

  • Emily Austin Hertfordshire County Council
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    Low-cost benefits help Hertfordshire County Council balance budget

    2014-01-06T05:00:00Z

    Like many public-sector employers, the council has had to work with limited resources after a number of budget cuts in recent years.This is against the backdrop of an ageing and increasing population in the county with complex needs, which are putting extra demands on the council’s services.Emily Austin, HR pay ...

  • Cafcass uses health cash plan
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    Cafcass uses health cash plan to cut costs

    2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Daryl Maitland, senior HR business partner at the organisation, says: “Initially, we had a look at what we were spending on the wellbeing of our staff and a couple of things we noticed were a little worrying, or things we could improve on.”For example, Cafcass was processing employees’ eye tests ...

  • Mariott Hotel pension fund choice
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    Marriott Hotels considered pension fund choice in auto-enrolment decisions

    2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

    Its staging date was April 2013, but it postponed auto-enrolling its workforce until 1 July 2013 with the help of its adviser, Berkeley Burke, which also manages the organisation’s private medical insurance and group life assurance .Sarah Newsome, manager, employment law/compensation and benefits, Marriott Europe at Marriott Hotels, says: “Fund ...

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    City and Guilds studies flex communications

    2013-12-09T05:15:00Z

    The vocational qualifications provider has three enrolment windows each year; the main one is in November, with the other two in March and July. Staff feedback has shown City and Guilds that, at present, employees are interested in tangible benefits that give an immediate value, so the organisation has focused ...

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    Towry creates default fund to help staff spread investment risk

    2013-12-04T05:30:00Z

    The organisation has mirrored the risk profile-based investment approach that it offers to private clients when looking at retirement planning for its own staff. The strategy is a mix of different asset classes.The lifestyle investment strategy Towry created is a blend of a growth-based and a managed approach, a bond ...