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Case study: Law firm D Young maintains work-life balance
D Young recognises the importance of work-life balance. For this reason, it does not provide workplace sleeping pods for staff. Jennifer Mead, HR manager at the law firm, says: "Even though we are a law firm, we would not encourage people to sleep at work. We would rather they go ...
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Case study: Axa seeks to ensure employee happiness
Insurance firm Axa offers a raft of measures to help cultivate staff wellbeing within its UK division.Sonia Wolsley-Cooper, human resources director at Axa UK, says: "I think there is a huge responsibility on both parties for wellbeing and happiness. Clearly, organisations have to accept that people spend an awful lot ...
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Case study: Jupiter Hotels finds auto-enrolment schedule hard to check out
National hotel chain Jupiter Hotels operates 26 sites under the Mercure brand in the UK.Auto-enrolment is set to have a significant impact on Jupiter Hotels and the government's initial indication it would delay staging dates for organisations employing fewer than 3,000 staff caused potential difficulties.Because of the complex make-up of ...
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Case study: Deloitte's onsite perks add up
Deloitte’s London campus has a variety of onsite facilities for staff, including a gym, a health suite with doctors and dentists, a beauty therapist, a masseuse, a physiotherapist and a variety of restaurants and coffee bars.Stevan Rolls, UK head of HR at Deloitte, says: “That package is the kind of ...
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EB Summit: CSC grounds corporate wrap in financial education
CSC focused on financial education as the basis for its corporate wrap when it was launched two years ago.Speaking in a panel debate entitled ‘Holistic approaches to workplace saving – new era or false dawn?’ at the Employee Benefits Pensions and Workplace Savings Summit 2012 on 9 March, Jenny Davidson, ...
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Case study: E.On empowers staff through financial education
Energy firm E.On has used the government-backed Money Advice Service (MAS) (see interview with Stuart Bailey of MAS) to provide various types of financial education for its workforce for around four years.Ant Donaldson, senior specialist employee benefits UK, says: “I think it is a great resource. It is very low ...
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Mouchel engineers a good deal on perks
Consultancy and engineering services group Mouchel ensures that its benefits package remains competive through effective provider management.Kate Moore, benefit adviser, says: “We use Thomsons Online Benefits for our risk and healthcare brokerage, as well as for sourcing new benefits, carrying out a voluntary benefits review at renewal, and updating us ...
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Case study: Existing DC pension scheme is fine at Thomas Miller
Thomas Miller, a boutique insurance business that manages other insurers, runs a defined contribution (DC) scheme with 340 active and 185 deferred members.Grant Lore, group pensions director, says: "A decision has been taken in principle to use the existing DC scheme to meet auto-enrolment requirements. In fact, the scheme has ...
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Brokers help Henmans lay down law to benefits providers
Strong relationships with brokers help law firm Henmans get the most from its benefits providers. The Oxford-based law firm uses brokers for its insurance benefits, pensions and employee assistance programme (EAP), but sources childcare vouchers directly.Viv Matthews, head of HR, says: “We have one main contact with our broker for ...
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Case study: Home Group opens door to staff savings through voluntary benefits
About 60% of housing provider Home Group's 4,000-plus employees have signed up to the organisation's Open Door Rewards scheme since it was launched in May 2010.The voluntary benefits programme, provided by Asperity Employee Benefits, enables all staff to access a range of perks online, including discounts and savings at major ...
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3663 seeks a culture change
Food distributor 3663 is encouraging its employees to excel in customer service as the economy struggles, says Tynan BartonAs the cost of food and fuel has risen steadily in recent years, food distribution company 3663 has faced challenges, with more to come. In the current economic climate, the foodservice firm’s ...
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Case study: Cash plan eases PMI excesses at Gallagher Heath
Gallagher Heath uses a health cash plan to cover some of the excess from its private medical insurance (PMI) scheme.Only 340 senior employees at the insurance broker and risk management firm are members of its employer-paid PMI scheme, provided by WPA via a healthcare trust. But since October 2008, all ...
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Case study: Barhale builds flexibility into health cash plan
Construction company Barhale has built a health cash plan from scratch to suit its workforce.The firm offers its 600 senior staff a private medical insurance (PMI) scheme, but it has also introduced Westfield Health's Mosaic cash plan, using intermediary PMI Health, to provide healthcare benefits for its 400 weekly-paid staff.The ...
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Case study: Kids Allowed staff get helping hand from cash plan
Last June, Cheshire-based childcare firm Kids Allowed set up an employer-paid cash plan for its 200 staff.Carla Rodgers, HR manager at Kids Allowed, says: "We do not pay sick pay, but we wanted to look after the wellbeing of our staff. It is a strenuous job."The organisation pays £1 per ...
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Case study: FirstGroup stays on schedule for pension reforms
?To prepare for auto-enrolment, FirstGroup is making changes to its pension arrangements and focusing on employee engagement.The company’s staging date is April 2013, when staff will be auto-enrolled into a new defined contribution (DC) scheme offering phased contributions which will reach 5% for both employer and employee. Until then, new ...
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Case study: Sporting challenge is a winner at John Lewis
Chris Husbands is a fitness adviser in the sports department at the Oxford Street branch of John Lewis.Specialising in large fitness equipment, he is part of a team of four who advise customers on fitness and explain how to get the most out of the store’s products.Husbands has been with ...
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Case study: McDonald's staff to serve at Olympic Park
McDonald’s Restaurants is the official restaurant of London 2012 and the presenting partner of its Games Makers volunteer programme.The restaurant chain will have four restaurants in the Olympic Park, staffed by 1,900 employees. To determine which of its 85,000 UK staff will work at the park, McDonald’s held its Olympic ...
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Case study: Mars international pension scheme has DC and DB flavours
Mars, which manufactures brands such as Pedigree, Dove and Snickers, set up an international pension scheme for its globally mobile senior managers in 2008.The scheme, based on a design incorporating both a defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) pension, is in two parts. Employees put contributions into the DC ...
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Case study: Innospec shares its success globally
Global chemicals business Innospec, which operates in 17 countries, including the US, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Hungary, offers a sharesave scheme to all eligible staff.The Global All Employee Sharesave Plan, administered by Yorkshire Building Society, was rolled out in 2010 and is designed to take account of different legislation ...
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Octopus reaches out for bikes for work take-up
?When Lisa Hamill joined marketing and PR company Octopus Group as HR director two years ago, she set out to revive the firm’s salary sacrifice bikes-for-work scheme.The company started promoting the scheme in March 2011 as the weather improved, using its intranet to explain how it worked and outline the ...