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InterContinental Hotels Group invests in global employee engagement
Staff seen as vital link in hotel chain InterContinental Hotels Group puts its money where its mouth is and, this year, invested $10m (£5.4m) in a global employee engagement programme.David Anderson, vice president of global brand innovation, headed the project, which involved 140 hotels in some 69 countries."A couple of ...
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University Hospitals of Leicester offer staff in-house emergency childcare
Employees at the University Hospitals of Leicester have access to three on-site day nurseries that can help with emergency childcare. As the nurseries operate on around 80% capacity, there is always the chance that a place can be offered on an emergency basis and staff are able to see if ...
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Npower keeps close check on employees' engagement levels
Electricity firm Npower regularly checks its workforce's engagement pulse with surveys and focus groups. The utility firm surveys the entire company once every two years and polls sample groups every quarter. Jon Cowell, head of learning and development, says: "Questions are a mix of standard items to track engagement, mainly ...
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Standard Life's flex scheme mirrors its changing workforce
Having implemented flex in April 2006, Standard Life is aware of its changing workforce demographics and is working to keep flex as popular in the future as it is today.Bearing in mind the gradual shift in the age of its workforce, the financial services company is looking to understand which ...
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Cedar Communications finds flex scheme success
Contract publishing firm, Cedar Communications introduced a flex scheme for its 90 employees in 2003.The scheme offers a range of benefits, including life cover, income protection, pension scheme, medical and dental cover, and lifestyle benefits.Tracey Jakimovski, HR manager, says: "A favourite is the option to buy and sell holiday. We ...
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Buckinghamshire County Council employee values its flexible working policies
Claire Street, a democratic services officer, has worked at Buckinghamshire County Council for around five years and is responsible for writing up committee minutes and advising on issues such as cabinet member decisions. She particularly values being able to work from home and working flexibly outside the core office hours ...
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Employer profile: Buckinghamshire County Council
In attempting to become a top employer, clear goal setting and accountability will become key to Bucks County Council's strategy, says Vicki Taylor Article in fullChange is afoot at Buckinghamshire County Council. The arrival of Gillian Hibberd, corporate director, organisational development and HR, from neighbouring Hertfordshire County Council in November ...
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John Lewis Partnership's profit based annual bonus
For the past 10 years, John Lewis Partnership has paid an annual partnership bonus of between 9% and 22% of annual salary.The bonus is based on profits for the trading year beginning each February, and is determined by the organisation's partnership board. After any capital is held back for reinvestment, ...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has introduced a pilot emergency childcare system
Professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers introduced a pilot emergency childcare scheme for staff in five of its offices in May 2006. The pilot, which is running for an initial 12-month period, provides staff in London, Birmingham and the East Midlands, Manchester and Edinburgh with access to five free days of emergency ...
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BT believes in flexible work
Case study: BTTelecommunications firm BT is a great believer in flexible working arrangements, with around 12,000 of its staff working from home and over 10,000 dividing their time between their home and the office.Dave Wilson, head of employment policy at BT, strongly believes that employees are empowered via this flexible ...
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British American Tobacco offers flexible benefits through salary sacrifice
Case study: British American TobaccoBritish American Tobacco (BAT) operates its flexible benefits scheme, Free2, through salary sacrifice. While holiday trading is the most popular benefit on offer, with about 10% of participants buying extra days and another 10% choosing to sell entitlement, the perks package also includes a wine club ...
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Employer Profile: McDonald's
Article in fullLove it or hate it, there is no ignoring the McDonald’s brand. Since the foundations for the McDonald’s Corporation were laid in the US in 1948, more than 28,000 restaurants have been opened worldwide, of which at least 1,000 are in the UK.In recent years, however, the fast-food ...
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BT favours flexbile working
Telecommunications firm BT is a great believer in flexible working arrangements, with around 12,000 of its staff working from home and over 10,000 dividing their time between their home and the office. Dave Wilson, head of employment policy at BT, strongly believes that employees are empowered via this flexible approach ...
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Asda keeps staff in the loop over shares
Asda's sharesave scheme is one of its employees' most valued benefits. For this reason, Mike Hazelgrave, reward manager, believes it is vital that nothing detracts from this.Staff are warned, for example, that share prices can go down as well as up, but this is done in a way that won't ...
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Coda replaces pension scheme with salary sacrifice group personal pension plan
Coda, the business software company, replaced its three trustee-based pension schemes with a salary sacrifice group personal pension plan in April 2006 ahead of the company' s demerger with its SciSys division in September. Dave Belmont, group company secretary, said salary sacrifice allowed the company to increase the contributions it ...
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John Lewis Partnership offers childcare to staff
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has offered childcare vouchers since April 2005. It has recently added a feedback facility for the scheme to its intranet for John Lewis and Waitrose staff.Gill Bowler, implementation manager of benefits projects at the partnership, says the feedback forum has revealed that employees are generally ...
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Childcare on offer at Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK tested childcare vouchers on a pilot group of 12 staff in April 2005 after the tax and national insurance exemption on vouchers up to £50 a week was introduced. The tax-exempt limit has since been raised to £55 and the charity now offers the benefit to all ...
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Rugby Football League offers health perks to staff
The RFL is the governing body of Rugby League in the UK, and administers 450 clubs and 40,000 players. It employs 85 staff that referee, administer and help develop the sport.The RFL offers a private medical insurance policy, an employer-paid LHF healthcare cash plan and a bikes-for-work scheme. About 90% ...
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Employer profile: Transport for London focus on occupational health
Transport for London staff can find themselves subject to verbal and physical abuse from members of the public. Couteracting this forms part of a raft of occupational health initiatives, says Jamin RobertsonArticle in fullMalfunctioning trains, broken down buses, signal failure, and unexplained delays are par for the course for users ...
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Employer profile: Henkel
Integrating staff packages using perks has become an art form for acquisition-hungry consumer goods firm Henkel, says Amanda Wilkinson.Article in fullAcquisitions of new businesses and product development are part of life at Henkel, a global consumer goods business and the manufacturer of brands such as Schwarzkopf, UniBond, Loctite, Sellotape and ...