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Case StudiesPetroplan launches enterprise management incentive to drive engagement
In April 2022, global talent acquisition specialist Petroplan Group launched an enterprise management incentive (EMI) scheme in the UK, with an equivalent share option scheme for its non-UK offices, giving its 80-strong workforce an opportunity to build an ownership stake in the business.The move is designed to help drive productivity, ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: GB Bank creates unique benefits proposition as a new organisation
tynanbarton · GB Bank/Employee Benefits podcastPhoto credit: Tom BanksListen: Specialist bank GB Bank faced the challenge of growing and creating its benefits proposition against the backdrop of the pandemic, following its launch in 2017. However, focusing on its employee value proposition during such a tumultuous time meant that it could ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by GB Bank
Photo credit: Tom BanksThe benefits on offer at specialist start-up bank GB Bank are:Pension and group riskA master trust offering an 8% employer pension contribution and 3% employee.Death-in-service benefit at four-times salary.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance for all employees, employer-paid.Monthly one-to-one coaching sessions.Headspace subsciption. Work-life balance or family-friendly policiesFlexible-working policy ...
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Case StudiesCloudsoft showcases company culture through accreditation
Software provider Cloudsoft has experienced accelerated business growth over recent years, now employing 34 members of staff, and is continually looking for fresh talent to join the team. In the current challenging job market for the UK technology sector, this means taking a proactive approach and making sure the business ...
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Case StudiesLove Energy Savings quickly adapted to hybrid ways of working
When the Covid-19 pandemic first started, the team at Love Energy Savings, a price comparison website for businesses, was concerned. As an organisation which in large part consists of call centre employees, how could it possibly embrace remote working?These days, the 289-strong organisation sees hybrid working as a superpower. How ...
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Case StudiesRoyds Withy King provides compassionate and bereavement leave to support staff
Royds Withy King is a top 100 UK law firm based in London that employs 550 members of staff. The organisation has a compassionate and bereavement leave policy to support its staff when they need it most, whether that is to assist a close relative who is seriously ill, emergency ...
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Case StudiesHackajob backs employees looking to help Ukrainian refugees
Technical talent marketplace Hackajob has 85 employees, with 45 in the UK and the remaining 40 in Iasi, Romania. The office there is on the border with Moldova, and around 100km from Ukraine.When the war started, it became clear that many people in the Romanian office were involved in helping ...
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Case StudiesITM switches to master trust to ease burden and boost engagement
Independent data consultancy ITM switched from a group personal pension (GPP) to a Cushon master trust in January 2021.Hilary Chapman, head of HR at ITM, says: “We previously had a GPP and were looking to move from our previous pension provider because of issues with administration and lack of member ...
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Case StudiesCare provider Elder uses reward package to attract talent to the sector
Attracting and retaining talent is a key part of care provider Elder’s strategy, both for its own employees and the 5,000 self-employed carers who find work through its platform. It set out to disrupt the market when it launched in 2015.Pete Dowds, CEO of Elder, says: “Care isn’t well incentivised ...
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Case StudiesSalesforce puts health at the heart of hybrid working
Customer relationship management organisation Salesforce employs 75,000 people globally including several thousand in the UK and Ireland across a variety of customer-facing and global shared-services roles.Looking after all aspects of their health has always been important. Terri Moloney, senior director, employee success, at Salesforce, says: “We have a very diverse ...
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Case StudiesM&C Saatchi gets support message across to carers
In January this year global marketing firm M&C Saatchi introduced a programme of support for the carers among its workforce, including young adults.The organisation employs around 700 people in the UK and has partnered with childcare provider Bright Horizons to deliver the initiative nationwide.Annabel Mackie, managing partner at M&C Saatchi, ...
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Case StudiesLogistics firm Europa relaunches organisational values to staff
Logistics organisation Europa has several organisational values that it believes are central to the way in which it treats employees, and what it expects in return. These include key principles such as driving out complexity, acting reasonably, creating a family spirit, and allowing people to ask so-called ‘dumb’ questions.The values ...
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Infographic: Employee experience in numbers
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Case StudiesReboot creates a glow with a four-day week
For Naomi and Shai Aharony, co-founders of online marketing business Reboot, the pandemic brought about a huge change in mindset.“We both came from very demanding jobs at American [organisations] where to leave your desk before 8pm was looked at in disgust,” says Shai.However, enforced home working during the lockdowns led ...
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Case StudiesK2 drives sustainability through electric vehicle scheme
With sustainability a key focus for employee relocation firm K2 Corporate Mobility, electric vehicles were an obvious area to explore when the business sought to add to its benefits package.Andrew Hayward, chief financial officer, who oversaw the project, says: “We wanted to do something that would support our employees financially ...
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Infographic: Future of work in numbers
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Case StudiesLaw firm TLT embraces ESG through electric vehicle scheme
In April 2021, law firm TLT launched an electric vehicle (EV) scheme as part of its employee benefits package via a salary sacrifice arrangement. Since then, the organisation, which employs 1,200 people, has seen a steady flow of orders.Maria Connolly, head of clean energy and real estate, and executive board ...
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Case StudiesThe Landmark London offers future-focused wellbeing and engagement support
The Landmark London is a five-star hotel based in central London that employs 300 members of staff.To encourage wellbeing and engagement among employees, the business offers a wide variety of initiatives that aim to suit everyone, whatever their circumstances happen to be.Nicola Forshaw, director of human resources at The Landmark ...
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Case StudiesTall Group of Companies ensures staff feel valued and recognised for their efforts
The Tall Group of Companies specialises in secure print and payments solutions including cheques, electronic payment processing and election ballot papers. It employs 135 people across its three sites in Runcorn, Hinkley and Lisburn, in roles ranging from manufacturing to IT systems development and software creation.The pandemic significantly affected the ...
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Case StudiesHays structures benefits provision to meet employee need
Hays keeps its benefits portfolio under constant review, with an extra focus throughout the year on finessing the offering ahead of the annual opening of the recruiter’s benefits portal every November.When she first joined the organisation, group head of reward Rosemary Lemon spent some time organising its employee benefits into ...