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Case StudiesPCA Predict engages staff through a tailored approach to benefits
Employee engagement is an important focus for Worcester-based technology firm PCA Predict, and one way it is looking to achieve this is through the use and delivery of employee benefits.The organisation, which provides address e-commerce validation technology for customers such as Tesco, Dow Jones and Disney, employs more than 55 ...
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Case StudiesTSB channels inspiring leadership to engage employees
TSB has built its employee engagement strategy on the values of directness, honesty and authenticity. Hari Miller, head of internal communications and community engagement, works closely with Paul Pester, TSB’s chief executive, to keep employees informed and engaged with the organisation.TSB has seen some tumultuous times. It separated from Lloyds ...
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Case StudiesFletchers Solicitors embeds core values in benefits strategy to engage staff with business goals
Over the last two years, Fletchers Solicitors has grown from 90 employees to more than 340. To support this growth and engage staff with the organisation’s values and goals, Fletchers has defined its core values and developed a reward and benefits strategy that embodies and celebrates these.The law firm has ...
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Case StudiesVisualsoft focuses on employee happiness via online survey
Web development organisation Visualsoft uses a number of ways to measure employee engagement. The main method is an online weekly micro-survey. This allows its 220 employees to anonymously answer questions set by the business. The questions measure employee feedback across nine main areas: communication and transparency, company 360, culture, personal ...
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Case StudiesAstellas cascades CSR communications through its workforce
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 ...
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Case StudiesDS Smith puts employee health at the heart of its business
Corrugated and plastics packaging manufacturer DS Smith believes that investing in its employees is as vital to the business as innovations in equipment. With more than 3,000 employees in its UK packaging division, the organisation recognises that in order to be a preferred partner of choice among its customers, it ...
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Case StudiesAstellas reflects CSR policy through charitable giving
Astellas promotes its corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy by offering its 400 staff the opportunity to donate money to charity as they earn and volunteer for community projects. Employees also fundraise towards the organisation's own foundation, the Astellas European Foundation, as well as its chosen corporate charity.The pharmaceutical firm also ...
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Case StudiesGoodman Masson attracts talent with supportive benefits
A central part of this is its Mortgage Fund, into which staff can contribute as much as 20% of their salary each month for three years, with the firm then adding a further 33% of the total. For staff who also put in their bonus, the employer contribution is even ...
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Case StudiesArup employees engage with group risk benefits
The organisation feels that providing protection for its employees is necessary to protect the business.It offers four different types of group risk cover: life assurance at four-times salary, income protection, critical illness insurance and personal accident insurance.Evan Davidge, head of reward at Arup, says: “We have a moral responsibility to ...
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Case StudiesMerseyrail drives business engagement through voluntary benefits
The train operating company introduced its staff discount scheme, ‘Benefits for you’, five years ago with Personal Group. While employees have access to offers including cinema vouchers, holiday discounts and reloadable cards, the organisation uses the scheme as a way of driving employee engagement and increasing discretionary effort.Andy Parry, head ...
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Case StudiesB&Q keeps reward simple
Simplification has been at the heart of B&Q’s HR strategy over the past year as part of the organisation’s efforts to help staff understand and appreciate the value of their benefits and, ultimately, to boost take-up. The move is aligned with B&Q’s business objective to simplify its pricing model in ...
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Case StudiesCafcass restructured benefits team to aid engagement
Until around two and a half years ago, 80% of the employer’s benefits resource was focused on employee relations, which dealt with case work, discipliniaries and sickness absence. But the structure was inefficient in resolving employee issues and resulted in the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills ...
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Case StudiesNCFE focuses on flexibility in benefits package
The transfer will have a direct impact on the benefits taken up by staff at the organisation, which was formerly known as the Northern Council for Further Education.Michelle Sharman, HR manager at NCFE, says: “We are a growing organisation, which brings its own challenges. We are moving from a city ...
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ATS Euromaster re-engages staff through change programme
Five years ago, the organisation was making a financial loss, so newly-appointed group HR director Irene Stark was tasked with helping the business return to profit. “We decided that the best way to do this, and to make sure that any sort of change was sustainable, was to do it ...
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John Lewis Partnership offers staff sports and social activities
And so a sailing club was set up to enable the average employee to sail a boat.The sailing club still operates today and is the most popular club offered by the retailer. The partnership owns its own yachts and pays for their upkeep, an investment the organisation has made as ...
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Case StudiesMcDonald's Restaurants built on motivation
McDonald’s incentivises and supports these desired behaviours through two bonus schemes for its 400 company-owned restaurants.Each month, all employees in the top 10% of restaurants, based on mystery shopper scores, receive a bonus. In addition, restaurant managers are eligible for a quarterly bonus based on three equally weighted measures: mystery ...
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RSA involves staff in benefits to boost take up
Ed Airey, UK reward manager, says the journey reflects the organisation’s progression from providing a benefits package that is just there for staff to find, and if they find it, then they use it, to one that better understands what employees want.“Also, it is understanding better some of our different ...
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Case StudiesPeer 1 Hosting offers perks to attract top talent
A benefits package that attracts and retains the most talented staff while reducing employee costs is at the core of web hosting provider Peer 1 Hosting’s reward strategy.Designed primarily by managing director Dominic Monkhouse, the package has remained the same since the organisation’s UK operations started up in 2009.“I think ...