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Case StudiesMid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust ensures its benefits provision meets staff needs
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust looks after more than half a million people each year in their homes, in the community and across its three hospitals. To deliver this service it employs around 10,000 people, working in roles from administration and cleaning to nursing. Alongside a defined ...
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Case StudiesCo-op builds its financial wellbeing strategy on employee feedback
Co-op believes a strong financial wellbeing strategy is about more than products and services, and that employees should be supported to make great decisions.The retailer, which operates almost 2,400 food stores, more than 800 funeral homes and provides products to more than 6,000 other stores, including Nisa Retail, employs 56,000 ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Brewers Decorator Centres
The benefits on offer at Brewers include:Pension A group personal pension (GPP) plan for all employees, with a 4% employee and 5% employer contribution. If employees want to contribute 5% then Brewers will contribute 6%.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme for senior employees, employer paid.Virtual GP.Health cash plan, employer ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Brewers Decorator Centres makes employee wellbeing a high priority
Employee Benefits · Employee Benefits/Brewers podcastListen: Brewers Decorator Centres ensures its benefits proposition is designed to support all employees in all areas of their lives. In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Jane Clifford, people director, shares her views on how benefits should both help to make people’s everyday ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Aldermore Bank
The benefits on offer at Aldermore Bank:PensionA group personal pension (GPP) plan with salary sacrifice arrangement for all employees. Employee/employer contribution levels are 3%/6%, 4%/8% and 5%/10%.Group riskLife assurance, employer paid for all employees at four-times salary, with the option for employees to flex up at their own cost to ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Aldermore Bank ensures its benefits proposition supports financial wellbeing
Listen: This episode of the Employee Benefits podcast shines a light on how Aldermore Bank has embedded its organisation’s purpose in all of its operations and ensures this is apparent within its reward strategy. Its purpose is to support people to ‘go for it’ in life and business, and ...
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Case StudiesSchuh ensures inclusivity with financial wellbeing support
Schuh ensures its financial wellbeing support is offered to all of its employees, whether they work remotely, in store, or in its head office, to maintain inclusivity across all teams.The fashion footwear retailer has 124 stores in the UK, Ireland and online, and employs around 4,000 people across the UK ...
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Case StudiesFutureheads supports financial wellbeing with targeted benefits
Digital and technology recruiter Futureheads provides employees with a range of benefits and guidance to help them through any financial pressures.Prior to the cost-of-living crisis, the London-based living wage employer already offered its 30 employees financial-related benefits such as a health cash plan, a season ticket travel loan, a technology ...
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Case StudiesBenefits on offer at Egress
The benefits on offer at Egress:PensionsDefined contribution pension scheme, with 5% employee contributions and 4% employer contributions.Group riskLife assurance at four-times salary.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme, employer paid for all employees following probation. Employees have the option to add cover for a partner or dependents through salary deductions.Employee ...
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Case StudiesHays addresses the gender pensions gap
Passionate about financial wellbeing, global recruitment firm Hays provides employees with back-to-basics roadshows and webinars to explain pensions terminology in a more straightforward way in order to combat the gender pensions gap.It has offices in 33 countries and 13,000 employees across the world. Of these, 3,500 are based in the ...
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Case StudiesAdecco Group prioritises agility for its total reward strategy
Over the last 18 months, Adecco Group’s total reward strategy has needed to be relatively agile to address the needs of its employees during the cost-of-living crisis.The group has three global business units, Adecco, Akkodis and LHH, which cover talent and recruitment, and digital and engineering solutions. It employs 39,000 ...
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Case StudiesAvison Young explores employees' financial needs to maximise set budget
Avison Young ensures it understands the needs of its employees when deciding on what financial support to offer.The global commercial real estate firm has more than 100 offices in 15 countries, and employs 5,000 employees worldwide and 1,500 in the UK.Its financial wellbeing package includes initiatives such as a group ...
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Case StudiesHCRG Care Group provides financial wellbeing for employees' evolving needs
Health Care Resourcing Group (HCRG) Care Group offers employees a diverse range of measures to support their financial wellbeing and to meet their evolving needs.The UK health and care services provider employs more than 5,000 members of staff, including nurses, carers and head office desk workers.In response to the cost-of-living ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Gripple's employee ownership model helps to build engagement and motivation
Employee Benefits · Gripple podcast interviewListen: In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Katrina Ritchie, people and culture director at Gripple, discusses how the organisation's employee-ownership model helps to build engagement and motivation among staff.Ritchie discusses the benefits that come from operating this model, especially those that cover employee ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Northwood Hygiene Products focuses on staff wellbeing
Employee Benefits · Northwood Hygiene Products podcastListen: Manufacturing, supply chain and transportation firm Northwood Hygiene Products has more than 800 employees working in various locations across the UK in diverse job roles.In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, HR director Dawn Roberts discusses how the organisation supports the wellbeing ...
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Case StudiesHousing 21 refreshes benefits in the cost-of-living crisis
Credit: Housing 21Now that many workplaces are au fait with talking about mental health and the menopause, is money management the last stigma?Ian Hodson, director of people and culture at Housing 21, says: “It is the last taboo. People still won’t talk about their finances.”In a cost-of-living crisis, this stigma ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Nominet's total reward approach supports employees' needs
Employee Benefits/Nominet podcast interviewListen: In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Beverley Hamblet-Bowes, director of HR at Nominet, talks about how the organisation takes a total reward approach to benefits, and how it ensures that it is fair and consistent among all employee groups.Hamblet-Bowes explains that Nominet's aim is ...
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Case StudiesOxford University Hospitals deploys multiple methods to communicate financial support
In order to effectively communicate financial wellbeing support to its wide range of employees, UK NHS teaching trust Oxford University Hospitals uses a variety of methods to suit their needs and preferences.The trust is made up of four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, the Churchill Hospital, the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, ...
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Case StudiesUniversity of Salford targets communications at specific employee groups
Credit: Richard Oldroyd / Shutterstock.comThe University of Salford ensures it provides comprehensive financial wellbeing support and education that is targeted at all different groups of employees.Based in Greater Manchester and with 3,000 employees, the university was a runner up in the Best financial wellbeing strategy at this year’s Employee Benefits ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Emcor UK
The benefits on offer at Emcor UK:PensionContract-based group personal pension (GPP) plan, the Group Flexible Retirement Plan.Healthcare and wellbeingEmployee assistance programme for all employees, employer paid.Occupational health, employer paid.Health Assessment or screening, available through flexible benefit scheme.Private medical insurance for certain employee levels.Health screening for certain employee levels.York Test home ...