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Case StudiesBarratt offers staff financial stability with living wage commitment
British housebuilder business Barratt Developments is a member of the FTSE 100 index and currently has around 6,700 employees.In December 2018, former group HR director Rob Tansey met with investment charity ShareAction to become a voluntary real living wage employer. At the meeting, the ShareAction team agreed that the employer ...
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Infographic: Employee engagement in numbers
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Case StudiesOmnipresent engages staff through inspiring values
Formed in 2019, Omnipresent is a global employment services provider that enables businesses to employ, pay and provide support for teams across 150 countries. Last December, it had 15 full-time team members and it has just now employed its one hundredth employee. Omnipresent staff have been working remotely across the ...
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Case StudiesTesco focuses on pension scheme members' retirement outcomes
Pension scheme managers face a mountain of pressing regulatory work such as preparing data for the pension dashboards and new environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting challenges, but there is a risk that this can divert attention from the day-to-day monitoring of a scheme’s providers.Ruston Smith, non-executive chair of the ...
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Case StudiesNewcastle Building Society recognises the impact staff volunteering has on wellbeing
The mass transition to home working in March last year forced Newcastle Building Society completely to re-evaluate how its 1,300 employees volunteered and engaged with their local communities, explains strategic people partner Erin Mulligan.“Community is really central to us; it is a big part of our purpose. As a business ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Global Marine Group adapts reward strategy to support staff wellbeing during pandemic
?tynanbarton · Global Marine Group/Employee Benefits podcastListen: Paul Rose, director of HR and talent at Global Marine Group, talks to Employee Benefits about how the organisation adapted its reward strategy to place a high focus on employee wellbeing, especially during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Rose explains that the offshore engineering orgnisation ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits on offer at Global Marine Group
The benefits offered to UK employees at Global Marine Group:PensionA group personal pension (GPP) for all employees with matched contributions at 7.5%.Closed defined benefit (DB) scheme.Healthcare and group riskPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme with Axa PPP, employer-funded for all employees.Health cash plan for all employees with Medicash, employee paid.Employee assistance ...
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Case StudiesFox Agency adapts perks to hybrid working model
Business-to-business marketing firm Fox Agency has a main office in Leeds and a satellite one in London, but switched to remote working once the first lockdown was imposed.Despite initial concerns, the business has now adapted to remote working and is planning to adapt a hybrid model going forward. Al Fox, ...
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Case StudiesSerco looks to recognition awards to motivate employees
Essential public services delivery business Serco has a workforce of around 35,000 employees at 542 locations around the world, with staff working in “challenging” environments within defence, transport, justice, immigration, health and other citizen services across national, state and local government.Serco’s benefits manager Karen Bateman explains that the business is ...
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Case StudiesSage raises awareness of share schemes among staff to increase participation
Accounting software firm Sage set up a global share option plan in 2017, based on the design of the UK’s sharesave scheme. Employees can put up to £500 a month into a savings account with the option of buying shares at a discounted price, set at launch, in three years’ ...
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Case StudiesHow Essex County Council is reimagining benefits post-pandemic
Essex County Council is thinking hard about what benefits look like after the pandemic, concentrating its efforts on flexible working and wellbeing for its employees.Pam Parkes, Essex County Council’s director of organisational development and people, says: “I think there is going to be more structured hybrid working, which is what ...
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Case StudiesLanes Group supports the mental health of workforce with range of initiatives
Wastewater utility solutions provider and drainage specialists Lanes Group employs around 2,200 people across the UK. Many of its employees are in skilled manual roles, such as its jetting and excavation engineers, and the vast majority, around 87%, are male. “We have had some issues with mental health,” says Debi ...
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Case StudiesJungheinrich creates a benefits platform that offers staff value
Engineering business Jungheinrich employs 790 members of staff in a wide variety of roles and has seven sites across the UK.In order to reward staff, Jungheinrich’s assistant director of HR Jonathan Pearce worked in partnership with employee benefits platform provider Xexec to launch and manage a customised discounts platform for ...
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Infographic: Online benefits in numbers
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Infographic: Retirement planning in numbers
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Case StudiesNationwide engages employees with all aspects of retirement planning
Nationwide Building Society has just over 18,000 employees working in high street branches and in call centres throughout the UK.Ian Baines, head of pensions, people and culture at Nationwide, says:“The pension is a key part of our offering. We encourage our 16 million members to save so we want to ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Investigo closely aligns reward strategy with employee value proposition
Listen: Sarah House-Barklie, people and culture director at Investigo, talks to Employee Benefits about the global recruitment agency's reward strategy, and the initiatives it has introduced to support its employees' wellbeing during the pandemic.At a glanceInvestigo is a multi-specialist recruitment agency which deals with a number of different sectors such ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Investigo
The benefits on offer at Investigo: Pension and group riskAuto-enrolment pension scheme for all employees on completion of three months' service, with 5% of qualifying earnings minimum contribution for employee and 3% for the employer. Employees can increase their contributions.Group income protection, employer paid, for all employees after probation period.Financial ...
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Case StudiesThe Glenmorangie Company provides staff with enhanced family-friendly benefits
At the start of 2021 The Glenmorangie Company, which employs 244 people, upgraded its family-leave policy to support all new parents, whether through birth, adoption, surrogacy or any other means, during the first weeks of parenthood and to extend the same rights to paid family leave to all members of ...
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Case StudiesCooper Parry adapts benefits communications to reach a remote workforce
Accountancy firm Cooper Parry has around 400 employees, most of whom have worked from home for at least some of the time since the start of the pandemic. With the office now reopened, the firm has implemented a ‘work from anywhere forever’ policy, so communicating with a remote workforce will ...