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Case StudiesThe Adecco Group ensures equal gender health outcomes through staff support
Talent and recruitment firm The Adecco Group ensures that male and female staff receive equal health outcomes by positioning itself as a supportive and committed employer.The group employs 39,000 employees across 60 countries. Its benefits that support physical and mental health include private medical cover once employees have completed their ...
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Case StudiesCentral Co-op offers wellbeing support to avoid poor gender health outcomes
Central Co-op ensures all employees receive equal health provision and achieve good outcomes, no matter their gender, by supporting them through all aspects of wellbeing.The food retail, petrol filling stations, funeral services and property investment business employs around 7,400 employees. To help employees better understand and access healthcare benefits, it ...
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Case StudiesCoventry Building Society offers extensive eldercare support to staff
Coventry Building Society has formally recognised the needs of employees with caring responsibilities since 2017, when it introduced its Carers Flexibility scheme offering three days’ paid leave. Over the last few years, as well as topping this up with a further two days’ unpaid leave, it has enhanced the range ...
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Case StudiesN Family Club provides avenues of support for staff who care for elderly relatives
N Family Club runs a chain of 37 nurseries in London, the home counties and beyond. It employs nearly 1,300 people across these nurseries and in its support team, working with Rest Less to launch an over 50s apprenticeship in 2023 to help it attract a diverse workforce.As a certified ...
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Case StudiesBe.EV positions employee share schemes to retain top talent
National electric vehicle (EV) charging network Be.EV started up in 2020, and officially launched in April 2021. It has always placed the concept of employees sharing in its success at the heart of its model, initially by giving early hires an equity stake and more recently through two enterprise management ...
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Case StudiesEarth and Wheat bolsters employee engagement through sporting events
Earth and Wheat regularly uses major sporting events, such as the football World Cup or the Wimbledon tennis championships, to engage and motivate its workforce as it helps with team bonding.The sustainable grocery subscription box service that solely operates in the UK employs 20 members of staff.As a brand that ...
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Case StudiesStandard Chartered offers salary sacrifice car scheme to attract and retain staff
Last October, banking group Standard Chartered introduced a plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice scheme for all its 2,500 UK-based employees.The scheme, which is provided by Tusker, covers hybrids and EVs emitting less than 75g CO2 per km, and, has recognised how the world of work has changed ...
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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 StudiesSTR Group invests in employees to maintain health and wellbeing in the summer
STR Group believes that not only is investing in its employees and helping to maintain their health and wellbeing the right thing to do, but that it is the key to its success.The international science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent recruitment business has more than 120 employees and offices ...
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Case StudiesMoneypenny aims to keep employees happy and safe in the summer months
The key for Moneypenny is to keep its employees happy and safe in the sunnier months, while also providing them with tools to experience the best of summer and that support their health and wellbeing.The outsourced communications provider invested a lot of time in creating an environment where its employees ...
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Case StudiesHowdens provides staff with valuable retirement-planning tools
Following a review of its pension scheme and a consultation in 2020, kitchen furniture manufacturer Howdens chose to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme in 2021. Alongside this, it improved its offer to employees through the defined contribution (DC) scheme, including increasing the core employer contributions significantly and introducing additional ...
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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 StudiesRoadchef uses green benefits to empower staff to make a difference
Roadchef aims to encourage all of its employees to make a difference to the environment both locally and globally through its green benefits.The organisation operates at 30 motorway locations across the UK and has around 3,500 employees.It provides its employees with access to a corporate sustainability action platform, provided by ...
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Case StudiesRightmove provides benefits to support staff in making greener choices
Real estate property website Rightmove offers a number of benefits to help employees make greener choices both in the workplace and at home.The organisation, which has around 800 UK employees, upgraded its bikes-for-work scheme last year by doubling the allowance to £3,000. This was in response to employee feedback, which ...
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Case StudiesHow SSE engages employees to increase pension contributions
Scottish energy multinational SSE was one of the first employers to become accredited by the living pension scheme in 2023. The Living Pension savings target is 12% of a full-time living Wage worker’s salary, of which the employer pays at least 7%. With SSE contributions averaging 16%, it is clear ...
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Case StudiesCirencester Friendly Society gives employees choice over benefits
Cotswolds-based income protection provider Cirencester Friendly Society employs around 100 people across a range of roles including underwriting, claims and sales and development. Its human resources director, Mike Hazell, joined in 2021.“The organisation offered a generous range of benefits, but employees had to go through a manual process if they ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Zappi
The benefits on offer at Zappi:PensionMaster trust with 3% employer and 5% employee contribution through net pay arrangement of full earnings not qualifying earnings.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme, employer funded, for all employees.Group income protection, employer funded, for all employees.In patient and out patient care through private medical ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Zappi offers a flexible employee experience for a global workforce
Listen: From its journey as a tech start-up through to a scale-up firm, consumer insights platform Zappi has turned its focus to remaining competitive while offering an attractive employee experience. In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Tom Holliss, chief people officer, discusses how Zappi builds on its ...
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Case StudiesCentrica offers flexible benefits scheme to suit employees' needs
Centrica designed its flexible benefits scheme so that its UK employees can access perks at any time.Its flexible benefits scheme was created with five principles in mind: flexibility, choice, continuous engagement, affordability and innovation. The organisation wanted to move towards a truly flexible scheme by offering anytime benefits that allow ...