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Case StudiesAnglian Water focuses on benefits that support corporate strategy
Anglian Water ensures that the behaviours and values that are important to the organisation are woven in to its benefits strategy.The performance of the water organisation’s 4,000 employees is measured against its behaviours framework. One of the key components of this is customer service, which is underlined by the attitude, ...
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Case StudiesAviva uses share schemes to retain and engage employees
Insurance organisation Aviva uses its all-employee share schemes to retain and engage its 28,000 global employees.In the UK, the organisation’s annual UK engagement survey, Voice of Aviva, compiled in September and October 2016, found that the overall engagement score for employees who participated in one of its share schemes was ...
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Case StudiesKeolis Nottingham drives benefits engagement among remote staff with mobile app
Around 80% of the 294 employees at Keolis Nottingham, formerly Nottingham Trams, work remotely, whether as drivers, engineers, maintenance staff or roving revenue officers.Trevor Stocker, operations manager, says: “Drivers, for example, sign in, are given the keys and away they go [for] four to five hours out in the tram. ...
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Case StudiesMVF involves employees with benefits to boost engagement
Customer generation firm MVF was ranked sixth in the top 10 of the Sunday Times' Best Places to Work For list in 2017. Translating business strategy into employee benefits is critical to maintaining this ranking.Andrea Pattico, chief people officer, says: “You can have the best strategy, but if people aren’t ...
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Case StudiesMerseyrail engages employees with new benefits portal
Train operator Merseyrail offers a wide range of benefits for its employees, but a combination of low awareness levels, disparate technology systems and a highly mobile workforce meant only around 100 of more than 700 staff actually used the scheme.Andrew Parry, head of engagement and reward, says: “Our offering was ...
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Case StudiesMotability uses face-to-face briefings to educate employees on pension investments
Harlow-based mobility charity Motability uses annual face-to-face briefing sessions to educate its 119 employees on pensions topics, including available pension investment options.Currently, employees have the opportunity to self-select their own pension investment fund away from the default option out of 57 available fund options.The voluntary briefing sessions, led by the ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Siemens UK
The workplace benefits offered by Siemens UKFinancial: Defined contribution (DC) trust-based pension scheme for all employees to comply with auto-enrolment. Employer matching on a 1:1 basis, with a minimum total contribution of 3% and a maximum of 10%.Online financial education.Performance-based bonus scheme.Sales commission in relevant areas of the business.Employee share ...
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Case StudiesSiemens UK launches benefits platform to align with business digitalisation
Global technology organisation Siemens has launched a new benefits platform for its 15,000 UK and Ireland-based employees in order to align its benefits technology with the organisation’s overall business focus on digitalisation.Heike Avramovic, head of reward for UK and Ireland at Siemens, says: “It’s about culture, and the culture needs ...
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Case StudiesGoodman Masson advocates regular employee benefits communications
Goodman Masson takes great pride in its employee benefits brand and has trademarked its Benefits Boutique. It has also picked up numerous awards, including Most engaging benefits proposition at the Employee Benefits Awards 2016.Founded in 1993, the London-based recruitment agency employs 150 staff, with over 50% (85) of employees signed ...
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Case StudiesBelron UK uses feedback from line managers and staff to inform recognition scheme
Belron UK relied on employees' and line managers' feedback to design a new recognition scheme.The vehicle glass repair and replacement organisation, which owns Autoglass UK, worked with provider OC Tanner to design a new scheme based on employees’ views, which included feedback that there was not enough recognition throughout the ...
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Case StudiesSt Andrew’s Healthcare works with line managers on pay strategy
St Andrew’s Healthcare has worked with its line managers to redesign its pay strategy.The mental healthcare charity's reward team and HR business partners spoke with line managers to find out their views on the previous approach to pay, for example, what worked well, what factors were missing, and whether there ...
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Case StudiesHome Group uses a range of festive schemes to reward employees
Home Group involves its employees in a range of reward schemes during the festive period to show its appreciation of their work throughout the year.As well as decorating offices and desks, the provider of social housing, and care and support services, has held a 12 Days of Christmas event in ...
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Case StudiesScisys offers employees savings tools via workplace platform
Scisys, an IT and technology company headquartered in Chippenham, introduced a workplace savings platform, provided by Hargreaves Lansdown in April 2013. The wrap offers a range of savings and investment products to the Scisys pension scheme’s 235 members.The organisation has since seen 62% of members contributing more than the minimum ...
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Case StudiesBNP Paribas allows employees to customise group risk provision
Financial services organisation BNP Paribas offers its employees a comprehensive array of group risk products.All the bank’s UK staff get life insurance and the vast majority (80%) receive group income protection, with the exact terms of the cover varying, depending on their preferences and which of the 12 BNP Paribas ...
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Case StudiesOracle proactively supports its employees’ wellbeing with line manager support service
Technology organisation Oracle offers group income protection as a core employee benefit. In 2016, it introduced a dedicated service, branded Swift and provided by Unum, which enables line managers to support the wellbeing of employees.Michelle Bradshaw, compensation and benefits director, explains: “Line managers are often the first point of contact ...
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Case StudiesDeloitte UK uses return-to-work internships to promote gender balance
Professional services organisation Deloitte UK operates a return-to-work internship programme to support individuals back into work after a career break of more than two years.The 20-week paid internship programme, which launched in October 2015, is available for UK-based men and women who have had a career break of two years ...
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Case StudiesKPMG uses employee coaches to support staff with parenthood
Professional services organisation KPMG uses internal employee coaches to deliver face-to-face group or one-to-one coaching sessions for new parents as part of its Empowering Parents programme.KPMG launched its Empowering Parents programme for its 15,000 UK-based employees, in July 2017 to help support staff with all stages of their parental journey. ...
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Case StudiesAgeas Insurance uses a range of communication methods to engage employees with pensions
Ageas Insurance's journey to boost employee engagement with its pension scheme started back in 2013. Nick Cansfield, head of reward and policy at Ageas Insurance, explains: "We'd grown through acquisitions so there were lots of different schemes in place. With auto-enrolment approaching, we decided it would be simpler to have ...
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Case StudiesNorthumbrian Water Group uses benefits portal to increase employee awareness
Northumbrian Water Group implemented a one-stop benefits portal using single sign-on technology to increase employees' awareness of their benefits provision and understanding of what is available to them.The portal, which is provided by benefits technology firm Staffcare, incorporates the organisation's pensions, corporate individual savings account (ISA) and voluntary benefits programme.Neil ...
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Case StudiesArrow Global draws on data to shape its reward and benefits strategy
Debt management business Arrow Global has made use of three data sources to try to perfect the right mix of benefits for its staff: its online flexible benefits package provided by Aon Employee Benefits, a national pay and benefits survey in late 2015, and an organisation-wide engagement survey in mid-2016.The ...