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Case StudiesThe Wellcome Trust uses app to engage staff with physical activity
Photo: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome ImagesMedical research charity The Wellcome Trust has a large nine-storey building, as well as two floors below ground, at its main office in Euston, London.The charity has a wellbeing group that meets regularly to discuss how to improve the health of staff, which suggested encouraging ...
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Case StudiesAccenture UK puts wellbeing at the forefront of its culture
Supporting the health and wellbeing of its more than 13,000 employees in the UK and Ireland is a key strategy for global professional services firm Accenture, with the employer aiming to be the most inclusive and diverse organisation in the world by 2020. Tony Horan, head of human capital and ...
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Case study: employee discounts at iForce
It’s a challenge you likely face every day, “how can you enhance employee engagement and invest in your people, with minimal wage growth and limited budget?”. You’re not alone. Learn how logistics company iForce extended its benefits offering through an innovative discounts platform to show appreciation to its staff and ...
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Case StudiesTen Group offers a range of benefits on a modest budget
Controlling benefits costs is a key challenge for the Ten (Transforming Education in Norfolk) Group, a federation of educational institutions in Norfolk, employing 1,400 permanent members of staff and a further 400 casual staff. Hilary Bright, director of HR services at the Ten Group, says: "We wanted to offer a ...
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Case StudiesDirect Wines uses annual engagement survey to gauge value of financial education
Drinks organisation Direct Wines implemented a digital financial education programme for its 630 UK employees as part of its overall HR strategy. The online offering, provided by Nudge, is designed to support the attraction and retention of employees, align with learning and development opportunities, and reduce financial stress as part ...
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Case StudiesPenguin Random House keeps its total reward offering up to date and informative
Penguin Random House keeps employees informed about their total reward package through its benefits portal.The portal offers the 2100 employees at the publishing organisation access to their individual total reward statements (TRS), as well as to its flexible benefits and employee discounts schemes.The TRS show the total value of an ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Virgin Management
The workplace benefits on offer at Virgin Management include:Pension and group riskGroup personal pension plan with a minimum 1% employee contribution and 2% employer contribution. Contributions are matched on a one-for-one basis up to a 5% employer contribution.Income protection of up to 75% of salary.Life assurance for four-times salary, provided ...
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Case StudiesVirgin Management renews wellbeing focus
Virgin Management is a global organisation that has its fingers in many corporate pies; it manages and supports businesses across the Virgin Group, and is dubbed the family office for the group.On the organisation’s current agenda is the potential challenges and implications of major political events such as the European ...
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Case StudiesLinklaters raises awareness of suicide through workplace seminars
In 2016, law firm Linklaters held two seminars for employees on the topic of suicide. The first seminar was held in October and featured Michael Mansfield QC and Yvette Greenway, founders of Silence of Suicide (SOS). The couple set up the organisation following the deaths by suicide of Mansfield’s daughter ...
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Case StudiesHoliday Extras introduces new benefits strategy to align with business goals
Travel and leisure organisation Holiday Extras has introduced a new benefits strategy to align reward and benefits with its new brand image and a five-year business growth plan.Its new approach to benefits, which launched in March 2017, reflects new business branding around adventure and exploring the world in a feet-first ...
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Case StudiesRBS boosts employee motivation and engagement through its CSR approach
As part of its aim to become more efficient and environmentally responsible, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) launched a reward scheme that engages employees with its corporate and social responsibility (CSR) goals.Mike Lynch, sustainable workplace culture manager in the workplace specialist services team at RBS, says: “The bank is aiming ...
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Case StudiesRSK supports heart health and wider wellbeing through staff pedometer challenges
In February 2015, environmental consultancy RSK launched an employee pedometer challenge to encourage staff to stay active as part of Healthy Heart Month. The challenge, which saw 50 teams of five employees achieve a total step count of 62,624,561 over the course of the month, ran alongside a range of ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Holiday Extras
The workplace benefits on offer at Holiday Extras include:Pension:Group personal pension (GPP) plan, with 3% employee contribution. Employer contributes 3% for the majority of staff and 11% for directors and associate directors. Employees can contribute via salary sacrifice. All employees are eligible after they have passed probation, but must opt ...
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Case StudiesUber court ruling puts 'self-employed' status in the spotlight
Uber drivers are workers, not self-employed contractors, a UK employment court found in October 2016. The ruling in the case Aslam and Farra v Uber means the app could have to pay its drivers holiday pay, the minimum wage, and pensions, among other benefits.The employment tribunal decision found that the ...
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Case StudiesHywel Dda University Health Board helps staff fund everyday health needs
Hywel Dda University Health Board is responsible for providing healthcare services to around 384,000 people across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. It also cares about the health and wellbeing of its 10,000 employees, having introduced a Health Shield-provided cash plan in 2013 to help staff fund their everyday health needs.Andrea Thomas, ...
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Case StudiesNationwide introduces higher minimum pension contribution level to improve retirement outcomes
Nationwide Building Society updated its defined contribution (DC) group personal pension (GPP) plan to default 12,000 scheme members on to a higher contribution rate, to ensure staff access the maximum employer contribution and to help improve retirement outcomes.Following a benchmarking exercise in 2014, Nationwide found that the majority of its ...
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Case StudiesCarillion Working Mums Network gives carers a community and voice
Multinational facilities management and construction services organisation Carillion launched its Working Mums Network as an affinity group in November 2012, to create a vocal community for working mothers in the business’s UK branch as part of a wider diversity and inclusion strategy.With approximately 300 members, the Working Mums Network was ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Metro Bank
The workplace benefits on offer at Metro Bank include:Pension and group riskGroup personal pension plan. Contribution levels are set according to seniority, starting at 3% employee contribution and 6% employer contribution, then rising to 4% and 8%, with a maximum 5% employee and 10% employer contribution.Life assurance.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical ...
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Case StudiesMetro Bank engages employees with business growth through share options
Still a fairly recent addition to the high street, Metro Bank opened its first branch in 2010 and was one of the first high-street banks to open in the UK for over 100 years.Its employee base has grown steadily year on year to reach 2,700 employees, but with rapid growth ...
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Case StudiesWild Card Brewery sees the value in going beyond the minimum
Walthamstow-based micro-brewery and bar Wild Card Brewery decided to pay its staff the London living wage, as determined by the Living Wage Foundation, when the business was first set up in 2012. Andrew Birkby, one of the firm’s founders, says: “The national living wage that employers are now required to ...