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Chiswick Park helps staff get active
Chiswick Park hosts wellbeing programmes throughout the year to encourage activity among 8,000 employees that work across various organisations in the park, which include Paramount Pictures, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Tullow Oil and Walt Disney Company.Between June and September 2015, the business park hosted wellbeing events as part of its Enjoy Work ...
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Asda moves to segment motivation
Retail-chain Asda currently has a one-size-fits-all motivation strategy for its 175,000 employees, but it is hoping to offer more diverse options in the future.It uses its annual employee engagement survey, Your Voice, to find out more about what its employees want and need in terms of benefits and motivation. In ...
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UKTV works together to motivate employees
Television broadcaster UKTV operates according to its philosophy of working together to create a better organisation and in line with its set of values: create, learn, influence, challenge and collaborate.Keeping its 279 employees highly engaged has been vital to the organisation’s success, and its incentive and recognition schemes have helped ...
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Alstom uses exercise challenge to improve staff health
Engineering firm Alstom UK and Ireland, which employs more than 2,500 people in a variety of manual and office-based roles, identified it was facing potential health problems as a result of an ageing workforce.Claire Sallis, occupational health and wellbeing manager at Alstom UK and Ireland, says: “We wanted to encourage ...
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PCA Predict offers share scheme to motivate staff
PCA Predict provides address validation technology used on e-commerce sites, for customers that include Tesco, Dow Jones, and Disney. The organisation, which has offices in Worcester and New York, and employs over 55 members of staff, offers an enterprise management incentive (EMI) scheme.The EMI scheme was chosen as a way ...
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BMT Group offers employees automated pensions advice
Having moved from a defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) scheme in 2011, maritime engineering business BMT Group wanted to ensure its 780 UK employees were able to develop a sound retirement strategy.The business initially considered bringing in a financial adviser but was introduced to the concept of ...
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Boston College reduces absence with health cash plan offering
Boston College offers a health cash plan to all of its 450 employees, irrespective of their level of seniority or the number of contracted hours they work. Its health cash plan, provided by Westfield Health, has helped to reduce staff sickness absence rates by 28%; employee absence rates for the ...
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Peel Ports uses salary sacrifice arrangements to support staff
Peel Ports Group offers its 1,000 employees several benefits via salary sacrifice to support them in both their work and personal lives. These include its contributions to its stakeholder pension scheme and childcare vouchers.Its most popular benefits offered on a tax-efficient basis are pension contributions, which 90% of its workforce ...
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Domestic and General offers employees a well-rounded benefits proposition
For Domestic and General, a key aim of its benefits proposition is that it is well-rounded enough to support its diverse employee base.Its holistic approach ranges from enhanced pension contributions and free flu jabs for all employees, to long-service awards and even mindfulness colouring books. Kay Mellor, head of HR, ...
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The benefits offered by Domestic and General
A summary of the workplace benefits offered by Domestic and General:PensionA group personal pension for all employees, with a 3% employer contribution for all staff, and matching or enhanced employer contributions based on seniority.Employer-funded independent financial advice for all employees.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance: employer-paid on a seniority level, with ...
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Starbucks to extend national living wage rate to all staff and offer London premium
All employees working in Starbucks UK-owned stores are to be paid at least the national living wage rate of £7.20, including apprentices and those aged under 25. The coffee chain’s all-employee approach to the new rate of pay will benefit more than 4,500 staff members.From April 2016, baristas’ base pay ...
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Danwood introduces national living wage for all employees ahead of April deadline
Print and document solutions firm Danwood introduced the national living wage rate in January 2016, three months ahead of the statutory implementation date set by the government. Although the £7.20 hourly rate is only mandatory for those aged 25 and over, Danwood has established the national living wage as its ...
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Vodafone supports global employees via tracker app
Mobile communication provider Vodafone uses International SOS to help protect staff based overseas and travelling on business. The business uses the TravelTracker app and security and medical services, says John Bernard, senior security manager, personnel and asset protection at Vodafone.“[We] can get 24/7 support in most languages,” he explains. “I ...
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Evraz offers share plan to Russian employees
Steel, mining and vanadium business Evraz offers employee share plans to its 105,000 employees in Russia, Ukraine, the US, Canada, the Czech Republic, Italy, South Africa and Kazakhstan.In Russia, the organisation has offered a long-term incentive plan (L-tip), administered by Computershare, since 2012. Employees are able to access details of ...
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Landmark turns to genetic testing to engage staff with fitness and nutrition
In September 2014, Landmark Information Group teamed up with British cyclist Jess Varnish to engage its approximately 400 employees with health and fitness through a week-long cycling challenge, collectively cycling the distance from John O’Groats to Land’s End on exercise bikes.To coincide with the initiative, Landmark offered staff the chance ...
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Instacart broadens its benefits offering with subsidised genetic testing
US online grocery delivery firm Instacart added genetic testing to its benefits offering in October 2015 when it signed up to the Color Genomics Breast Cancer Pledge to mark Breast Cancer Awareness month. The organisation subsidises 50% of the cost of the test, which analyses 19 genes, including BRCA1 and ...
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Knight Harwood embraces auto-escalation
Construction firm Knight Harwood’s group personal pension scheme started with a contribution basis of 3% and 3% and introduced the concept of auto-escalation, through what it calls the Pension Increase Pledge (Pip). This gives members the option to commit to increase their pension savings by 1% each year for a ...
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The benefits offered by Amey
A look at the benefits offered by Amey:PensionsGroup personal pension scheme for all employees.Pension contributions offered via salary sacrifice. Employer contribution of 1% to 14% based on grade.Healthcare and wellbeingEmployee-funded private medical insurance (PMI) for all employees.Subsidised gym membership.Health cash plan.Dental insurance.Statutory eyecare vouchers scheme.Bikes-for-work scheme.Group riskCritical illness insurance.Personal accident ...
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Amey develops its benefits offering as it continues to grow
Public services provider Amey connects its employee benefits strategy with its culture and values in order to motivate and engage staff, as well as educate them about the organisation.Staff appreciationIts employee recognition scheme, provided by Red Letter Days for Business, helps drive awareness of the organisation’s values and objectives: achieving ...
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Allpay encourages breaks away from technology
Technology is a key part of the working day at payments specialist Allpay. The organisation, which employs around 300 people, provides a range of services, including bill payment, prepaid cards and cashless payment systems. Ensuring staff take regular time away from technology, therefore, is actively encouraged throughout the organisation.Steve Foulger, ...