All Case studies articles – Page 46
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Case StudiesRicher Sounds offers unusual benefits to look after employees
Electrical retailer Richer Sounds takes an interesting approach to employee benefits using employer-owned resources; staff have access to holiday homes and the use of the company Bentley.While the benefit of an employer-owned holiday home might at one time have been considered a traditional, paternalistic benefit, the reason for offering it ...
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Case StudiesDeloitte creates quality culture for working parents
Deloitte aims to create an inclusive culture to support its working parents, particularly when it comes to emergencies.It intends to keep its childcare costs low for its mobile and versatile workforce and the organisation. Caroline Hunt, director of HR and head of client service HR at Deloitte, says: “Of our ...
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Case StudiesInterfleet keeps flex costs low with increased staff engagement
International rail consultancy Interfleet keeps the cost of providing flexible benefits low by ensuring that it gives staff what they want.The organisation, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, benchmarks its flex package and its 480 UK employees’ engagement with this, using the Great Places to Work questionnaire. In 2014 responses ...
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Case StudiesMartin Currie offers greater savings flexibility with new platform
Offering employees greater flexibility around how they save and broader access to the fund market were the key reasons behind investment management firm Martin Currie’s decision to introduce a workplace savings platform in 2013.Craig Gibson, head of reward, explains: “We offer all our employees membership of our self-invested personal pension ...
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Case StudiesMonster introduces workplace savings platform to help staff understanding of finances
When recruitment firm Monster started preparing for auto-enrolment, its senior director for human resources, Claire Lock, got a bit of a shock.“We’d been offering a generous pension scheme but only 41% of staff had signed up,” she explains. “Employees didn’t really understand its value or the implications of not saving ...
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Case StudiesBoots prepares for pensions auto-re-enrolment
Boots, a member of Walgreens Boots Alliance, is facing its first cyclical re-enrolment in January 2016 and has identified around 2,000 staff that must be assessed and potentially automatically re-enrolled.The Alliance Healthcare and Boots Retirement Savings Plan (AHBRSP), a group personal pension scheme, was established in 2010 with Legal and ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by TalkTalk
Pension:Group personal pension (GPP) for all employees.Staff contribute a minimum of 2.5% to receive a 5% employer contribution.Healthcare and wellbeing:Private medical insurance (PMI). The executive committee and senior management bands receive free family cover; all other employees have single-person cover with the option to add family members or change cover ...
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Case StudiesInforma involves HR and benefits team in acquisitions
Publishing and events business Informa has made a number of acquisitions in recent years, including US exhibition firms Hanley Wood and Virgo, and UK book publisher Ashgate. Tom Humphris, global support HR director, gets involved around a month before any deal goes through. “We get access to all the information, ...
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Case StudiesWorkplace Wellness adopts parallel working after acquisition
In September 2015, RehabWorks bought Right Management Workplace Wellness from Right Management, a ManpowerGroup company.As soon as the deal was announced, the HR teams from both organisations started to think about how to approach the benefits issue, and decided to initially adopt a period of parallel working. Jayne Carrington, managing ...
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Case StudiesTalkTalk looks to provide value to staff through benefits strategy
TalkTalk Group is keen to give its employees better value through its ways of working and its suite of benefits. A key element of the telecommunications provider’s benefits strategy is that employees receive benefits that are perceived to be worthwhile and of value. Sam Kirk, reward director, explains that this ...
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Case StudiesCafcass integrates occupational health into wider wellbeing strategy
Family support service Cafcass has integrated its occupational health provision within its wider health and wellbeing strategy.The organisation took measures to use its health and wellbeing spend more effectively after recognising that it was investing across a number of different providers, with a lot of reactive rather than proactive services.Cafcass ...
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Case StudiesYorkshire Water uses occupational health to create a healthy workforce culture
Yorkshire Water gave its occupational health provision an overhaul to ensure that it helps to support a healthy workforce culture for its 3,000 employees.The organisation’s approach is to refer staff to occupational health on day one of absence. As is the case with many organisations, the majority of absences are ...
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46, 47 TalkTalk looks to provide value to staff through benefits strategy
A key element of the telecommunications provider’s benefits strategy is that employees receive benefits that are perceived to be worthwhile and of value. Sam Kirk, reward director, explains that this echoes its corporate strategy. TalkTalk has five organisational values, branded its ‘Brighter Basics’, which include value, innovate, people, community and ...
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Case study: Business Protection
At this time the company was looking to commence Key Man insurance and Share Purchase insurance, however these had not yet been implemented.Without these insurances in place, the complexity of the deceased director’s circumstances made the settlement of his estate extremely challenging and time consuming (involving six different sets of ...
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Case StudiesK&L Gates redesigns workplace to motivate staff
Before moving into its offices in London’s One New Change in 2011, legal firm K&L Gates’ 250 London employees were based in an 11-storey building on Cannon Street, with each floor housing a different department.Tony Griffiths, administrative partner at K&L Gates, explains: “The way the office was set out meant ...
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Case StudiesWellbeing at Reed Business Information is led from the top
Reed Business Information’s (RBI) Living Well programme is designed to support the physical and psychological wellbeing of its 2,000 employees.It encompasses physical fitness, healthy eating, emotional wellbeing, and giving back through a strong charity agenda. The programme is led by global marketing director, Lawrence Mitchell.“As an ambitious [organisation] focused on ...
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Gift cards supplement: 7, Case study: SSP uses gift cards to reward staff loyalty
Key points:SSP introduced a new staff loyalty scheme in July 2015.The scheme recognises key long-service milestones and rewards staff with gift cards.The scheme complements the organisation’s wider employee benefits strategy in recognising staff performance and loyalty.The organisation employs around 750 people in office locations around the world, including the UK, ...
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Case StudiesCNH Industrial keeps communication simple
CNH Industrial aims to keep communication for its 71,192 staff as simple as possible, to avoid overcomplicating its employee benefits.The agricultural and construction manufacturer held focus groups for employees prior to its September 2013 merger with Fiat Industrial and CNH Global to ensure employees were involved with the design process ...
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Case StudiesAge UK sets example for benefits for the over-40s
In May, the charity Age UK launched a programme to help its 2,800 employees, two-thirds of whom are aged over 40, better plan their working lives and prepare for retirement.Its Extending Working Life and Planning for Retirement programme includes midlife career reviews, health assessments , and financial and retirement-planning advice ...
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Case StudiesExperian refreshes voluntary benefits scheme
Kathryn Finch, reward consultant at Experian, explains that this feedback is the basis behind the popularity of the credit risk management’s firm voluntary benefits scheme. “Our employees told us that the opportunity to flex their holiday allowance was important to them so we built our voluntary benefits scheme from there,” ...