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Mountaineering builds team spirit at UKFast
From an all-expenses paid annual festival for all staff and their families to working breaks in Verbier, Switzerland, and Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, he spares no expense.Jones strives to generate loyalty from each employee’s first day at work. He has invested in a hotel in Snowdonia, Wales, ...
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Case StudiesGSK wants staff to plan their future
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) UK’s headquarters in Brentford, Middlesex, provides employees with their own self-contained town. It boasts a high street with cafés, a sit-down restaurant, bike shop, flower shop, dry cleaners and a gym.Harsha Modha, director, UK benefits at GSK, says: “We encourage employees to walk along our street and have ...
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Ramboll reviews benefits after merger
Gareth Williams, human resources director at Ramboll, says: “We had two aims: to look at affordable ways of aligning two sets of total remuneration and benefit practices across the new business, and to test our offering and ensure we were competitive in attracting, retaining and engaging our staff.”Williams says high ...
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Utilitywise uses share plan to engage staff
It launched a sharesave scheme for its 300 employees in November 2012.The only stipulation the employer applied for staff joining the scheme was for them to have passed their probationary period. At the launch of the scheme, 214 employees were eligible to join and 110 did so. The scheme is ...
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Ladbrokes healthy living programme works
The programme, which is currently available only to senior management in Ladbrokes’ private medical insurance scheme, involves filling out an online health risk assessment, split into sections on medical history, lifestyle, diet and stress.Once completed, the employee is given a ‘Q score’, which helps them monitor their progress in improving ...
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Glenmorangie finds right platform for pension communications
Ian Drysdale, HR director at Glenmorangie, says: “As an employer, we were very keen to increase membership of our scheme.”Take-up of its DC scheme was 53% higher than that of its previous defined benefit scheme, which closed in 2002. The rise was credited to the communications strategy, which included employee ...
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Home Group builds salary sacrifice car scheme
The social housing provider replaced its company car benefit with a cash payment, which staff can use to pay for a car through a salary sacrifice arrangement.Available to all permanent and fixed-term contract employees, the scheme offers a choice of cars that have a fixed emissions cap of 155g/km of ...
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Icap set auto-enrolment targets for providers
These were to help Icap decide which employees were eligible for auto-enrolment; to help calculate contributions; and to help communicate with employees seamlessly, with as little manual intervention or human administration as possible.Hemmings decided to stick with the organisation’s existing pensions provider, Standard Life, but required additional support from Icap’s ...
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SPP Pumps used existing adviser for auto-enrolment
Terry Newby, operations director at SPP, says: “We are a relatively small company and have no HR function, so as long as Barnett Waddingham appears to be doing the right thing by us, we are happy to stick with it.”Before working with Barnett Waddingham on its auto-enrolment strategy, SPP was ...
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Case StudiesPeer 1 Hosting offers perks to attract top talent
A benefits package that attracts and retains the most talented staff while reducing employee costs is at the core of web hosting provider Peer 1 Hosting’s reward strategy.Designed primarily by managing director Dominic Monkhouse, the package has remained the same since the organisation’s UK operations started up in 2009.“I think ...
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Shop Direct Group sold on pension modeller
Richard Waddilove, head of employee relations and reward at Shop Direct, says: “The tool models people’s current contribution levels and their likely retirement income. Then it compares that against their target and enables them to say to what extent it will close the gap if they increase their contributions by ...
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Case StudiesMarks and Spencer educates staff on savvy saving
The demise of Christmas savings club Farepak was a catalyst for Marks and Spencer (M&S) to launch its financial education programme in 2007.Farepak ceased trading in October 2006, leaving tens of thousands of savers out of pocket. Its parent company, EHR, went into administration the same day, and both businesses ...
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Financial workshops help educate University of Lincoln employees
The workshops are targeted at three age groups, for employees in their early, mid and late careers. All have the same themes, such as managing finances, setting career and financial goals, and understanding financial terminology.For the early career group, loosely aimed at those up to the age of 35, information ...
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Roche finds right formula to raise staff financial awareness
Doug Ross, HR manager at Roche Pharmaceuticals, says: “One of the themes that leapt out of the survey we did of our workforce was that employees wanted guidance on financial matters. There is a growing awareness that, in these times of austerity, everyone is having to look at their finances ...
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Case StudiesPeugeot Citroën drives reward unity
French car brands Peugeot and Citroën operated as two separate businesses until 1976, when the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group was formed from a merger. More than 35 years later, its toughest challenge in 2012 was to bring the two brands together into one UK headquarters, and deal with the impact ...
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KPMG improves image of occupational health
“If someone is referred to OH, they can sometimes feel they have misbehaved in some way,” she says. “We have altered the way we position it to be a health and wellbeing benefit. We use communications through the intranet to explain that it is less about what is wrong with ...
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Ove Arup looks for value in occupational health
Head of reward Evan Davidge says: “We feel we need to take a more holistic approach. Our current approach is fragmented and we are not realising the value from our spend. OH tends to be dealt with first within health and safety, where the teams work with the business areas, ...
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Good homework drives RAC's flex provider decision
Verona Farquharson, reward manager at RAC, says: “We wanted to be able to talk to its client list, so we could ask other HR professionals what the service was like and what the pinch points were.”The company got in touch with two clients for each of the three suppliers it ...
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KBC banks on three-fund pension strategy
Its international pension fund, created in 2009, manages a cash balance plan, which is a defined benefit (DB) scheme run like a defined contribution (DC) plan with hypothetical individual employee accounts. The €5 million (£4 million) international fund guarantees an annual return of 5% on all contributions for its 200 ...
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Complementary health perks at Dennis Publishing
Some employees have also opted for additional partner cover at their own cost.The cash plan was launched to run alongside a private medical insurance (PMI) scheme. HR director Alison Hunter says: “When the Health Shield cash plan was introduced, we saw a 30% drop in PMI take-up, but only about ...