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Training proves popular with Buckinghamshire County Council staff
Buckinghamshire County Council has found that training is a popular benefit among staff. Feedback from its annual benefits survey shows that training is consistently rated as one of the organisation's top three perks. For this reason, it plans to offer each employee a minimum of five days training and development ...
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EC Harris' dental plan is particularly appealing
Jessie Hiney, an associate at EC Harris, has been with the company for just over six years.She particularly values the extensive range of perks offered through the firm's flexible benefits scheme My Share. "It offers virtually everything other than pet [insurance]," she says.Hiney uses her flex fund to buy dental ...
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Anglian Water opts to make total reward statements annually
Utility company, Anglian Water, first issued hard-copy total reward statements to its 4,000 employees in 2005 and has decided to provide them annually. The firm did this because it had introduced a number of new benefits over the last few years, but felt that these changes were not visible to ...
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Ernst & Young offers staff global exchange programme
Professional services company Ernst & Young has traditionally offered a two-year global exchange programme to its 114,000 staff.However, through staff focus groups, it emerged that many employees would also like to have the option of shorter stints working abroad.Riaz Shah, people leader for assurance and advisory business services at Ernst ...
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Employer Profile: Tesco
Retailer Tesco goes from strength to strength. Group benefits manager Mark Roberts explains how the supermarket’s perks encourage staff to take a stake in the business and subscribe to its core values.Related articles on employee benefits at Tesco:Tesco plans homes for staffTesco staff share GBP175 million payoutTesco to offer employees ...
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Tesco employee values share plans
Paul Eaton is an in-store pharmacist. He joined Tesco six years ago, initially on a part-time basis while at university before taking on a full-time role two years ago.He particularly values Tesco's all-employee share plans, and has taken advantage of its save-as-you-earn (Sharesave) scheme, the last one of which matured ...
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Kleinwort Benson Private Bank motivates staff on an individual basis
Kleinwort Benson Private Bank tends to motivate staff on an individual basis, by assessing each new employee in order to identify what drives them at work. This insight is used to develop a clear career progression path within the firm for the bankers, which, combined with bonuses, helps keeps them ...
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Standard Chartered Bank caters for international assignments
Standard Chartered Bank operates in 56 countries and has 58,000 employees worldwide. Staff are encouraged to take international assignments and there are currently around 35 in-bound assignees working in the UK.Manissa Patel, head of international mobility, explains that because overseas assignments are such a normal occurrence, it does not have ...
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Case Study: How Kent County Council offered mobile phones to staff
This article is brought to you by Flexphone, sponsors of the flexible benefits channel.Case Study: Kent County CouncilBackgroundKent County Council is the county's largest employer, with more than 44,000 staff. As an 'Investor in People', KCC ensure their staff have access to training and development opportunities as well as offering ...
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Case Study: How HBOS offered mobile phones to staff
This article is brought to you by Flexphone, sponsors of the flexible benefits channel.Mobile Salary SaverBackgroundHBOS is the UK?s largest mortgage and savings provider in the UK with over 22 million customers. Their ?Total Reward? approach is designed to reward and recognize individual performance as well as ensure that each ...
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Herts county council supports staff with caring responsibilities
Hertfordshire County Council has offered a range of support services and benefits for employees with caring responsibilities since 2002.It is already ahead of the requirements due to be brought in by the Work and Families Act in April as it allows all staff to request to work flexibly.Other support tools ...
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InterContinental Hotels Group invests in global employee engagement
Staff seen as vital link in hotel chain InterContinental Hotels Group puts its money where its mouth is and, this year, invested $10m (£5.4m) in a global employee engagement programme.David Anderson, vice president of global brand innovation, headed the project, which involved 140 hotels in some 69 countries."A couple of ...
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University Hospitals of Leicester offer staff in-house emergency childcare
Employees at the University Hospitals of Leicester have access to three on-site day nurseries that can help with emergency childcare. As the nurseries operate on around 80% capacity, there is always the chance that a place can be offered on an emergency basis and staff are able to see if ...
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Npower keeps close check on employees' engagement levels
Electricity firm Npower regularly checks its workforce's engagement pulse with surveys and focus groups. The utility firm surveys the entire company once every two years and polls sample groups every quarter. Jon Cowell, head of learning and development, says: "Questions are a mix of standard items to track engagement, mainly ...
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Standard Life's flex scheme mirrors its changing workforce
Having implemented flex in April 2006, Standard Life is aware of its changing workforce demographics and is working to keep flex as popular in the future as it is today.Bearing in mind the gradual shift in the age of its workforce, the financial services company is looking to understand which ...
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Cedar Communications finds flex scheme success
Contract publishing firm, Cedar Communications introduced a flex scheme for its 90 employees in 2003.The scheme offers a range of benefits, including life cover, income protection, pension scheme, medical and dental cover, and lifestyle benefits.Tracey Jakimovski, HR manager, says: "A favourite is the option to buy and sell holiday. We ...
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Buckinghamshire County Council employee values its flexible working policies
Claire Street, a democratic services officer, has worked at Buckinghamshire County Council for around five years and is responsible for writing up committee minutes and advising on issues such as cabinet member decisions. She particularly values being able to work from home and working flexibly outside the core office hours ...
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Employer profile: Buckinghamshire County Council
In attempting to become a top employer, clear goal setting and accountability will become key to Bucks County Council's strategy, says Vicki Taylor Article in fullChange is afoot at Buckinghamshire County Council. The arrival of Gillian Hibberd, corporate director, organisational development and HR, from neighbouring Hertfordshire County Council in November ...
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John Lewis Partnership's profit based annual bonus
For the past 10 years, John Lewis Partnership has paid an annual partnership bonus of between 9% and 22% of annual salary.The bonus is based on profits for the trading year beginning each February, and is determined by the organisation's partnership board. After any capital is held back for reinvestment, ...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has introduced a pilot emergency childcare system
Professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers introduced a pilot emergency childcare scheme for staff in five of its offices in May 2006. The pilot, which is running for an initial 12-month period, provides staff in London, Birmingham and the East Midlands, Manchester and Edinburgh with access to five free days of emergency ...