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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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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 ...
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BT believes in flexible work
Case study: BTTelecommunications firm BT is a great believer in flexible working arrangements, with around 12,000 of its staff working from home and over 10,000 dividing their time between their home and the office.Dave Wilson, head of employment policy at BT, strongly believes that employees are empowered via this flexible ...
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British American Tobacco offers flexible benefits through salary sacrifice
Case study: British American TobaccoBritish American Tobacco (BAT) operates its flexible benefits scheme, Free2, through salary sacrifice. While holiday trading is the most popular benefit on offer, with about 10% of participants buying extra days and another 10% choosing to sell entitlement, the perks package also includes a wine club ...
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Asda keeps staff in the loop over shares
Asda's sharesave scheme is one of its employees' most valued benefits. For this reason, Mike Hazelgrave, reward manager, believes it is vital that nothing detracts from this.Staff are warned, for example, that share prices can go down as well as up, but this is done in a way that won't ...
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BT favours flexbile working
Telecommunications firm BT is a great believer in flexible working arrangements, with around 12,000 of its staff working from home and over 10,000 dividing their time between their home and the office. Dave Wilson, head of employment policy at BT, strongly believes that employees are empowered via this flexible approach ...
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Employer Profile: McDonald's
Article in fullLove it or hate it, there is no ignoring the McDonald’s brand. Since the foundations for the McDonald’s Corporation were laid in the US in 1948, more than 28,000 restaurants have been opened worldwide, of which at least 1,000 are in the UK.In recent years, however, the fast-food ...
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Childcare on offer at Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK tested childcare vouchers on a pilot group of 12 staff in April 2005 after the tax and national insurance exemption on vouchers up to £50 a week was introduced. The tax-exempt limit has since been raised to £55 and the charity now offers the benefit to all ...
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John Lewis Partnership offers childcare to staff
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has offered childcare vouchers since April 2005. It has recently added a feedback facility for the scheme to its intranet for John Lewis and Waitrose staff.Gill Bowler, implementation manager of benefits projects at the partnership, says the feedback forum has revealed that employees are generally ...
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Coda replaces pension scheme with salary sacrifice group personal pension plan
Coda, the business software company, replaced its three trustee-based pension schemes with a salary sacrifice group personal pension plan in April 2006 ahead of the company' s demerger with its SciSys division in September. Dave Belmont, group company secretary, said salary sacrifice allowed the company to increase the contributions it ...
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Rugby Football League offers health perks to staff
The RFL is the governing body of Rugby League in the UK, and administers 450 clubs and 40,000 players. It employs 85 staff that referee, administer and help develop the sport.The RFL offers a private medical insurance policy, an employer-paid LHF healthcare cash plan and a bikes-for-work scheme. About 90% ...
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AA revamps flexible benefits under new ownership
The Automobile Association (AA) was in the opposite position to PwC when its owner, Centrica, sold the vehicle recovery organisation to two private equity firms in 2004.In its first year of operation, the AA stuck with the status quo and continued with the flexible benefits scheme (and provider) Centrica had ...
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Senior management support has helped City of York Council drive absence down
The City of York Council cites an absence management system and support from senior management as the reasons behind its reduction in sickness absence levels from 13.5 days per employee recorded between 2004 and 2005 to 12.5 days between 2005 and 2006.Stephen Forrest, HR business development manager, explains: "The scheme ...
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Consensus offers staff PMI after six months service
London-based recruitment consultancy Consensus automatically provides staff with access to a private medical insurance (PMI) scheme after six months' service. Two years ago, its premium increased sharply. After looking around, managing director Martin Tyrrell, found a cheaper premium with extra health and wellbeing benefits added in. "Most PMI (policies) are ...
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Boots increases levels of communication around merger with Alliance Unichem
High street chemist, Boots, merged with Alliance Unichem in August 2006.Stephen Lehane, director of HR and organisation development at the newly-formed Alliance Boots, explains that communication with all employees was key even though no redundancies were made as a result of the merger. "Human beings' normal behaviour is to be ...
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Ringwood Brewery offers choice around personal development allowances
The Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire has a PDA policy that allows staff to spend their £500 yearly allowance on almost anything. However, it does impose some restrictions such as only being able to spend up to £250 on gym membership. Office manager, Lin Black, says she hasn't yet turned down ...
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Emap takes strategic approach to seasonal celebrations
Emap delegates the organisation of seasonal benefits to individual departments. Stewart Grant, group benefits manager at the company, which publishes titles such as Heat and Zoo, says staff identify strongly with their individual brand.The company is aligned into three operating divisions: consumer media, communications, and radio, in addition to its ...
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Cadbury Trebor Bassett has made staff wellbeing part of its ethos
Employee wellbeing has been a part of Cadbury Trebor Bassett's culture since it was founded back in 1879.In the last year-and-a half, however, it has taken a fresh approach, culminating in its wellbeing programme, Fit for Life. Kate van der Plank, Fit for Life programme manager, says: "(Employee wellbeing has) ...
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PricewaterhouseCooper harmonises benefits post-merger
Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was formed from the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. Carolyn Wilkinson, senior benefits manager at PwC, explains that a year later, it implemented a flexible benefits scheme partly to "align benefits for all staff within the company and recognise the diversity ...
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Toshiba maintains flexible benefits momentum
Toshiba Information Systems UK, which makes PCs, flat screen TVs and mobile phones, introduced a flexible benefits scheme for its 350 sales staff in 2001, at a time when it was hard do recruit IT specialists.Toshiba used an online flex platform from day one. Susan Stevens, head of HR at ...