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Infographic: Pensions education in numbers
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Case StudiesWatergate Bay Hotel group provides pension scam information and support for staff
Watergate Bay Hotel group has used trust-based drawdown scheme Crystal since 2014. As well as Watergate Bay Hotel and Beach Retreats on the North Cornwall coast, the employer runs Another Place, The Lake in the Lake District and its newest hotel, Another Place, The Garden in Hampshire.“It is important to ...
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Case StudiesInspired Villages regularly informs staff of valuable benefits available
Inspired Villages runs six retirement villages around the UK, with a further 29 planned over the next 10 years. Since starting with 25 colleagues in 2017, it has grown its workforce to 300, with 200 working in the villages providing services such as catering, maintenance and exercise classes. The remainder ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits on offer at Herbert Smith Freehills
The benefits offered by Herbert Smith Freehills:PensionA defined contribution (DC) pension scheme for all employees, with employer-matched contributions up to a total of 16% (employee/employer).Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme, employer paid for all employees and their families.Income protection, employer paid for all employees.Health screening, employee paid.Health cash plan, ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Herbert Smith Freehills ensures its reward strategy is pandemic proof
tynanbarton · Herbert Smith Freehills/Employee Benefits podcastListen: Ellie Vaughan, head of reward and benefits at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), talks about the changes the law firm has made to its reward strategy in the past year.When the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic hit, the employer quickly assessed which of its benefits were ...
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Case StudiesCapita supports employees' savings goals with financial wellbeing platform
In November last year, following a successful pilot scheme, Capita rolled out Level, a financial wellbeing and savings platform, to its 37,000 UK employees, most of whom are still working remotely.The platform, which can be accessed via desktop or mobile, offers a range of financial features, including budgeting tools powered ...
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Case StudiesGreene King supports staff with financial hardship fund
UK pub retailer and brewer Greene King currently employs around 40,000 people across 2,700 pubs, support centres and breweries.In March 2020, when the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic struck and pubs were forced to close, more than 99% of Greene King team members were furloughed. The employer introduced a Team Member Support ...
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Case StudiesBarratt offers staff financial stability with living wage commitment
British housebuilder business Barratt Developments is a member of the FTSE 100 index and currently has around 6,700 employees.In December 2018, former group HR director Rob Tansey met with investment charity ShareAction to become a voluntary real living wage employer. At the meeting, the ShareAction team agreed that the employer ...
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Infographic: Employee engagement in numbers
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Case StudiesOmnipresent engages staff through inspiring values
Formed in 2019, Omnipresent is a global employment services provider that enables businesses to employ, pay and provide support for teams across 150 countries. Last December, it had 15 full-time team members and it has just now employed its one hundredth employee. Omnipresent staff have been working remotely across the ...
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Case StudiesTesco focuses on pension scheme members' retirement outcomes
Pension scheme managers face a mountain of pressing regulatory work such as preparing data for the pension dashboards and new environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting challenges, but there is a risk that this can divert attention from the day-to-day monitoring of a scheme’s providers.Ruston Smith, non-executive chair of the ...
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Case StudiesNewcastle Building Society recognises the impact staff volunteering has on wellbeing
The mass transition to home working in March last year forced Newcastle Building Society completely to re-evaluate how its 1,300 employees volunteered and engaged with their local communities, explains strategic people partner Erin Mulligan.“Community is really central to us; it is a big part of our purpose. As a business ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Global Marine Group adapts reward strategy to support staff wellbeing during pandemic
?tynanbarton · Global Marine Group/Employee Benefits podcastListen: Paul Rose, director of HR and talent at Global Marine Group, talks to Employee Benefits about how the organisation adapted its reward strategy to place a high focus on employee wellbeing, especially during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Rose explains that the offshore engineering orgnisation ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits on offer at Global Marine Group
The benefits offered to UK employees at Global Marine Group:PensionA group personal pension (GPP) for all employees with matched contributions at 7.5%.Closed defined benefit (DB) scheme.Healthcare and group riskPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme with Axa PPP, employer-funded for all employees.Health cash plan for all employees with Medicash, employee paid.Employee assistance ...
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Case StudiesFox Agency adapts perks to hybrid working model
Business-to-business marketing firm Fox Agency has a main office in Leeds and a satellite one in London, but switched to remote working once the first lockdown was imposed.Despite initial concerns, the business has now adapted to remote working and is planning to adapt a hybrid model going forward. Al Fox, ...
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Case StudiesSerco looks to recognition awards to motivate employees
Essential public services delivery business Serco has a workforce of around 35,000 employees at 542 locations around the world, with staff working in “challenging” environments within defence, transport, justice, immigration, health and other citizen services across national, state and local government.Serco’s benefits manager Karen Bateman explains that the business is ...
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Case StudiesSage raises awareness of share schemes among staff to increase participation
Accounting software firm Sage set up a global share option plan in 2017, based on the design of the UK’s sharesave scheme. Employees can put up to £500 a month into a savings account with the option of buying shares at a discounted price, set at launch, in three years’ ...
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Case StudiesHow Essex County Council is reimagining benefits post-pandemic
Essex County Council is thinking hard about what benefits look like after the pandemic, concentrating its efforts on flexible working and wellbeing for its employees.Pam Parkes, Essex County Council’s director of organisational development and people, says: “I think there is going to be more structured hybrid working, which is what ...
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Case StudiesLanes Group supports the mental health of workforce with range of initiatives
Wastewater utility solutions provider and drainage specialists Lanes Group employs around 2,200 people across the UK. Many of its employees are in skilled manual roles, such as its jetting and excavation engineers, and the vast majority, around 87%, are male. “We have had some issues with mental health,” says Debi ...
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Case StudiesJungheinrich creates a benefits platform that offers staff value
Engineering business Jungheinrich employs 790 members of staff in a wide variety of roles and has seven sites across the UK.In order to reward staff, Jungheinrich’s assistant director of HR Jonathan Pearce worked in partnership with employee benefits platform provider Xexec to launch and manage a customised discounts platform for ...