Case studies – Page 30
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Case StudiesStone Junction offers flexible reward to support employees' work-life balance
Specialist technological PR agency Stone Junction was established in 2016, at which point founder and managing director Richard Stone created a system of clearly defined, personalised objectives for each member of staff. This system allows employees to progress through salary scales and gain promotions by achieving set goals.As a result, ...
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Case StudiesCoventry Building Society introduces paid carers' leave to mitigate financial worries
Coventry Building Society's paid carers' leave initiative, which launched in July 2018, enables all 2,500 direct employees working across its 70 branches and six head office sites to take up to three days of paid leave a year to accommodate caring responsibilities.Lucy Becque, HR director at Coventry Building Society, says: ...
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Case StudiesAviva introduces paid carers’ leave to help employees remain at work
In October 2017, Aviva introduced paid carers’ leave, to ensure that members of its 16,000-strong UK employee base could deal with responsibilities and events in their personal lives, without exiting the workplace.The carers’ leave enables employees who have a dependant, either permanently or in an emergency, to take 10 days ...
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Case StudiesHays places financial support at the centre of its wellbeing strategy
Global recruitment organisation Hays recognises the importance of supporting staff with their financial concerns, and addresses this as one of its key pillars of wellbeing.Hays' financial wellbeing strategy covers a range of issues, including debt consolidation and everyday savings. As part of this, Hays promotes its employee assistance programme (EAP) ...
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Case StudiesDCB Group offers employees health initiatives to start the year right
DCB Group is a communications specialist in Manchester, employing 52 people across three business centres. The organisation offers health and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year, but the power of supporting employees’ resolutions became apparent more than 10 years ago.David Beale, chief executive officer at DCB Group, says: “I gave up ...
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Case StudiesX4 Group uses seasonal holiday incentives to motivate and engage employees
Recruitment organisation X4 Group combats the potentially negative impact of the initial months by giving its 125 UK-based sales employees the exciting prospect of a holiday to work toward.In a scheme originally launched in January 2012, X4 Group funds three holidays over the course of the year: a ‘high rollers’ ...
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Case StudiesOvo Energy helps employees save for the future with a workplace Isa
Ovo Energy is a growing energy supply organisation based in Bristol. It launched a flexible benefits proposition with Thomsons in 2014, through which it provides employees with 4% of their salary for investment. In October 2017, it added a new dimension in the form of a workplace individual savings account ...
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Case StudiesInvestec aims to address sustainability within its wellbeing strategy
In order to explore how sustainability can be incorporated into a wider wellbeing strategy, financial services organisation Investec is testing the waters with an employer-paid cycling scheme.Investec, which has 3,200 employees across 16 operating sites in the UK, is looking to roll out an organisation-wide, employer-paid cycling scheme in February ...
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Case StudiesEmerald gamifies positive behaviour to boost employee wellbeing
At publishing organisation Emerald, going into January means entering a busy period, with fresh targets and expectations.Melissa Fojt, social responsibility manager at Emerald, says: “During January and February, the people team has a real drive and focus on the mental health side [and there are] a lot of workshops and ...
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Case StudiesDirect Line embeds mental health first aid to support employees in 2019
Insurer Direct Line has 17 offices and 20 accident repair centres in the UK, housing 10,300 employees overall. To support all of these staff members in the difficult early months of 2019, the organisation has worked to embed communication and support around mental health into its culture.Richard Stanbury, head of ...
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Case StudiesZurich uses benchmarking as basis for new reward proposition
Insurance organisation Zurich employs around 5,000 people in the UK. Towards the end of 2016, it decided the time had come to refresh its reward package.Jo Burton, UK employee benefits manager at Zurich, explains: “We’d offered flexible benefits for many years, but had never really changed what we offered, so ...
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Case StudiesPrezzybox adopts holistic approach to total reward
Since its launch in 2000, online gift retailer Prezzybox has taken a holistic approach to reward, believing that culture and working environment are as important as traditional benefits.Zak Edwards, managing director at Prezzybox, says: “Too many employers see fiscal rewards as the be all and end all, which is shortsighted. ...
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Case StudiesBromford uses trust-based working as foundation for holistic reward package
Affordable housing social enterprise Bromford uses a holistic benefits package to empower its 1,800 employees to plan for the future, as well as looking after their health, finances and work-life balance in the present.A key element of this approach is the organisation's commitment to allowing its workforce, which includes field ...
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Case StudiesCharlotte Tilbury rolls out new benefits initiative across global locations
Beauty and skincare organisation Charlotte Tilbury has 1,124 employees in 49 global locations. In December 2017, staff surveys and focus groups brought to light the need for a new, unified approach to benefits.Megan O'Shaughnessy, global senior total reward manager at Charlotte Tilbury, says: “As the brand has been growing globally ...
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Case StudiesAddison Lee to launch new values as part of wider benefits roadmap
Transportation service Addison Lee is launching five organisational values in February 2019, as part of a wider strategy to reinvigorate benefits and reward for its 1,600 global employees.The new values have been decided by the leadership team and are going to be introduced to help shape the organisation’s culture, as ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Addison Lee
The benefits offered by Addison Lee:Pension and payFive defined contribution (DC) pension schemes, which the organisation is looking to consolidate. These include pension schemes with National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) for approximately 500 employed UK chauffeurs, and with Aegon for management. Contributions vary according to seniority: employees and team leaders ...
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Case StudiesMundipharma updates group risk benefits to increase employee choice and flexibility
Pharmaceutical organisation Mundipharma updated its group risk benefits in April 2016, in order to afford its 1,000 employees more flexibility around their coverage while mitigating increasing costs.Mundipharma provides two group risk benefits: group life insurance and group income protection. Both schemes were redesigned when the organisation introduced flexible benefits in ...
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Case StudiesDAC Beachcroft uses financial education to encourage active investment choices
DAC Beachcroft, which has 2,230 UK-based employees, held a pensions roadshow at its Bristol office in September 2018, in conjunction with Scottish Widows. This enabled employees to book one-to-one consultations and attend a presentation on fund performance and available investment plans.Sarah Young, head of reward at DAC Beachcroft, says: “People ...
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Case StudiesRSM encourages risk-profiling to engage employees with pension investments
Audit, tax and consulting organisation RSM created its defined contribution (DC) pension scheme in 2010 without a default investment fund, encouraging active decision-making among its 3,600 UK-based employees.RSM’s online joining process encouraged staff to utilise a risk-profiling tool, provided by Aviva. This aligned with the available investment funds, including five ...
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Case StudiesZurich increases access to benefits to help employees manage busy lives
Insurance organisation Zurich has approximately 4,500 permanent staff in the UK. In the second half of 2017, internal research revealed a pressing need to upgrade its benefits programme.Steve Collinson, UK head of HR at Zurich, explains: “Instead of us as an organisation deciding what to offer, we did a really ...