Case studies – Page 36

  • UK-Power-Networks
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    The benefits offered by UK Power Networks

    2018-02-12T16:09:57Z

    The workplace benefits offered by UK Power Networks:Pensions and financial wellbeingElectricity supply industry final salary pension scheme, closed to new entrants.EDF Energy defined benefit scheme, closed to new entrants.Defined contribution (DC) group personal pension scheme open to all employees. Matching 2:1 contributions, up to 10% from the employer.Tenancy loan deposit ...

  • UK Power Networks
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    UK Power Networks uses benefits to switch on employee engagement

    2018-02-12T16:06:08Z

    For those that work or live in the south east of England, a UK Power Network van and engineer is a familiar sight. With 6,000 employees that help power homes and businesses across East Anglia, London and the south east of England, the electrical network operator distributes around 27% of ...

  • Thames Water
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    Thames Water uses technology to train mental health first aiders

    2018-02-08T06:00:38Z

    Water services provider Thames Water has increased its support for mental wellbeing in the workplace, using technology as part of its training strategy.Four years ago, the organisation increased its focus on the wellbeing of its employees, including the promotion of good mental health. This involved providing managers with awareness training ...

  • Horwich Farrelly
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    Horwich Farrelly invests in mental health strategy to support depression

    2018-02-05T16:29:07Z

    Law firm Horwich Farrelly has fully invested in its mental health strategy in a bid to destigmatise depression, anxiety and other forms of mental health in the workplace.In October 2017, the organisation trained 18 employees to become mental health first aiders. These individuals were specifically selected from different levels, age ...

  • KPMG
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    KPMG employs range of success measures for mental health strategy

    2018-02-02T14:52:19Z

    With just under 14,000 employees across 22 regional offices in the UK, monitoring the effectiveness of KPMG’s mental health strategy is a must. Jessica Carmody, head of KPMG’s internal Be Mindful Network, says: “We work alongside our inclusion and diversity and leadership teams to devise an overall mental health strategy. ...

  • Anglian Water
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    Anglian Water focuses on benefits that support corporate strategy

    2018-01-29T16:33:38Z

    Anglian Water ensures that the behaviours and values that are important to the organisation are woven in to its benefits strategy.The performance of the water organisation’s 4,000 employees is measured against its behaviours framework. One of the key components of this is customer service, which is underlined by the attitude, ...

  • Aviva
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    Aviva uses share schemes to retain and engage employees

    2018-01-24T17:38:43Z

    Insurance organisation Aviva uses its all-employee share schemes to retain and engage its 28,000 global employees.In the UK, the organisation’s annual UK engagement survey, Voice of Aviva, compiled in September and October 2016, found that the overall engagement score for employees who participated in one of its share schemes was ...

  • Keolis Nottingham
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    Keolis Nottingham drives benefits engagement among remote staff with mobile app

    2018-01-22T16:36:34Z

    Around 80% of the 294 employees at Keolis Nottingham, formerly Nottingham Trams, work remotely, whether as drivers, engineers, maintenance staff or roving revenue officers.Trevor Stocker, operations manager, says: “Drivers, for example, sign in, are given the keys and away they go [for] four to five hours out in the tram. ...

  • MVF
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    MVF involves employees with benefits to boost engagement

    2018-01-22T06:30:10Z

    Customer generation firm MVF was ranked sixth in the top 10 of the Sunday Times' Best Places to Work For list in 2017. Translating business strategy into employee benefits is critical to maintaining this ranking.Andrea Pattico, chief people officer, says: “You can have the best strategy, but if people aren’t ...

  • Merseyrail
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    Merseyrail engages employees with new benefits portal

    2018-01-17T15:51:02Z

    Train operator Merseyrail offers a wide range of benefits for its employees, but a combination of low awareness levels, disparate technology systems and a highly mobile workforce meant only around 100 of more than 700 staff actually used the scheme.Andrew Parry, head of engagement and reward, says: “Our offering was ...

  • Motability-exterior
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    Motability uses face-to-face briefings to educate employees on pension investments

    2018-01-10T16:44:01Z

    Harlow-based mobility charity Motability uses annual face-to-face briefing sessions to educate its 119 employees on pensions topics, including available pension investment options.Currently, employees have the opportunity to self-select their own pension investment fund away from the default option out of 57 available fund options.The voluntary briefing sessions, led by the ...

  • Siemens-Frimley
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    The benefits offered by Siemens UK

    2018-01-08T15:18:43Z

    The workplace benefits offered by Siemens UKFinancial: Defined contribution (DC) trust-based pension scheme for all employees to comply with auto-enrolment. Employer matching on a 1:1 basis, with a minimum total contribution of 3% and a maximum of 10%.Online financial education.Performance-based bonus scheme.Sales commission in relevant areas of the business.Employee share ...

  • Heike-Avramovic
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    Siemens UK launches benefits platform to align with business digitalisation

    2018-01-08T15:14:21Z

    Global technology organisation Siemens has launched a new benefits platform for its 15,000 UK and Ireland-based employees in order to align its benefits technology with the organisation’s overall business focus on digitalisation.Heike Avramovic, head of reward for UK and Ireland at Siemens, says: “It’s about culture, and the culture needs ...

  • benefits boutique
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    Goodman Masson advocates regular employee benefits communications

    2018-01-03T16:36:42Z

    Goodman Masson takes great pride in its employee benefits brand and has trademarked its Benefits Boutique. It has also picked up numerous awards, including Most engaging benefits proposition at the Employee Benefits Awards 2016.Founded in 1993, the London-based recruitment agency employs 150 staff, with over 50% (85) of employees signed ...

  • Belron UK
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    Belron UK uses feedback from line managers and staff to inform recognition scheme

    2017-11-27T16:42:25Z

    Belron UK relied on employees' and line managers' feedback to design a new recognition scheme.The vehicle glass repair and replacement organisation, which owns Autoglass UK, worked with provider OC Tanner to design a new scheme based on employees’ views, which included feedback that there was not enough recognition throughout the ...

  • St Andrew's Healthcare
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    St Andrew’s Healthcare works with line managers on pay strategy

    2017-11-27T16:25:57Z

    St Andrew’s Healthcare has worked with its line managers to redesign its pay strategy.The mental healthcare charity's reward team and HR business partners spoke with line managers to find out their views on the previous approach to pay, for example, what worked well, what factors were missing, and whether there ...

  • Home Group
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    Home Group uses a range of festive schemes to reward employees

    2017-11-22T16:35:25Z

    Home Group involves its employees in a range of reward schemes during the festive period to show its appreciation of their work throughout the year.As well as decorating offices and desks, the provider of social housing, and care and support services, has held a 12 Days of Christmas event in ...

  • scisys
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    Scisys offers employees savings tools via workplace platform

    2017-11-20T17:04:47Z

    Scisys, an IT and technology company headquartered in Chippenham, introduced a workplace savings platform, provided by Hargreaves Lansdown in April 2013. The wrap offers a range of savings and investment products to the Scisys pension scheme’s 235 members.The organisation has since seen 62% of members contributing more than the minimum ...

  • BNP Paribas UK
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    BNP Paribas allows employees to customise group risk provision

    2017-11-14T06:00:51Z

    Financial services organisation BNP Paribas offers its employees a comprehensive array of group risk products.All the bank’s UK staff get life insurance and the vast majority (80%) receive group income protection, with the exact terms of the cover varying, depending on their preferences and which of the 12 BNP Paribas ...

  • Oracle
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    Oracle proactively supports its employees’ wellbeing with line manager support service

    2017-11-13T06:00:32Z

    Technology organisation Oracle offers group income protection as a core employee benefit. In 2016, it introduced a dedicated service, branded Swift and provided by Unum, which enables line managers to support the wellbeing of employees.Michelle Bradshaw, compensation and benefits director, explains: “Line managers are often the first point of contact ...