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North Yorkshire County Council boosts green credentials
The scheme, provided by Tusker, allows staff to take up a car through a salary sacrifice arrangement, enabling them to save on tax and national insurance.John Robinson, benefits and reward consultant at North Yorkshire County Council, says: “We introduced it as a green car scheme, partly due to the fact ...
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Axa supports staff with travel benefits
The organisation also offers staff a cash allowance towards the cost of a car for those that need it for work, as well on those at a particular employee grade in the organisation.As well as the car scheme, Axa offers staff a range of travel-related benefits, including bikes-for-work through its ...
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Hitachi Data Systems takes broad approach to flex communications
It uses a variety of methods to communicate with employees about their flex choices about four weeks ahead of the enrolment window.The strategy involves Hitachi putting posters up around its offices to tell employees the flex system is due to open soon. Then, on the day the flex window opens, ...
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American Express rolls out global health programme
The programme covers four areas: nutrition, exercise, healthcare and emotional wellbeing. Breckon Jones, director of health and benefits, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at American Express, says: “Common health risks are mental wellbeing, obesity and sedentary lifestyle. This is fairly consistent around the world, although there are many cultural ...
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JP Morgan revamps flex to suit staff
Adam Brooke, employee benefits manager (UK), says: “We need to keep in mind that our employees have everyday access to computers, so that’s going to be the main channel used to engage them. But whether an employee is at work or even at home, they need to be able to ...
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Case StudiesGroupon offers staff rewarding benefits deal
“We didn’t have a robust benefits offering [when the UK business launched] because it wasn’t a priority for our workforce in the start-up phase,” says Hailey Wojcik, HR director for northern Europe. “As we’ve started to grow into a global business and we’ve started to refine processes and procedures, our ...
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RSA involves staff in benefits to boost take up
Ed Airey, UK reward manager, says the journey reflects the organisation’s progression from providing a benefits package that is just there for staff to find, and if they find it, then they use it, to one that better understands what employees want.“Also, it is understanding better some of our different ...
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Novae Group boosts staff engagement
In 2011, the organisation changed from a trust-based pension to a group personal pension and arranged for all members of the scheme to have one-to-one financial education meetings.John Renz, director of HR, says: “First of all, we wanted to explain the nature of those changes, but also essentially to put ...
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Case StudiesFinmeccanica offers staff award-winning pension investment choices
In 2007, it introduced a new trust-based defined contribution (DC) scheme, FuturePlanner, for its UK staff who were joining a pension scheme for the first time.It also runs two defined benefit (DB) schemes, which are now closed to new members but open to future accrual, and wanted to bring in ...
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Peer 1 Hosting motivates staff with peer-to-peer recognition
The system enables employees and managers to spend time together and collaborate to set their promises to deliver and be accountable for the forthcoming year.Helen Ives, HR director, says: “Everything we do from a learning, recognition and performance standpoint is very collaborative and peer-to-peer led.”The organisation’s Peer Promises system has ...
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Withers aims to raise CSR profile with green benefits
When it launched its flexible benefits scheme in April 2013, it included a section called Ethics and Sustainability, which is the entry point into its payroll-giving, bikes-for-work and carbon-offsetting schemes.The carbon-offsetting benefit, provided by Pure the Clean Planet Trust, allows staff to enter the details of their carbon footprint online ...
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Accenture UK and Ireland offers green benefits through flex
Camilla Drejer, corporate citizenship lead for Accenture, UK and Ireland, says these benefits are tied to ensuring the sustainable growth of the business.“Fostering environmentally sustainable growth for our organisation and our stakeholders is at the heart of our environmental strategy,” she says. “As a people-based business, all this is underpinned ...
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Case study: Astellas staff walk to improve health
Since 2010, the organisation has taken part in the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) wellbeing initiative, which measures participants’ daily activity levels through the number of steps they take, promoting a goal of 10,000 steps a day.From 2010 to 2013, the number of Astellas employees that took part in the GCC ...
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Case StudiesHSBC implements new all-employee benefits strategy
The streamlining project will culminate in the delivery of a new benefits proposition in 2015 that will provide all employees with a suite of competitive benefits regardless of their role or career band.Maria Strid, head of performance and reward, says: “As with any large organisation comes a degree of complexity, ...
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PWC offers multiple support for staff health
As well as offering a range of healthcare benefits, including private medical insurance (PMI) and group income protection (GIP), PWC’s health and wellbeing team works with people managers if an employee is on long-term sick leave to offer support tailored to their needs.Rosie Garfield, health and wellbeing leader, says: “Every ...
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Stagecoach UK employees benefit from health drive
The voluntary heart health screening project was offered in partnership with independent hospital provider BMI Healthcare.June Ashton, HR manager for the Stagecoach Group’s UK division, says: “Our chief executive, Sir Brian Souter, came up with the idea after speaking to a cardiologist. He personally funded half of the project because ...
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Fluidata auto-enrols staff four years early
But with auto-enrolment on the horizon and increasing media coverage about the looming pensions crisis, the organisation decided to auto-enrol four years before its 2016 staging date and go straight to an 8% employee contribution level, with 6% coming from the employer.Nigel Sanders, finance director, says: “We didn’t see why ...
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L'Oreal used auto-enrolment to re-evaluate reward
Working with Buck Consultants, it identified four areas of reward: pay and bonus, savings and investment, more generic benefits such as private medical insurance or life assurance, and healthy living, says Ben Marks, HR compensation and benefits director.These will be tied together in a flexible benefits platform it will launch ...
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Addaction offers flexible retirement plan
In 2007, the charity arranged a flexible retirement plan through The Pensions Trust, which now has 1,200 members.Then, in March 2013, it moved onto The Pensions Trust’s new SmarterPensions platform for qualifying workplace pension schemes in the auto-enrolment market. This uses AllianceBernstein’s target date funds as the default in an ...
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DAS UK Group staff value income protection and life cover
Paul Timmins, chief operating officer at DAS UK Group, says: “It has been a deliberate part of our business strategy to offer these products because we want to attract and retain high-quality and skilled staff.“We employ a large number of lawyers, accountants, actuaries and other insurance and legal services professionals, ...