All articles by Debbie Lovewell-Tuck – Page 23
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Should bonuses be scrapped?
Are bonuses an effective tool to drive employee performance? Or are they too often perceived as an entitlement rather than a reward for performance?Earlier this week, Woodford Investment Management hit the headlines when it was revealed that founder Neil Woodford axed bonuses in favour of paying a flat basic salary ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Tackling the mental health pay gap
Inequality and prejudice of any kind are one of my top pet peeves. In this day and age, it never fails to astound me that, despite the progress made in many areas, dealing with such issues is still a daily battle for many individuals.However, every now and then, a finding ...
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Harnessing a resilient mindset fit for the future workplace
The six minute video above, presented by Tom Gaynor, employee benefits director at MetLife UK, covers: Why are mental health and stress issues in the workplace becoming more prevalent?What role does a challenging environment and changing workplace play in increasing this further?Isn’t stress just a normal part of everyday life?How ...
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Home versus host-based pay in global mobility
The five minute video above, presented by Courtney Ellis-Jones, subject matter expert at The Forum for Expatriate Management, covers: What are the benefits and drawbacks of home and host-based pay in global mobility?What is the major disadvantage to home-based pay with host location tax remittance?What is split pay and where ...
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Why wellness in the workplace matters
The 10 minute video above, presented by Beate O'Neil, head of wellness consulting at Punter Southall Health and Protection, covers: Why are we suddenly seeing such an increase in workplace wellness programmes and why is it important that employers consider their own?How does an organisation go about developing its wellness ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Overcoming barriers to shared parental leave
Families and caring arrangements seem to change with each generation. The days of mothers being expected to leave their work and careers in order to stay at home and take on the lion’s share of care and family responsibilities are now, thankfully, no longer the norm. One of the great ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Is your workplace ready for Rio?
This week finally sees the 2016 Olympics get underway in Rio, after what seems like months of increasingly critical headlines questioning the readiness of the host nation and its ability to successfully stage ‘the greatest show on Earth’.Whether such speculation will ultimately prove to be justified remains to be seen, ...
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OpinionLovewell's Logic: Equality and diversity in a post-Brexit world
Last month, one issue dominated conversations, press coverage, and hearts and minds across the UK: the European Union (EU) referendum.Since the Leave result was announced on 24 June, uncertainty and doubt have prevailed. At the time of writing, this shows no sign of abating as speculation continues about the impact ...
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Philip Wood: Supporting employee health and wellbeing through duty of care
Every employer, whatever the size of its business, has a legal obligation to take all reasonable steps to look after the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees.Organisations need to carry out risk assessments to ensure that their employees do not work excessive hours and provide open communication channels so ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Where does Brexit fallout leave UK pensions?
Ever since the EU referendum result and David Cameron’s subsequent resignation as prime minister, barely a day seems to have gone by without news of political departures and appointments.Last week, it was the turn of Ros Altmann to leave her post of pensions minister. In itself, there is nothing unusual ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Awards success means a great deal
Earlier this week, I was absolutely thrilled when Employee Benefits was named Pension and Benefits Publication of the Year at the 2016 Willis Towers Watson Media Awards for the second consecutive year.Coupled with our lovely deputy editor Louise Fordham taking the prize for HR Technology Journalist of the Year, it ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid celebrates team turnover
I’ve had the most amazing news and I feel like breaking open the Champagne. I’ve not won the lottery or anything, but still it seems a pretty life-changing event: Creepy Caroline has resigned. She is telling everyone that she has got a significantly better job with a household-name organisation. It ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid is swamped with conference calls
Today didn’t begin well. For a start, I had to get out of a nice comfortable bed and go to work. Now I am here, I wonder if I have mistakenly come in on a bank holiday. The office is empty and eerily quiet. My colleague, Lazy Susan, is at ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Cast your votes?
By 7am on Friday 24 June, we should have the results of the EU referendum.Unsurprisingly, this was the main topic dominating conversation at EB Towers yesterday. Political decisions and preferences, of course, played a part in these conversations, but the question we heard more than any other during the course ...
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11: MetLife industry insight - Building resilience to beat stress in the workplace
Box:Around 35% of workplace absence is caused by stressPressure and stress is inevitable in the workplaceBut employees can be helped to beat stress and prevent it becoming a problemOrganisational resilience and wellness strategies will cut stress and boost productivityThe World Health Organisation has identified stress as the “health epidemic of ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 28% rate their intranet as very valuable
EXCLUSIVE: Overall, employer respondents perceive more established forms of technology as holding much greater value for their organisation than some of the newer developments to enter the market, according to the Employee Benefits/Xerox HR Services Benefits research 2016, published in June 2016.On a rating scale of one to five, with ...
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ArticleWhat are the latest developments in employee benefits?
So much has changed in the past 12 years. The world is now a very different place to the one we inhabited in 2004 when Employee Benefits published its inaugural Benefits research.In the reward and benefits arena, for example, pensions simplification was one of the hot topics of the day ...
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ArticleRefocusing benefits strategy can pay dividends
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get,” so said American business magnate and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Warren Buffett.While return on investment (ROI) is a critical measure of success for any business initiative, a number of employers are beginning to shift their focus slightly, so, ...
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OpinionLovewell's Logic: Are paid pre-cations the way forward?
Reading the latest issue of Cosmopolitan last week, I came across a short article looking at one of the newest trends to hit more progressive workplaces across the pond.In the US, some employers are giving newly hired staff two weeks’ paid leave before they join the organisation.The idea behind these ...
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AnalysisWhat is the lie of the land for workplace pension schemes?
In May, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) published its report Value for money in defined contribution (DC) workplace pensions. This considered the definition of value for money in this context, as well as how both members and employers can gain value from their schemes.An increased focus on gaining value from ...