All articles by Debbie Lovewell-Tuck – Page 23
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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 ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: All the fun of the fair
Today (Friday 3 June) is quite possibly one of my favourite days of the year. Well, excluding birthdays, Christmas and days spent on sandy white beaches!While we regularly highlight the achievements of employers in the pages of Employee Benefits magazine and on employeebenefits.co.uk, the Employee Benefits Awards and Summer Party ...
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ArticleA matter of starting off on the right foot
Small and start-up organisations are very much like a tight-knit local community in that everyone is likely to know almost everything about everyone else. This makes it much easier to tailor benefits packages to ensure they appeal to the individuals they are offered to.Of course, when they are starting out, ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Are employers and staff aligned on financial wellbeing?
Do your employees know how much you care? When it comes to financial wellbeing support, the answer could well be a resounding ‘no’.According to the results of two research reports published this week, there appears to be something of a disconnect between employers’ and employees’ views on the matter.First, a ...
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38% say flexible working is top influencer of job satisfaction globally
Employees in western countries consider themselves to be happier in their jobs, more loyal to their employers and more productive at work, according to research by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.The Mobility, performance and engagement report, which is based on the self-assessment of 1,865 ...