All Editorial articles – Page 25
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ArticleAviva offers employees wellbeing day off
Insurer Aviva is giving all of its 16,000 UK employees an extra day off this year to help boost their wellbeing.Employees will be able to use the extra day of leave as they wish and it can be taken at any point during the year, on top of their usual ...
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ArticleJTF Mega Discount Warehouses launches employee assistance programme
Retail store JTF Mega Discount Warehouses has introduced an employee assistance programme (EAP) to further support the wellbeing of its 500 employees during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and beyond.The programme, provided by Westfield Health, offers employees access to professional advice across a range of issues, including stress, depressions, financial wellbeing, ...
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ArticleSalesforce, Microsoft and Apple named best places to work in UK
Salesforce, Microsoft and Apple are among the top 10 employers named in Glassdoor’s UK list of Best Places to Work in 2020.Its annual Employees’ Choice Awards, which is in its thirteenth year, is compiled using data from anonymous postings on Glassdoor’s website.Employee reviews about their jobs, work environment and employers ...
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Article45% of employees do not feel supported by their employer
Under half (45%) of staff believe that their employer is not doing enough to support them, according to research by Tiger Recruitment.The organisation's Salary and Benefits Review 2021, which surveyed 2,126 employees in the UK, found that more than half (51%) of respondents believe their employer could have communicated their ...
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ArticleAllen and Overy resets emergency paid leave days for staff
International law firm Allen and Overy is resetting its emergency paid leave policy to support employees affected by the latest Covid-19 (Coronavirus) lockdown measures.The organisation, which initially offered staff five days of paid emergency leave at the start of a 12-month rolling period, has reset the initiative so that employees ...
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Article20% of staff forced to self-isolate receive no sick pay or wages from their employer
One-fifth (20%) of employees who are forced to self-isolate due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic have received no extra sick pay or wages from their employer, according to a poll conducted by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).The research polled 2,231 people in England and Wales who were working, on furlough, ...
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ArticleB&M rewards 30,000 employees with a week's extra pay
Retail employer B&M is to reward its 30,000 store and distribution employees with a week's extra pay in appreciation of their hard work.The recognition payment, added to employees' next payslip, is to due to the organisation showing strong financial performance during the third quarter of its financial year. To aid ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Making Pay Go Further
Due to economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic in addition to Brexit, many employers have been unable to award pay increases to staff. These factors have in turn been impacting employers in their ability to recruit and retain employees. With this in mind, it’s important to consider how employers ...
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Supplier articleWellbeing Wednesdays: A Christmas wrap-up
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexIn this festive round-up of 2020, we take look back at our employee wellbeing journeys and celebrate the astonishing work that HR leaders did in this tumultuous year. In a session entirely driven by the audience’s questions, this discussion looks ahead at the future of ...
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Supplier articleWhat Government easing of Bike Scheme rules means for employees
Popularity of the Bike Scheme has surged throughout 2020, but actually cycling to work hasn't been possible for many.Remote work and furlough for example have meant employees can't meet the 'qualifying journeys' rule of the scheme.In response to this, the UK Government have eased some of their rules around the ...
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Supplier article5 ways to improve employee wellbeing during the festive period
The festive season is upon us with a week until Christmas! While for many people this brings on much excitement and joy, for others this is not always the case, especially during a global pandemic with so many uncertainties. A lot of stress, anxiety and loneliness is on the cards, ...
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Supplier articleWhat does Long Covid support for employees look like?
By Colin Hawes, Head of Claims , Generali UK Employee BenefitsThe Coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping the globe may in fact constitute a second and more long term illness to follow in its wake, according to recent research. Long Covid is a term being increasingly used to describe illness in people ...
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Supplier articleShould workplace benefits be revised amidst the ‘new way of life’?
A lot has changed since our simpler existence pre-March 2020.; this year life has been unimaginably different with occurrences that no one could have ever predicted, but of course with the bad, has come a substantial amount of good too. Society has been forced to take a ...
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Supplier article5 ways to improve employee engagement through technology
Nathan Wiggett, Client Engagement ConsultantWithin just a few short weeks of 2020, the working world changed drastically. Before Covid, we were socialising in the office, now virtual meetings and online messaging lead as the primary means of communicating with employees in the business. These digital habits are sure to continue ...
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ArticleHargreaves Lansdown signs Race at Work charter to tackle racial inequality
Financial services organisation Hargreaves Lansdown has signed the Race at Work charter, committing to address the issues that employees from ethnic minority groups face in the workplace.The race charter, created in partnership with the UK government and charity Business in the community (BITC), has set out to improve the workplace ...
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Supplier articleGympass publishes Covid-19 Impact Report
Gympass, the world’s biggest corporate wellbeing platform, has released its Impact of Covid-19 in the Fitness & Wellness Universe report. Showing how COVID-19 will continue to impact the fitness industry, it also reveals how corporate wellness is top-of-mind among employers and employees to support people’s health and ...
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Article42% of employees desire less work-related stress in 2021
Just under half (42%) of employees wish to experience less stress at work during 2021, according to research by PayFit.Its report, How UK HR priorities have evolved during the pandemic, which surveyed 2,002 UK workers, also found that 85% have experienced work-related worries since the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic took hold ...
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Supplier articleHow to plan a virtual team building event for remote employees
By Catrin Lewis, Head of Global Engagement and Internal Communications at Reward GatewayFlashback to 7th February 2020. It was the end of an action-packed week where every single Reward Gateway employee had come together at boom!Fest, our biggest internal all-hands employee event.This bi-annual event was a firm favourite among employees. ...
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Supplier articleHow the right systems can help support frontline workers in times of change
By Jenn Bytheway, Employee Engagement Consultant at Reward GatewayWhile the COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for everyone, it has been especially challenging for those on the front lines, who risk their safety every day for the sake of others. As frontline workers continue to go into work every day, whether ...
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Supplier articleVirtual Doctors: the effect of Covid on Digital Healthcare
Prior to 2020, the popularity and use of Virtual GP services and Digital Healthcare had been growing steadily within global employee benefits packages. In some ways, this was in line with the gradual increase of web and video technology, and only slowed by the hesitation of people to engage with ...