All Employee Benefits Awards articles – Page 12
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits professional of the year
WINNER Debra Corey, group compensation and benefits director, Merlin EntertainmentsDebra Corey is a much-admired, charismatic and highly respected figure in the employee benefits world. Before joining Merlin Entertainments, she had built up a high profile in reward by taking on the challenges of senior roles at a number of well-known ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Grand Prix
WINNERMcDonald's RestaurantsMcDonald's Restaurants was voted winner of this year's Grand Prix award because of its textbook approach to aligning its reward strategy with the needs of the business and its effective development of an employee brand.The organisation reduced staff turnover and increased sales significantly after discovering a strong correlation between ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Meet the Judges
Panel chairDebi O’Donovan is editor of Employee Benefits and is responsible for editorial strategy across events, web and the magazine.Panel chairDebbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits, is an award-winning journalist who is responsible for news and features across the magazine and website.Panel chairDev Raval is director of reward at ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with more than 1,000 staff
WINNERZurich Insurance, Zurich WellbeingThis entrant not only introduced a raft of measures tailored to address the needs of its workforce, but it also took significant steps to improve employee engagement scores on health and wellbeing.The insurance firm’s health and wellbeing campaign, branded Zurich Wellbeing, was launched in June 2011 and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with fewer than 1,000 staff
WINNERCapital One, Your Health MattersCapital One revamped its health and wellbeing provision for staff with a raft of measures designed to improve fitness, wellbeing and work-life balance.In January 2011, it opened an on-site gym called The Core at its head office in Nottingham. The judges were particularly impressed that employees ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with more than 5,000 staff
WINNERKraft Foods, Simply Rewards, entered by BenefexKraft Foods’ communications strategy was key to successfully integrating reward and benefits across the business after its acquisition of Cadbury.Kraft and Cadbury were coming from different standpoints, cultures and communication styles, so it was essential for communication to achieve parity across the workforce and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with fewer than 5,000 staff
WINNERBromford, Bromford RewardsThis entrant used a multi-faceted communications strategy to promote its retail discount scheme, Bromford Rewards, which was introduced following employee feedback. The company involved its group of employee representatives in developing the project as part of efforts to ensure it reached all sections of the workforce.The judges noted ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees
WINNERMcDonald’s RestaurantsThis entrant significantly reduced staff turnover and increased sales after successfully linking its reward strategy to the needs of the business. The fast food chain discovered a correlation between employee engagement and business performance. For example, in restaurants where staff were engaged, sales were on average 28% higher and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees
WINNERBarbon Insurance GroupThis business was formed in difficult circumstances in 2008. Not only did it have to deal with the fall-out from the financial collapse of its parent company and a decline in profits, but staff turnover was high and increasing, and low levels of morale were contributing to rising ...
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EXCLUSIVE: McDonald's Restaurants wins Grand Prix at Employee Benefits Awards
McDonald’s Restaurants, Merlin Entertainments, BT and Kraft Foods were among the big winners at this year's Employee Benefits Awards, which took place at the Artillery Garden at The HAC on 31 May.McDonald’s Restaurants took the coveted overall Grand Prix prize, plus the category award for ‘Most effective alignment of reward ...
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Winners of the Employee Benefits Awards announced
The 2012 Employee Benefits Awards took place at The Artillery Garden at the HAC in London on 31 May.Hosted by Jason Byrne on behalf of Employee Benefits magazine and celebrating the best in benefits, just 24 winners were selected from 100 finalists.More details and photos will be added to this ...
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GE, Kraft Foods and Virgin Media among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012
GE, Home Retail Group, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s Restaurants and Virgin Media are among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012.Other finalists include:'Benefits team of the year':AvivaCancer Research UKKraft FoodsLinklatersMarks and Spencer'Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees':Everything EverywhereGEGrant ThorntonJLT ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective use of a voluntary benefits plan
WINNERCancer Research UK, CR-UK RewardsThe judges were impressed by this charity organisation’s belief that, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. When Cancer Research UK’s previous voluntary benefits scheme suffered from very low take-up levels, a lack of promotion and a sign-up process that seemed to discourage staff ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective use of a flexible benefits plan
WINNERCisco, i-Benefit@Cisco entered by Thomson Online BenefitsCisco was the outright winner in this category because of its input from top leadership, the speed at which the new package was delivered to staff, its focus on aligning its employee profile and business brand, and the impressive savings worth more than £1 ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective travel strategy for business and perk car drivers
WINNERInterserve Project Services, Fleet Carbon Reduction Scheme entered by The Miles ConsultancyThis entrant’s UK car strategy is closely aligned with its business needs to provide transport for almost 1,300 drivers, as well as its corporate social responsibility goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Almost all the fleet is classified as ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective pensions strategy
WINNERInstitution of Civil Engineers entered by SecondsightThe Institution of Civil Engineers Group dealt with the closure of its final salary pension scheme in a fair and responsible way, while taking into account employees’ negative reactions to the changes. Generous employer-funded contributions were offered for members to sweeten the pill for ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective sickness absence management strategy
WINNERCisco, i-Benefit@Cisco entered byThomsons Online BenefitsAs winner of this category, Cisco demonstrated the implementation of a sickness absence management scheme that reduced the high number of staff on long-term sick leave and tackled the underlying causes of ill-health.With a high-performing culture and long working hours, Cisco was affected by high ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective motivation or incentive strategy
WINNERThe Pensions Trust, Rewards and Benefits ProgrammeA key part of this entrant’s people strategy is what it describes as the deal between the employer and the employee. This refers to what it means to work for The Pensions Trust and the benefits of the employment relationship for both parties. A ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective benefits strategy for working parents or carers
WINNERUniversity of Lincoln, UOL Total Reward and WellbeingThe clear winner in this category, this entrant proved that public sector funding is not an obstacle to offering a wide scope of benefits to achieve a healthy work-life balance.The diverse workforce at the University of Lincoln includes a number of people with ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective all-employee share scheme strategy
WINNERMarks and Spencer, Sharesave 2010 entered by EquinitiThe tough economic climate, coupled with the Treasury’s decision to remove the bonus on three-year sharesave schemes, prompted Marks and Spencer to review its scheme to ensure it continued to be valued as an employee benefit.he company took the bold step of stripping ...