All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 114
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Personalisation and customisation in communication
The digital transformation of our economy offers significant opportunities for retailers to reach customers on their terms. To realise those opportunities, it’s vital to understand a critical distinction: there’s a big difference between personalisation and mass customisation.That’s not to say there isn’t value in in targeting certain groups of customers ...
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Five ways to make your employee focus group session a success
by Debra Corey, group reward director You just planned and booked what you thought was the perfect vacation for you and your family. You call everyone together to share the great news and instead of receiving sounds of glee and delight, you receive groans and complaints.Your youngest says: "I hate ...
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Video – how to encourage more physical activity at work
by Nick Hudson, head of physical wellbeingAs the seasons change, it can be tough to know what sort of exercise to take part in. But research has shown – no matter what the weather – that there’s a huge benefit to exercising outdoors. So whether you’re fighting off the last ...
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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received in the course of your career?
International Women’s Day (8th March) is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. In honour of the occasion, we asked women from across Conduent one question: what’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received in the course of your career?Below, Devisa Ransom, manager of ...
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Changes to childcare voucher system to be rolled out early 2017
By Jonathan Watts-Lay, director, WEALTH at workChanges to the childcare voucher system will be rolled out from early 2017. Parents who are already members of the current childcare voucher system can continue in it, providing their employer will still provide access to it; new members will also have the opportunity ...
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It’s time to move on from ‘millennials’
by Sophie GaneWhy are we so obsessed with the term ‘millennial’? What exactly does it mean? And why is everyone inside and outside of this group so dismissive of the term? Businesses must find a way to refer to their colleagues as individuals, or they’ll start to lose out when ...
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User experience (UX) and employee benefits schemes
by Sophie GaneNo matter how wonderful a product can be, its usability can make or break how much you value it. I had been meaning to read Les Misérables, but honestly the thought of lugging around a book which can double-up as an igloo brick had completely negated any interest ...
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Happiness versus engagement – how one unhappy employee made me question our ‘why’
by Glenn Elliott, CEO and Founder A lot of people get happiness and engagement confused. The internet is full of websites, products and eBooks claiming quick fixes to employee happiness and resulting magical impacts on productivity, much of it missing the point completely. Even at home, Reward Gateway had “Let’s ...
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Women and financial wellbeing
By Monica Kalia, co-founder and chief strategy officerI’ve worked for the last 20 years within the financial services sector and began my career in investment banking. In 2014 I co-founded Neyber having identified that a technology based solution was needed to revolutionise personal finance and help drive financial wellbeing.I’m passionate ...
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Measuring the value of your employee wellbeing initiative
Employee wellbeing is on everyone’s minds, but what’s it really doing? Watch an interview with the Reward Gateway wellbeing team on how to properly calculate your own employee initiative ROI, and how to look at the ‘intangible’ VOI (value on investment), too.Click here to watch the video.
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How to encourage more physical activity at work
Struggling with a 3pm slump or lack of motivation to get moving at the office? Watch an interview with the Reward Gateway wellbeing team on eight new ideas on getting your team up and about to boost employee wellbeing.Click here to view the video.
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Key points of the 2017 Spring Budget
by Adam Mason, consulting directorFor those fellow early-morning dog walkers out there, you will have no doubt noticed the lighter mornings that signal Spring is on the horizon, and with that the need to banish the torch at least for what we hope is until autumn. Furthermore, many of you ...
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How your mental health affects employee’s financial wellbeing
by Gethin Nadin, director of EcosystemsIt has been suggested that economics is a branch of psychology. So it stands to reason that an individual’s attitude to financial wellbeing is rooted firmly in their mentality.In 2002, I graduated with a degree in psychology. Although useful at times – particularly when watching ...
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Neyber offers fair finance to improve financial wellbeing
Fair finance is accessible to 700,000 employees, thanks to Neyber. This figure is due to rise to over one million in 2017.Neyber is currently delivering borrowing and financial education to employees of over 60 companies and is also available via 14 employee benefit platforms. Neyber has also partnered with Police ...
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Guide to understanding childcare voucher changes
In March 2016, the government announced that it would be rolling out a new tax-free childcare scheme in early 2017. As a HR professional, you’re probably already thinking about how it will work, what it means for the current childcare voucher scheme, and what you should be doing to help ...
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Spring Budget 2017 – summary of changes and commentary
The chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond, has today delivered this year’s Budget Report. Please see our summary below.Income taxFor individuals, there were no changes to income tax allowances other than what was already known; the income tax personal allowance will increase from £11,000 to £11,500 with effect from 6 ...
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Reward Gateway encourages female staff to take afternoon off for International Women’s Day
Employee engagement company Reward Gateway is supporting International Women’s Day by encouraging all female staff to take the afternoon off to take part in educational and volunteering work.Reward Gateway has achieved a 50:50 male-to-female ratio, as well as no gender pay gap and volunteers all information in regular diversity reports. ...
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Stand up and celebrate International Women’s Day
by Glenn Elliott, CEO and founder, Reward Gateway It’s International Women’s Day today and at Reward Gateway, we’re marking it with the publication of our second diversity report and a whole programme of events.Our diversity stats show that 50% of our workforce is female. Of that, 48% of leadership and ...
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Research: one in seven employees will have a serious absence this year
Research commissioned by Ellipse in October 2016 has found that one in seven employees have been absent from work for four weeks or more in the last year. This challenges previously published government statistics (one in 18) and suggests that the risk of long-term absence is now higher than previously ...
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Pension Advice Allowance – response from WEALTH at work
From April 2017, the new Pension Advice Allowance will allow individuals to withdraw £1,500 tax-fee from their pensions, to help them pay for the cost of regulated financial advice for their retirement.It will enable individuals to withdraw £500 from their pensions, at any age and up to three times, but ...