All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 42
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Supplier articleWhat does gamification in employee recognition really mean?
By Chloe Deiulis, Head of Content Strategy at Reward GatewayWelcome back to RG Blog Live! After our first two episodes, we took a pause so that we could focus on helping you to support your employees and businesses through the pandemic. Now we are back with our third and final ...
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Supplier articleHow to communicate with remote workers
By Alana Kiner, Client Success Manager at Reward GatewayAt the start of the pandemic, many companies whose workforces were entirely office-based had to transition overnight to being fully remote. Keeping employees connected, engaged and happy was a challenge many businesses faced.One of our clients, C Space, encountered these issues as ...
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Supplier articlePing pong holds the secret to post-Covid employee benefits
Employee Benefits. Table Tennis. There’s not an obvious connection. But the attitudes towards this mini game of back and forth could be telling.It’s March 2020, and things are a bit weird. Scrap that, things are unprecedented. We’re all being confined to our homes to escape a threat that we don’t ...
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Supplier articleFive ways to support your employees’ mental health in the workplace
2020 has been – oh, go on, let’s say it – an unprecedented year: COVID-19 has brought unforeseen challenges and upheaval on a huge scale, fundamentally changing the way we socialise, travel, shop and work. Successful organisations have remained sensitive to these developments and conscious of their inevitable toll on ...
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Supplier articleBloomberg Podcast: Working From Home Ultimately Hurts Businesses
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares a big push to get workers back into office buildings, Dan Vahdat, CEO of digital health and therapeutics company Huma, joins Daybreak Europe’s Roger Hearing to discuss the disconnect between some employers and workers on heading back into offices. Click here ...
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Supplier articleThe age of agility: Flexible, adaptable and resilient benefits
Thomson’s Online Benefits’ latest report looks at the shifting objectives of over 500 HR and benefits professionals at multinational organizations, specifically as they relate to benefits and technology. With over 2000 individuals surveyed, Thomson’s findings reveal if the benefits and technology experience employees receive from employers measures ...
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Supplier articleWhat does Reward and recognition mean to you?
Reward and recognition go hand-in -hand, yet are two different components. Recognition is often viewed as the cause, and reward as the effect. Employee reward and employee recognition both have important roles to play in engaging and motivating staff so it’s no surprise that many HR professionals have taken to ...
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Supplier articlePost-lockdown anxiety – a real ‘thing’ or all in our heads?
A big congratulations to each and every one of us – we’ve managed to get through the last few months of life in lockdown. The restrictions are now easing, life is starting to return to some sort of normality and you can finally get to the hairdressers to get that ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Motivating & Rewarding Employees in 2021
There are many economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. One of the most pressing ones if the challenge of how to best manage the motivation and engagement of employees to drive business innovation and increase business productivity and profitability. In the new “normal,” businesses have to reassess their working processes ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: The long-term effect of low pay
To increase engagement at work, companies often motivate talent and encourage employees to keep delivering through competitive salaries. When a business fails to provide employees with competitive rates of pay, there are many long-term effects.However, with the UK in a recession, providing this financial benefit is slightly more difficult. Fortunately, ...
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Supplier articleOvercoming the challenge of communicating with a dispersed workforce
Whether employees were working on-site or remotely following the start of COVID-19, companies were in need of better strategies for communicating with, connecting and recognising their employees. While many businesses struggled, some used this challenging time as an opportunity to grow connections amongst their dispersed work forces.At the start of ...
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Supplier articleSantander shares insight on building a ‘truly inclusive’ organisation
Diversity and inclusion are increasingly prominent in business strategies but there remains a world of difference between meeting the mandate set by law and being a truly inclusive company.Santander UK places a high value on diversity and inclusion and has invested significant time and resources into this area of employee ...
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Supplier articlePart two: How should you respond to the results of your employee engagement survey?
In our previous article, we outlined best practices to follow when analysing the results of employee engagement surveys. This article serves as a companion piece to the previous text and suggests ways to take action that are informed by the feedback and suggestions delivered by research into employee engagement.Make your ...
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Supplier articleTravel Accounts: How missed holidays in 2020 will impact productivity
Holidays are the focal point of almost all employees’ lives, they give us the chance to relax and unwind, recover and recharge. However, 2020 has wreaked havoc on our plans, and for many made a holiday away from home and impossible dream.Unfortunately, the implications of this are more severe than ...
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Supplier articleExploring 5 benefits of digital employee recognition
With the onset of COVID-19 forcing the majority of the global workforce into remote work, companies are finding that their old methods of recognising, connecting and supporting employees are no longer effective. As morale waivers amidst the uncertainty in the world, it is more important than ever for employees to ...
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Supplier article6 Tips to Get Back to Fitness After Lockdown
Some of us took our fitness to the next level during lockdown while some of us have seen personal fitness sink to the bottom of our priority list for understandable reasons. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the power of good health. Here are some ...
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Supplier articleIdeas for retailers to improve employee engagement during times of change
When the global pandemic began, companies scrambled to find quick ways to communicate important information to their dispersed work forces. As offices, stores and businesses were closing, more employees were working from home and the uncertainty in the world decreased employee morale.Fortunately, this wasn’t the case for Dunelm, a high-volume ...
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Supplier articleA Toxic Work Environment
Toxic workplaces have been one of the most talked about topics in recent months. Especially after employees of the Ellen DeGeneres Show described a toxic work culture in which many claim to have experienced fear, racism and a general disregard for their health and wellbeing. It’s normal ...
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Supplier articleNew research on how businesses and employees are planning their return to work
With the recession as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative that businesses are able to return to normal operations as quickly as possible. While many organisations have functioned effectively during lockdown, few have been able to operate at full capacity. While there will be a continued role ...
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Supplier articlePost viral fatigue for COVID-19 survivors
You contracted COVID-19, but weren’t ill enough to need hospitalisation. You battled through the acute stages of the illness yourself, and now your temperature is back to normal and your cough has subsided. You’ve started feeling better, but it’s a few weeks down the line and you’re still finding it ...