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    Busy Bees Benefits: Is health and wellbeing the answer to business stability?

    2020-07-24T14:42:03Z

    The corona-virus pandemic outbreak has caused uncertainty across businesses from a wide range of industries, causing employers to readjust their budgets and make cuts. Cutting health and well-being benefits, however, could actually affect your business in the long run.Over the last few months, there has been a rise in innovative ...

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    Busy Bees Benefits: Preparing your workplace for a return to work

    2020-07-24T11:25:19Z

    Employers who shut down or reduced their operations at the start of the lock down are now focusing on how to reopen their workplaces. During this time, health and safety considerations are key both from a legal perspective and, more importantly, to ensure your workforce and customers have confidence that ...

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    Dealing with constructive feedback

    2020-07-22T14:53:42Z

    Receiving feedback is a vital way for employees to reflect on their performance at work and take steps to develop and improve it. Unfortunately, the process doesn’t always operate as smoothly as that. According to Kluger and DeNisi, feedback only leads to change in one of the three occasions it’s ...

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    72% of employees want access to a workplace savings scheme

    2020-07-22T08:52:00Z

    92% of employers would implement a workplace savings scheme 87% of employers say financial worries have a negative effect on an employee’s performance According to a recent survey[1], 72% of employees want their employers to offer a workplace savings scheme in addition to ...

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    Approaching difficult conversations in the workplace

    2020-07-21T13:14:31Z

    Like it or not, offices can’t always be harmonious places to work. At some point you’ll need to address an issue with a colleague, but what’s the best way to handle this? According to the Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most book by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and ...

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    How can reward and recognition assist a team to be innovative?

    2020-07-21T10:13:34Z

    Cast your mind back 20 years. Imagine a world of dial up internet, mobile phones just making phone calls, no plethora of online platforms to communicate both personally and professionally? It's mind blowing to see the pace of innovation and development in such a short period time, and it's only ...

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    How to ‘move forwards’ when you ‘go back’ to your workplace

    2020-07-21T08:00:50Z

    Lock down is lifting and little-by-little employees are going back to their workplaces. Restrictions remain and some employers are bringing their teams back on a shared or rota basis. Things will still feel strange and an understandable degree of nervousness exists. But, overall, there is a rising sense that the ...

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    Busy Bees Benefits: What will life after lockdown look like?

    2020-07-17T13:58:07Z

    The last few months have been difficult for individuals, businesses and industries across the country. Even now, with lockdown restrictions being lifted, we know that the world of work and home life will never be the same.The biggest difference between the world of work before and after the coronavirus pandemic ...

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    Busy Bees Benefits: How to Implement an Employee Benefits Strategy

    2020-07-17T12:47:18Z

    When your employees are happy at work, they are more engaged, which boosts productivity levels. Not only this, but engaged and motivated employees can also have a positive effect on your recruitment strategy, with “brand ambassadors” doing wonderful things for your company reputation.Offering a relevant employee benefits package can improve ...

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    Going global

    2020-07-17T10:04:20Z

    After a successful domestic employee benefits launch, many companies begin thinking about implementation in their other locations. But where do you start? What factors do you need to consider and how can you sell this internally?There’s a myriad of reasons why you would wish to roll out a tech solution ...

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    Coping with cancer – the essential role of an employer

    2020-07-17T09:49:03Z

    Catherine Branfoot, Senior Consultant, BenefexI am 26 years old and I’ve just been informed that I have stage 2 breast cancer. The first phone call I make is to my employer. When I went to the hospital to receive my results, I was so confident that the lump I had ...

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    Mass redundancies: How HR can make the hardest conversations better

    2020-07-17T07:47:03Z

    Let’s get things out in the open: Your business may be facing an impossible situation. And sometimes those impossible situations lead to bad news for your employees, such as redundancies.This bad news – telling someone something they do not want to hear is not what people in HR like doing. ...

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    66% of individuals say pensions are far too complicated

    2020-07-16T13:30:00Z

    Low employee engagement rates remain a critical concern Getting employees more engaged with their pensions remains a critical issue for businesses. Recent research[1] from Cushon, the workplace savings and investment platform, found that one of the biggest reasons for this is that pensions are far ...

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    It’s time to take diversity and inclusion seriously

    2020-07-16T09:02:26Z

    Diversity and inclusion in the workplace has been growing in importance in recent years. Apart from the benefits offered by a more diverse and inclusive workforce – for example, improved decision-making, a variety of perspectives and a better company reputation – the Financial Reporting Council, a regulator and operator of ...

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    Employee Engagement for Today’s Workforce

    2020-07-16T07:39:17Z

    It’s no wonder that a new era of employee engagement is upon us. With the combination of ever-changing technology and shifting employee motivation drivers, employers are challenged to build better, stronger, more resilient organisations - in challenging times. In this eBook, Catrin Lewis, Global Head of Engagement and Internal Communications ...

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    The Best Workouts to Relieve Stress

    2020-07-15T13:05:00Z

    The high levels of stress which come with work can interfere with your productivity and performance. It can also affect your physical and emotional health. According to The Health and Safety Executive 2018/2019 Report, 602,000 workers suffer from work-related stress, depression or anxiety. Exercise can help relieve ...

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    3 steps to boost employee motivation

    2020-07-15T07:53:28Z

    Do you know what employees crave in the workplace? Alexandra Powell, Director of Client Culture and Engagement at Reward Gateway, has spent a lot of time working with employers of all sizes to deliver the right tools to help motivate and engage their employees. In this eBook, she shares these ...

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    How to make your employees feel confident about returning to the office

    2020-07-13T15:02:51Z

    As the UK gradually eases its COVID-19 lock down restrictions and people are starting to return to an office environment, an increasing number of businesses are grappling with the issue of just how to allow their staff to come back safely and with confidence. While government guidance states that people ...

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    Arcadis safeguards employee wellness with Gympass partnership

    2020-07-13T07:46:14Z

    Arcadis, the leading global design and consultancy organisation for natural and built assets, has taken steps to safeguard wellness within its workforce by partnering with Gympass, the world’s largest corporate wellness platform.The agreement gives the 3,800-strong Arcadis workforce in UK and Ireland immediate access to the Gympass platform comprising a ...

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    Back to work: Four ways Recognition can help

    2020-07-10T16:02:33Z

    When Covid-19 first began impacting workplaces, we discussed how social recognition could help ease the move to remote working. Now, as the world prepares to head back to a sense of normality, let’s consider how recognition can make the transition back to work as smooth as possible.1- Reconnect your furloughed ...