All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 48
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Supplier articleThree ways to strengthen your company culture
Company culture is crucial for any business and organisation - a strong company culture helps to retain top talent, and keeps employees happy, engaged and motivated. The crisis this year has undeniably caused a massive upheaval throughout the global jobs markets. However, now is the time for both HR and ...
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Supplier articleFinancial wellbeing at EDF
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Well-beingA household name in the UK, EDF are the country’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity. With 12,000 UK employees across 25 sites including power stations and customer contact centers, they have a broad and diverse employee population to cater to when it comes to their employee ...
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Supplier articleHow to Maintain a Healthy Diet at Work
When busy at work, a healthy diet can become a bit of an afterthought. But a balanced diet is essential to keep your body functioning properly. Nutrients in food can help repair cellular damage, fuel your body with vitamins and minerals and promote a healthy immune system. Here is how ...
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Supplier article3 insights on connecting employees in times of crisis
Employee engagement may not have been a priority for your leadership team before COVID-19, but if it’s snuck up the list, it's likely because it's a matter of business survival.Whist leaders might not be labelling their crisis response plan as an 'employee engagement strategy,' in the midst of uncertainty, we’ve ...
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Supplier articleHow to Reward Using Flexible Benefits During COVID-19
While there has been a collective effort across the UK to slow the spread of corona virus, there has also been a national effort to keep the economy going too. Staff everywhere have pulled together to help their business through these difficult times. Staff who have been furloughed have shown ...
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Supplier article5 employee benefits to engage your employees this summer
With the current Covid-19 pandemic and drastic changes to the way employees are working and organisations are operating, summer and the summer break may look vastly different to years gone by. There may be little distinction between working from home and some kind of summer break, where often there is ...
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Supplier articleMen & mental health: Expert diagnosis and actions plans from a distance
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development and Marketing, Generali UK Employee BenefitsDue to the constraints of the pandemic, the use of technology to provide mental health support is key. And never more so that for your male employees, for whom confidential, immediate access, support services could literally provide a ...
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Supplier articleWhat Do Employees Want from Their Workplace Benefit Schemes?
When it comes to choosing an employee benefits package, meeting the needs of your entire workforce can seem like a daunting task. On one hand, you’ll want to implement benefits that improve recruitment efforts, whereas on the other hand you’ll need to implement schemes that reward and engage your current ...
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Supplier articleHow Cycling Can Help Employees Manage Mental Health
Even with the current easing of lock down, it’s still hugely important to look after our health and well-being. Many experts agree that exercise is beneficial to mental health, and cycling is an excellent way to fit it into your daily routine.Life is more stressful than usual at the moment, ...
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Supplier articleBest tips for engaging Millennial and Gen Z employees
Millennial employees often get a bad rap for being ‘entitled’, ‘lazy’, ‘job-hoppers’ who would rather waste money on avocado toast than save for a house. Meanwhile, Gen Z are often labelled as ‘socially awkward’ and ‘technology-dependent’. As much as the stereotypes are inaccurate and unhelpful, one thing that shouldn’t be ...
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Supplier articleFour essential Employee Benefits all companies should consider
More so than ever before HR teams are constantly facing the challenge of how to best keep their employees engaged, motivated and dedicated, whilst making sure all spendings and costs are justifiable and the ROI is noticeable, especially when it affects the bottom line. While the vast majority of work ...
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Supplier articlePrevention is better than cure: how health assessments can help employers to support older employees
Injuries and illness happen; it’s simply a fact of life. Knowing your physical health inside and out can be a daunting thought for many - but it goes without saying that the older generation are more prone to health issues.Employers may feel at a loss as to how to support ...
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Supplier articleWhy embracing technology will put the “human” into HR
By Robert Hicks, Group HR Director at Reward Gateway In 1989 when I started my career in McDonald’s, I was told by my then-manager that soon machines would take over most of the cooking. Since then, I have gotten used to hearing that technology would do the tasks which humans ...
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Supplier articleThe importance of technology in improving workplace mental health
The last few weeks have taught us an incredible amount about our psyches and the modern world of work.On the one hand we’ve been reminded of the fragility of our health, instability of our economy, and our dependence on routines. On the other, we've shown our ability to focus on ...
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Supplier articleHow to Step up Your Summer Fitness Routine
Summer is upon us and - maybe now more than ever - we all need a push to help use more physically active. Looking good on the beach can’t be our only incentive! By getting into good habits, your summer fitness routine should continue after holiday season.Why not re-evaluate your ...
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Supplier articleThe importance of recognition in times of crisis
By Kylie Terrell, Employee Engagement Consultant at Reward GatewayThe world has changed. Over the past few months, many of our offices have been stripped of those organic “wow” moments that happen when people are working face-to-face. The hallway high five, the cheers, or (my personal favourite), the sound of a ...
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Supplier article7 HR leaders share their predictions on the future of mental health at work
We asked our community of wellbeing leaders their views on the future of workplace mental health in the months and years to come. Within a few short weeks, the coronavirus turned the working world upside down. One day it was a curious footnote on an international newsreel, the next it ...
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Unmind
Unmind is built on the belief that everyone has the right to a healthy mind.Our workplace mental health platform empowers employees to proactively measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing, while giving managers insight into the mental health of their people, enabling them to drive cultural change.We take a whole-person ...
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Supplier articleHow HR technology is helping us return to the office
By Robert Hicks, Group HR Director at Reward GatewayIn this new world we’re living in, you might forget what day of the week you’re on. But for me, I know that on Fridays, it’s 'survey prep day.’ It’s the first in a series of tactics that I’ve put in place ...
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Supplier article‘Family first’ favoured by employees
The rise in remote working across thousands of locations has put Britain’s work forces through the mill since March. Employers up and down the country have worked tirelessly and creatively to keep their employees motivated and connected while seeking to protect their physical and mental well-being. Technology has most definitely ...