All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 61
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Supplier articleWhat is the Best Time to Look for a New Job?
We love to eat ice-creams in the summer heat and a hot coffee in the cold winter days. There is a specific season for everything. Yes, the same rule applies to the job-hunting process as well. There are millions of people who are looking for a new job, or they ...
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Supplier articleBlog: EMEA organisations are faced with employee engagement barriers
Only 23% of organisations in EMEA class themselves as tech innovators.HR and benefits teams in EMEA need the right technology in place to deliver on their engagement objectives. However, a lack of C-suite or board-level buy-in is one of the main barriers to investing in new technology.Thomsons Online Benefits’ blog ...
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Supplier articleEmployee recognition programmes – just why are they so important?
One of the biggest misunderstandings in business is that remuneration is the key driver of motivation in the workplace. A new research conducted by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans, shows that more than 80 percent of US employees say they do not feel properly appreciated or rewarded, ...
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Supplier articleBlog: Supporting your employees with their mental wellbeing
26% of employees don’t have time to address their mental wellbeing due to the long hours they work.Thomsons Online Benefits’ research found that many of the barriers preventing employees from improving their own mental wellbeing are associated with the workplace. The support you can offer, as well as your workplace ...
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Supplier articleHow does an employee recognition programme affect employee engagement?
Recognising and rewarding the great work that employees do is essential to driving employee engagement. For employees to feel focused, driven, and committed at work each day, it’s important that they see the meaningful difference that their projects are making – and employee recognition is one way of achieving this ...
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Supplier articleInfographic: Supporting your employees with their financial wellbeing
29% of your employees losing sleep over how to save for the future.Your employees are at different stages along the financial wellbeing pathway. Some may be struggling to balance their spending with their earnings, while others may be close to achieving financial freedom.Whatever their financial situation, they are all looking ...
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Supplier articleWhat role does gender play in financial wellbeing?
The Employer’s Guide to Financial Wellbeing 2019-20 is the second annual survey of UK employees. The guide highlighted some striking differences between men and women’s financial wellbeing. When it comes to low financial wellbeing, on the surface it appears that women are impacted far more than men - 41% ...
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Supplier article5 employee engagement challenges keeping HR Directors up at night
The role of HR within organisations has evolved and expanded over the last two decades. It is now seen as a critical part of running a successful organisation. Human resources directors are responsible for far more than hiring and firing or smoothing over internal incidents! In fact, given the breadth ...
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VideoVideo: Benefits priorities in EMEA
Enhancing employee engagement is one of the top objectives for EMEA organisations. To hear about how adopting technology can help achieve this objective, Thomsons Online Benefits’ Managing Director, Chris Bruce, has recorded a two-minute video giving his thoughts on benefit priorities for EMEA organisations. In the video ...
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Supplier articleInfographic: Innovation generation: Priorities for EMEA
Are you analysing your data to increase employee engagement?Thomsons Online Benefits have released a new infographic, ‘Innovation generation: priorities for EMEA’, which highlights our key research findings on one easy-to-digest page.Read the infographic for how organisations in EMEA are collecting and analysing employee data to enhance the employee experience. And ...
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Supplier articleSeven steps to take care of your total wellbeing every day
Take care of your total wellbeing with C.L.A.N.G.E.R.SNo, we’re not talking about the much-loved children’s TV show. But daily habits that you can adopt that are good for your everyday health and increase your ability to bounce back when life throws an unexpected curveball.In 2008, research by the New Economics ...
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Supplier articlePension withdrawals top £30bn
Since pension freedoms were introduced by George Osborne in 2015, there is no doubt drawing down a pension pot is becoming the most popular method by which a person accesses their pension fund after age 55.It’s interesting that the amount of withdraws is rising as the statistics show savers withdrew ...
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Supplier articleRecognition: Using behavioural insight to embrace change and stay relevant
“Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.”Li Keqiang, Chinese politicianThis is a fine sentiment – but how do you innovate if change, by human nature, is what we are most afraid of? “We’ve always done it that way,” is a phrase that is used a lot in organisations; ...
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Supplier articleGlocalisation: achieving your global benefits aims with local tailoring
Previously, we looked at how a global health and wellbeing strategy has endless possibilities, and takes many forms. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a written down, set-in-stone, one-size-fits-all approach.Whilst a global healthcare setup is important to any international organisation, the challenge is to achieve a balance between the company’s ...
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Supplier articleThe Importance of employee motivation in the workplace
The success of any organisation is greatly dependent on its employees. Keeping workers motivated is paramount; an engaged workforce means highly productive staff who will ultimately help you achieve your business goals.Employees want to feel like they have a purpose and are contributing to a greater cause. In today’s demanding ...
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Supplier articleWhat makes employees happy at work?
The average person spends more than 90,000 hours in total at work in their lifetime. Pretty daunting! Especially if you’re unhappy at work.So, what’s the key to a happy career? There’s wants and needs that our job must fulfil that we might never even consider.For example, we all need a ...
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Supplier article7 Creative employee benefits to set your organisation apart
When waging the war for talent, unique employee benefits are the ones which will give you the competitive edge in recruitment. When trying to retain good employees amid the job-hopping culture, creative employee benefits are the ones which provide ongoing excitement and recognition to existing employees. A few years ago, ...
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Supplier articleWhy businesses need to 'pay it forward' with Employee Engagement
We live in a time of peak employment with fewer people out of work and the best talent in high demand. That’s why business leaders are increasingly focused on figuring out why staff come to work and what makes them perform to their greatest potential.For a long time the answer ...
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Supplier article5 ways to make your reward programme more effective
While many companies are looking to improve their rewards offering to employees, getting it right can be a major challenge.While more and more companies have the right idea when it comes to introducing effective rewards programs, research by Deloitte shows that currently rewards programs aren’t meeting the needs of employees.Deloitte’s ...
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Supplier articleHow benefits broking can change your life
Benefex’s Corporate Benefits department is integral to our organisation’s success, and they can also be hugely influential on the success of your employee benefits scheme!I recently joined Benefex Financial Solutions – the broking arm of Benefex, also known as the ‘Corporate Benefits’ team – and like many people, I had ...