All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 61

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    Aligning benefits and business

    2020-01-07T15:01:35Z

    How can you build or adapt your benefits scheme to ensure it aligns with your business strategy?Anecdotally, it seems that even the most successful employees are missing one thing from their working lives: value. Do they see the value in the work they’re doing? Do they feel valued for the ...

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    Make your office more eco-friendly office in 7 ways

    2020-01-05T11:17:11Z

    Modern companies love to support green facing brands. Making the switch to become a more eco-friendly office doesn’t mean making radical changes to your workplace. It can be as simple as turning the computer off when it’s not in use.There are hundreds of things that can allow you to feel ...

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    Increasing engagement with total rewards

    2020-01-03T11:45:49Z

    Eight in ten employees underestimate the value of their total reward by up to 30%.When you think about this, it’s absolute madness that the majority of people who work for your company have no idea what they get. A new generation is entering the workforce, bringing a very different set ...

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    6 steps employers can take to help employees who are retiring in 2020

    2020-01-03T11:22:03Z

    The New Year is the perfect time for employees to take stock of their finances and those who are approaching retirement will have a number of decisions to make given the freedom and choice in pensions. Many will turn to their workplace for support with this. Therefore WEALTH at work ...

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    What is the Best Time to Look for a New Job?

    2020-01-03T10:38:58Z

    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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    Blog: EMEA organisations are faced with employee engagement barriers

    2019-12-20T10:02:05Z

    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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    Employee recognition programmes – just why are they so important?

    2019-12-20T09:30:16Z

    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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    Blog: Supporting your employees with their mental wellbeing

    2019-12-19T11:04:34Z

    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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    How does an employee recognition programme affect employee engagement?

    2019-12-17T09:57:22Z

    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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    Infographic: Supporting your employees with their financial wellbeing

    2019-12-17T09:29:36Z

    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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    What role does gender play in financial wellbeing?

    2019-12-17T09:13:44Z

    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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    5 employee engagement challenges keeping HR Directors up at night

    2019-12-16T09:18:45Z

    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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    Video: Benefits priorities in EMEA

    2019-12-12T09:25:00Z

    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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    Infographic: Innovation generation: Priorities for EMEA

    2019-12-11T11:05:42Z

    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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    Seven steps to take care of your total wellbeing every day

    2019-12-09T10:42:10Z

    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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    Pension withdrawals top £30bn

    2019-12-09T10:37:34Z

    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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    Recognition: Using behavioural insight to embrace change and stay relevant

    2019-12-06T16:44:26Z

    “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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    Glocalisation: achieving your global benefits aims with local tailoring

    2019-12-06T16:36:53Z

    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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    The Importance of employee motivation in the workplace

    2019-12-06T16:33:17Z

    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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    What makes employees happy at work?

    2019-12-02T10:43:47Z

    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 ...