All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 65
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Supplier articleWorld Sight Day highlights the global problems of poor eyesight
This year’s World Sight Day, which took place on Thursday, October 10, has highlighted the global problems associated with poor eye health, which affects millions of people around the world.World Sight Day is intended to raise public awareness of blindness and vision impairment as major international public health issues, as ...
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Supplier article6 Ways employee recognition will boost your employer brand
Lorelei BowmanBranding is a crucial part of your company. It secures recruitment, differentiates you from competitors and introduces your company to prospective customers and the wider industry on both a local and global level.With the internet in full swing and new technology at our fingertips, anyone can create a brand ...
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Supplier articleHR’s personal assistant: Where AI and HR meet
Lorelei BowmanWhen we begin to think about the possibilities of an HR department powered by artificial intelligence, it’s easy to get carried away into a robot-centred daydream. But the reality of AI’s relationship with HR is much less science-fiction, and much closer to home.Today, AI is already at work in ...
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Supplier articleWhen your skills mix changes, should your employee benefits package change too - if so, how?
As the Industrial Revolution changed the face of industry and manufacturing between 1760 and 1840, technology has, and continues to have a similar impact in the way we do business today. According to McKinsey, over the next decade, the need for some skills, such as technological as well as social ...
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Supplier articleHow do millennials want to be recognised at work?
A common challenge for employers is figuring out how millennials want to be recognised at work. Indeed, we cannot talk about employee recognition in a monolithic way. How an employee wants to be recognised can be affected by factors such as the generation the employee belongs to, as this can ...
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Supplier articleThe Health Benefits of Pumpkins
That’s right, pumpkins are more than just a Halloween decoration, more than just a big orange glowing ghostly face.They are in fact secret health benefiters. Oh yes.Did you know:Pumpkins contain up to 3g of fibre, so a handful of seeds or mashed up pumpkin every day sets you on a ...
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Supplier articleVirgin Active launches employee reward and recognition scheme
World’s leading health club rolls out Each Person across all 42 UK health clubsEach Person is an employee reward, recognition and retail discount scheme, powered by epointsEmployees are recognised with digital ecards and rewarded with the epoints currency which can be spent on a wide range of rewardsEmployees are given ...
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Supplier articleBringing your business together with a culture of continuous recognition
by Phil Collin, Senior Client Success Manager at Reward GatewayEvery company wants employees aligned with their vision and values and to improve communication and collaboration between different teams. In this eBook, Torsten Beck, Suncorp's Executive Manager - Benefits, discusses how Suncorp achieved this by using a simple and consistent employee ...
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Supplier articleCreating "happiness" in our employee perks
by Debra Corey, Best-Selling Author & Advisor to Reward GatewayAt least once a week there’s a blog or article written about the weird and wonderful perks that companies are giving their employees. Is there a competition that nobody told me about... has the category of "weirdest perks" been added to ...
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Supplier articleNot all recognition is created equally: How to create a formula that works
by Alex Powell, Director of Client Services at Reward GatewayThese days, companies of all shapes and sizes are embracing employee recognition as a tool to drive engagement, improve morale and combat demotivators in the workplace.A lack of manager-led recognition is often a top reason employee recognition is inconsistent in the ...
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Supplier articleHow raising money for charity helped our employee wellbeing
At Caboodle, we’ve been fundraising for Birmingham-based charity Cure Leukaemia for almost 2 years now. They’re a wonderful charity who help fund specialist Leukaemia nurses up and down the country while fast-tracking pioneering new treatment. Since we started fundraising at the beginning of 2018, we’ve raised over £15,000 for Cure ...
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Supplier article5 ways to make your commute to work less stressful
The average UK commuting time is 54 minutes, while the average for London is 74 minutes. Whether you commute through a busy city or through more rural areas, the work commute will almost always find a way to stress you out. The last thing anyone needs on a cold, rainy, ...
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Supplier articlePhysical wellbeing: Reframing health and building your initiatives
Lorelei BowmanIn part one of our series on physical wellbeing, we discussed the importance of inclusion within wellbeing schemes and the intersection of mental and physical wellbeing. In recent years, it’s become clear that pushing weight loss disguised as ‘wellbeing’ can really do some damage. Let’s recap:On average, girls begin ...
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Supplier articlePhysical wellbeing: Navigating mental wellbeing and inclusion
Lorelei BowmanWe often discuss how employee wellbeing is, broadly speaking, divided into three main pillars: mental, physical, financial (and social, which is becoming more prominent). While this is useful for employers, it can also be helpful to consider employee wellbeing as a multi-axis graph – all employees will be affected ...
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Supplier articleWork-life balance and mental health
With this week being National Work Life Week and today being World Mental Health Day, what better time to talk about the positive effects of a healthy work-life balance on emotional wellbeing?The pressure of a demanding work culture in the UK, alongside that of keeping up with your personal life, ...
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Supplier article14 ways eCards help build an amazing culture of recognition
by Megan Gough, Head of Client Success at Reward GatewayeCards are an easy way to build a culture of continuous recognition for your employees. By customising them to fit your culture and brand, you can use eCards to say a simple "thank you," recognise specific achievements like hitting a quarterly ...
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Supplier articleFinancial wellbeing & pre-emptive education
Gethin Nadin, Director of Employee WellbeingA 2019 report by StepChange called ‘Life Happens’ found that a significant life change, (like separation from a partner, falling ill or becoming a carer) most heavily affects those at highest risk of debt. Typically, we’re talking about parents, renters and low-earners. Almost half (45%) ...
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Supplier articleWhy is financial wellbeing so important?
Money matters affect us all at some point during our lifetime. They can become all-encompassing and change the way we live our lives at home and at work.What factors impact financial wellbeing?Have you ever considered how money concerns affect your employees and their productivity in your workplace?Employers are in a ...
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Supplier article4 Stress-Busting Forms of Exercise
Exercise is a form of physical stress on our bodies, but can physical stress actually relieve mental stress?‘Rest and relaxation’ is a common expression used by many, especially at the end of a busy working day. Although rest really can be relaxing, the phrase often leads people to overlook the ...
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Supplier articleFive common group critical illness cover myths
Research shows that 63% of SME bosses worry their staff may face a benefits protection gap in comparison with workers at larger firms. Yet only 18% of SMEs offer group critical illness cover – making it the least popular group protection cover.1 But why?We debunk five of the top myths ...