All Employee engagement articles – Page 120
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Supplier articleHow to make your employees feel confident about returning to the office
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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ArticlePricewaterhouseCoopers, NHS and IBM named best employers for equality and inclusion
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), NHS employers and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) have been recognised as three of the best employers for equality and inclusion.The virtual ENEI Awards held 8 July 2020, saw 25 businesses win accolades across 20 categories and a further 22 entries being highly commended for their efforts.PWC was ...
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Supplier articleHow to maintain an inclusive culture during times of change
In the course of the pandemic, businesses everywhere have been forced to make difficult decisions to ensure their future. While we’ve seen many close their doors either permanently or temporarily, others have used the support from the Corona-virus Job Retention Scheme (aka the Furlough Scheme) to preserve jobs and cash ...
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Supplier articleHow to ensure your employee recognition programme is frequent and inclusive
We’re currently living through a period of unparalleled change, and change is always difficult to manage. According to ChiefExecutive.net, the acronym VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) could be used to describe the last few decades, but it’s probably never been more relevant than at this current moment. To ensure ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Preparing for life post-lockdown
Saturday 4 July will see a large number of businesses open for the first time in several months as the government continues to ease lockdown. Overall, it has been estimated that nearly two-thirds of Britons will return to the workplace by the end of August.While this is undoubtedly a positive ...
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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 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 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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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid considers pay cuts
You might have noticed that occasionally I step away from benefits to look at compensation instead. I rather like these opportunities. After the complexity of pensions regulation and global healthcare differences, base pay is, well, pretty basic. Or at least it was.Only a couple of months ago, we agreed pay ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 47% of employers say budget is the biggest barrier in improving engagement
Just under half (47%) of employers say their budget is their biggest barrier for not improving employee engagement levels.The Employee Benefits research 2020, published in May 2020, which surveyed 269 HR decision-makers, found that this is little change from the 51% who found this to be a key issue in ...
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Supplier articleLoneliness Awareness Week: New Research Shows Impacts of Lockdown on Employees Connectedness
Social connectedness is critical for good health and as humans we are naturally social beings. We thrive off human connection and naturally seek these interactions out in our day-to-day lives. Traumatic events and crises, from natural disasters, wars and global pandemics such as the one we’re currently facing can heighten ...
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Supplier articleEngagement Excellence Live is going virtual!
Great news: our popular Engagement Excellence Live seminar series is going virtual!Join us on Wednesday 22nd July at 1 - 4:30 PM BST for our first virtual event of Engagement Excellence Live in the U.K., where we’ll host live and interactive keynotes from HR Heroes and thought leaders.During this interactive ...
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Supplier articleTop strategies for promoting balance in the COVID-19 era
Many workers are having to deal with the blurring of their home and work lives as they navigate enforced working from home during the pandemic. For all employees, the economic impacts of COVID-19 and the lockdown create uncertainty, and likely increased pressure to deliver at work. According to research conducted ...
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Supplier article40 ideas to improve company culture and boost morale
Between forgetting what day it is, not knowing what your weekend plans look like or when you’ll see your work buddies again for a pint at the local pub, the pandemic has taken a toll on many, including your employees who are navigating temporary remote work.But along the road to ...
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Supplier article10 employee morale boosters to engage your team
The new norm has changed the way we function, operate and go about our daily lives, both professionally and personally.As of late, we often do not even know what day it is as our daily structure and routines have been altered and re-altered.There’s a need now more than before, especially ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 86% of organisations measure employee engagement
EXCLUSIVE: 86% of organisations surveyed this year stated that they measure employee engagement levels, an increase from 80% in 2019.This is a stark growth in the popularity of gauging engagement since 2012, when only 40% measured whether their benefits package was effective.The Employee Benefits research 2020, published in May 2020, ...
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Supplier article4 budget-friendly employee engagement ideas in challenging times
In today’s ever-changing world, we’re seeing many HR teams striving to do more with less. Creating an environment fit for agile HR project management has become even more important, and depending what your organisation’s focus is right now, you might be considering a number of new initiatives. As you ...
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Supplier articleThe New Normal: The Role of Line Managers
As a manager, you are responsible for the productivity, wellbeing and progression of your team. Businesses and organisations all around the world have had to deal with a lot of change recently and managers are now overseeing an increasingly remote and dispersed workforce. This creates new challenges for leaders who ...
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ArticleUniversity of Reading celebrates employees' sustainable actions
The University of Reading has held a virtual celebration for employees to recognise the sustainable actions resulting from participation in its interactive sustainability and wellbeing engagement programme.Through the initiative, provided by Jump, academic staff have been able to compete against one another, as both individuals and teams, to reach the ...
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OpinionTina McCorkindale: Challenges of employee engagement in the future
The future of employee engagement will be filled with many opportunities and challenges, some accelerated by the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Looking into the crystal ball of business, there are five challenges that will impact the future of employee engagement.Managing the gig economyIn the September 2019 Institute for Public Relations (IPR) ...