All Employee engagement articles – Page 135
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Supplier articlePodcast: How to create your benefits ecosystem
The industry’s first and only podcast series is back, delving deeper into what employers need to do to rise to the top of the market with their benefits programme, and stay there! Listen to our industry experts break daunting subjects down into easy-to-understand, bite-sized nuggets, with top ...
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ArticlePoll: 46% believe a good work-life balance is their organisation’s top engagement driver
Employee Benefits poll: More than two-fifths (46%) of respondents believe that having a good work-life balance is the top engagement driver at their organisation.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 48 responses, also found that 29% of respondents feel that their organisational culture is the strongest engagement driver for ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid gets an apprentice
I’ve been aware of a new presence in HR. A tall skinny girl has been spending a lot of time by the coffee machine. She’s also been spotted in the ladies, making adjustments to thick black eyebrows and unnaturally long lashes. I didn’t realise she worked here, because, well, I ...
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Supplier articleFixed or growth mindset – what does it mean for employee recognition?
By Jacqueline BenjaminCarol Dweck is a psychologist at Stanford University whose theories on the psychology of skills and talent could have a major bearing on the way that companies interact with their employees. Her book, Mindset, established the idea of ‘Fixed Mindsets’ and ‘Growth Mindsets’. Individuals with a fixed mindset ...
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ArticleCambridge Design Partnership launches employee ownership trust
Technology consultancy organisation Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) has launched an employee ownership trust.The Cambridge-based organisation, which employs 120 scientists across the UK and California, has transferred its equity into an employee ownership trust. This was in part financed by a loan from Barclays, which was completed last week.CDP decided to ...
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ArticlePR organisation Bottle pays to take staff to music festival
Oxford-based public relations organisation Bottle has taken its employees on a four-day, employer-funded trip to a music festival to boost employee engagement and creativity.The organisation paid to take its 24 staff to Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire between 2 and 5 August 2018. Bottle covered the cost of employees’ festival tickets, ...
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Supplier articleSix ways our clients overcome challenges with employee engagement
By Ren Patel, UK Client Success Director Partnering with more than a thousand clients in the UK means we’re privileged to work with a lot of inspirational and forward-thinking people. As the UK Client Success Director, my team and I are able to help clients turn their challenges into successes ...
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Supplier articleWhy storytelling is a powerful employee benefits tool
By Debra Corey, Group Reward Director Let me tell you a story… it’s about how we used storytelling at Reward Gateway to connect our people to our new employee wellbeing benefit, using the power of storytelling to ensure the benefit was not just understood, but shouted from the rooftops!But before ...
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Supplier articleHow to increase benefits engagement: A guide
If you want to engage more effectively, you need to explore different ways to get your employees interested. In this guide, we’ll share ten tips for getting – and keeping – your employees connected with your benefits programme, so both your workforce and your company get the full value from ...
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Supplier articleHow-to guide: Boost your benefits strategy to connect with your people
Thomsons Online Benefits’ recent research has highlighted that employers need to take a step back and look at their benefits strategy as a whole.Those who are leading the way have reviewed, aligned and optimised all the components of their benefits strategy. And they’re reaping the rewards; they’ve been able to ...
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ArticleReward and recognition identified as top engagement driver for MENA employees
Reward and recognition is the strongest engagement driver for employees based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to research by global professional services firm Aon.Its 2018 Trends in Middle East and North Africa employee engagement report, which surveyed 258,662 employees across 211 MENA-based organisations working in 28 ...
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Supplier articleThe multiplier effect in Employee Engagement
The race to acquire, engage and retain the right employees in a business is ongoing and as always, ever-challenging. Competition is high, turnover is expensive and employees want job satisfaction and to be engaged more so than ever before. Employee engagement is one area which all HR teams and leaders ...
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Supplier articleAre you listening to your employees?
Your employees can tell you exactly what your benefits programme should look like, but are you listening?Our research found that what today’s employees really want is a range of benefits, accessible in a variety of ways, to help them achieve their personal goals. Organisations need to look at how they ...
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ArticleB Braun Medical holds learning and personal development week
Sheffield-based healthcare organisation B Braun Medical has hosted a learning and personal development week for its 1,400 employees.The Learnfest Week, which was held between 11 and 15 June 2018, was designed to encourage employees towards lifelong learning opportunities, support personal development and drive improvements in productivity.Over the course of the ...
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Supplier articleEngage or die: Act fast on engagement and outpace the competition
Written by Ruth Chapman, Senior Marketing Manager, Achievers EMEAThe latest report from Gallup states that just 1 in 10 UK and EU workers are actively engaged and with UK productivity seeing further falls during 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics – it is no surprise that the UK ...
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ArticleBarclays, Herbert Smith Freehills and Vodafone recognised as top global employers for LGBT staff
Barclays, Herbert Smith Freehills (pictured), the Royal Bank of Scotland, Vodafone and Zurich Insurance Group are among the organisations recognised on the Top Global Employers 2018 list, compiled by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality charity Stonewall.The list, now in its seventh year, celebrates organisations that are striving to ...
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Supplier articleProductivity = putting people first
By Denise Willett, senior directorWith employee engagement and productivity lower in Britain than global averages, we have a real opportunity to change the dreaded “productivity in Britain” conversation with some fundamental shifts:ListenEmpower employees by giving them an avenue to provide feedback in real-time. Engagement is fluid and how we feel ...
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Supplier articleReward Gateway acquires US employee engagement specialist brand Integrity
Global employee engagement company Reward Gateway announced today that it has acquired Brand Integrity, a 15-year-old employee engagement specialist operating from Rochester, N.Y.The addition of Brand Integrity’s operations more than doubles Reward Gateway’s U.S. team and adds new clients committed to employee engagement, including Rite-Aid, Constellation Brands, and Excellus BlueCross ...
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ArticleWomen and Equalities Committee says government is failing to enforce age discrimination laws
Discrimination is the root cause of the fact that more than one million individuals in the UK aged 50-plus are not working, despite being willing to do so, according to a report published today (17 July 2018) by The Women and Equalities Committee.The report on older people and employment also ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Reward Gateway acquires US employee engagement specialist Brand Integrity
EXCLUSIVE: Global employee engagement and HR technology provider Reward Gateway announced today (17 July 2018) that it has acquired Brand Integrity, an employee engagement specialist operating from Rochester, New York.Brand Integrity, founded in 2002, is an employee engagement technology and consulting organisation that works with clients across 25 industries, including ...