All Employee engagement articles – Page 148
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Case StudiesArup employees engage with group risk benefits
The organisation feels that providing protection for its employees is necessary to protect the business.It offers four different types of group risk cover: life assurance at four-times salary, income protection, critical illness insurance and personal accident insurance.Evan Davidge, head of reward at Arup, says: “We have a moral responsibility to ...
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ArticleClothes2Order introduces emergency loans for staff
Clothes2Order has introduced emergency loans for its 90 members of staff as part of a new employee benefits package.Cash advances of up to a month’s wages are being offered, and repayments will be made from employees’ salaries over a six-month period.The clothing supplier is implementing the loan scheme to help ...
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AnalysisHow to build engagement with voluntary benefits
If you read nothing else, read this…A voluntary benefits scheme needs to be well communicated and promoted to ensure employees engage with it.Using benefits champions and savings examples can help engage staff with the scheme.Communications must be ongoing and kept relevant to maintain employee engagement.But for a scheme to be ...
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Case StudiesMerseyrail drives business engagement through voluntary benefits
The train operating company introduced its staff discount scheme, ‘Benefits for you’, five years ago with Personal Group. While employees have access to offers including cinema vouchers, holiday discounts and reloadable cards, the organisation uses the scheme as a way of driving employee engagement and increasing discretionary effort.Andy Parry, head ...
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ArticleKantar adds holiday trading to flex
EXCLUSIVE: Kantar has added holiday trading, enabling staff to buy and/or sell holiday in 15-minute slots, to its flexible benefits scheme.This follows its move to monthly enrolment windows for its 3,124 UK staff.To date, 87% of employees have logged into its flexible benefits website. Kantar has also had 10,606 logins ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: What makes a destination employer?
Google and Innocent Drinks are two such employers that immediately spring into my mind, but there are, of course, many, many more.But what is it that makes these organisations such desirable employers? How have they earned such a reputation? And what can other employers replicate in order to elevate their ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: How much freedom should employers give staff?
In it, the agency’s co-founder Jenny Biggam explained why the organisation has done away with a number of typical workplace conventions in order to give its staff greater freedom. This includes doing away with job titles and enabling staff to contribute their skills in order to shape the company; flexible-working ...
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ArticleSAB Miller to invest in staff motivation
SAB Miller is to invest in implementing new initiatives across the organisation to help improve staff motivation. Its Annual report 2015 highlighted that 64% of employees who participated in its engagement poll believe they receive appropriate recognition from the organisation.The beer and soft drinks brewer, which owes the Meantime Brewing ...
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Article35% of Gen Z expect a pension in their first job
Around a third (35%) of Generation Z (16-19 year olds) are expecting a pension as standard in their first job, according to research from employment services firm Adecco, conducted in March 2015.The study, which surveyed 500 16-19 year olds in full-time education and 501 16-24 year olds who have applied ...
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ArticleVisualsoft improves staff wellbeing
EXCLUSIVE: Visualsoft has seen an improvement in the health and wellbeing of its 200 employees in the past 12 months after introducing a number of new initiatives. The web development organisation launched an all new benefits package in 2014 with the aim of boosting wellbeing and motivation, as well as ...
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ArticleLloyds Banking Group launches returners programme
Lloyds Banking Group has launched a nationwide programme to help reintegrate senior men and women back into the workplace.The returners programme, which is aimed at those who have been out of the workplace for two years or more, offers roles with Lloyds at its offices in Halifax, London, Edinburgh and ...
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ArticleJust 6% of jobs offer flexible working
Only 6% of full-time job roles with a salary of more than £20,000 offer workers the option of flexible working, according to research by flexible hiring specialist Timewise.The Timewise flexible jobs index, which analysed 3.5 million UK-based job vacancies, found that 6% of roles in the £20,000-£29,999 wage bracket embrace ...
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ArticleCharles Cotton: Should benefits professionals get to know their staff?
To coin a phrase, ‘it’s good to talk’, and, according to the latest Employee Outlook survey by the the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), published in March 2015, there is a clear link between employer communication and pay satisfaction.Of those employees who reported a pay rise in ...
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ArticleCeridian launches reward and recognition platform
Payroll and HR software provider Ceridian, has launched an employee reward and recognition platform.It has partnerned with provider WorkAngel to offer staff a mobile-first technology platform to offer staff discounts, an inter-company private social network and real-time recognition and reward.The partnership also means the platform will be integrated into Ceridian’s ...
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ArticleEmployee engagement reaches three-year high
Employee engagement is at a three-year high with 39% of staff currently engaged in the workplace, according to a study from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).The engagement figures in its Employee outlook 2015 survey, which had 2,226 employee respondents, showed a significant improvement from 2014 (38%) and ...
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ArticleJust 36% of staff are highly engaged
Just over a third (36%) of UK staff are highly engaged at work, according to a study from Red Letter Days for Business.Its research, 2015 Employee engagement: how British business measures up, which had 2,006 responses from British employees, also found that 48% of respondents stated that they are moderately ...
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ArticleJackie Buttery: Should benefits professionals get to know their staff?
I read an article fairly recently about the value of insight and about doing your homework before investing money. The retailers all do their homework extensively, canvassing customer opinion widely.Could benefits professionals take something from this sector and regard staff as more like customers to seek feedback more readily?We conduct ...
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AnalysisHow employers can support the transforming nature of employees
If you read nothing else, read this…Employees have evolved to demand a far broader mix of employee benefits and a more supportive working environment.Employees increasingly want a job to be on their terms, which includes being able to work and do things on the go.Many employers may simply require an ...
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ArticleOvo revamps flexible benefits scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Ovo has revamped its flexible benefits scheme for its 700 employees, in order to reflect its values and reward philosophy.The energy firm’s new online benefits strategy ‘My Rewards’, which uses Thomsons Online Benefits’ Darwin software, was introduced to better cater to its workforce which has doubled in size due ...
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AnalysisHow to use wellbeing initiatives to boost employee engagement
Key pointsA workplace culture focused on wellbeing can help to boost employee engagement.A strong visual brand and communication strategy designed to increase awareness across large workforces is key to engaging employees. Line managers play an important role in supporting staff to cope with everyday pressures effectively and, consequently, boosting engagement ...