All Employee engagement articles – Page 160
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ArticleMcDonald's motivates staff with World Cup events
EXCLUSIVE: McDonald’s Restaurants is raising employee engagement in the workplace and boosting staff motivation with events based around the 2014 Fifa World Cup.The restaurant chain has held two competitions for employees themed around the football tournament, which kicks off today (12 June), to help bring the event to life in ...
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ArticleM&S to roll out staff wellbeing initiatives
Marks and Spencer is to roll out a series of new health and wellbeing initiatives for employees in 2015.In its Plan A Report 2014, published on 5 June, the retailer stated that it will:Establish measures and report on employee wellness to supplement the more traditional measures of employee engagement.Extend access ...
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ArticleMicrosoft hosts wellbeing week
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft has hosted its annual wellbeing week for 3,000 staff at its campus in Reading.Its Living Well 365 event, took place between 22 April and 2 May, supports the four pillars of the technology organisation’s wellbeing programme: physical wellness, emotional wellness, financial wellbeing and social wellbeing.It held a number ...
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ArticleEmployee engagement and wellbeing go hand in hand
Organisations that are searching for sustainable individual and business performance need to focus on both wellbeing and engagement, according to a white paper by Engage for Success.The evidence: wellbeing and employee engagement report sets out evidence for the link between employee engagement and wellbeing, and the consequential impact on individual ...
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ArticleEmployee wellbeing rises up the corporate agenda
Delegates at the Employee Benefits Summit, held on 14 and 15 May in Alicante, Spain, agreed that staff health and wellbeing is rising on the corporate agenda, with 26% of poll respondents citing a noticeable difference in senior management’s attitude towards employee wellbeing compared with five years ago.Neil Carberry, director ...
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VideoVIDEO: Wendy Cartwright: Leading-edge employers embrace wellbeing
Leading-edge employers are embracing wellbeing as something incredibly important for the business, said Wendy Cartwright, former HR director at the Olympic Delivery Authority, in an interview with Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits.“Organisations are trying to get more upstream, and trying to focus on being more positive and proactive in ...
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VideoVIDEO: Bob Hughes: The new psychological contract to engage employees
A new psychological contract has to come in to engage a developing workforce, said Bob Hughes, director of the Engage for Success Foundation, in an interview with Debbie Lovewell-Tuck, deputy editor of Employee Benefits.He said: ”Things have changed so much in the workplace, the whole world of work is changing.“Companies ...
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ArticleEngagement shapes benefits strategy for 72%
Employers’ desire to improve employee engagement remains the key issue shaping benefits strategies in 2014.Just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents to The Benefits Research 2014, which surveyed 256 respondents in March 2014, said the desire to improve staff engagement was the key issue shaping their organisation’s benefits package.This issue first ...
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ArticleJohn Lewis and Harrods top employers for pay and benefits
Retailers John Lewis, Harrods and Waitrose have been named the top three employers for compensation and benefits packages, according to a report by employer comparison website Glassdoor.com.Its inaugural Top 20 UK Companies for Compensation and Benefits report, which is based on reviews and feedback by UK employees, rated employers on ...
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ArticleCapital One named UK’s best large workplace
Capital One has been named the UK’s best large employer in the Great Place to Work Institute’s ‘UK’s Best Workplaces 2014’ awards.It is the second year running that the credit card organisation has won the award, which is based on an assessment of organisations’ workplace culture, employee engagement and management ...
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ArticleLloyds Banking Group supports staff volunteering
More than 5,000 employees from Lloyds Banking Group are to volunteer in their local communities on 16 May as part of Business in the Community’s (BITC) annual Give and Gain Day.Give and Gain Day is an annual event run by BITC and is the UK’s only national day of employee ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Should CEOs share bonuses with staff?
This month, about 19,400 of the retailer’s staff who have worked for the organisation for at least three years will receive a one-off bonus worth an average of 1.5% of salary after Wolfson announced his intention to share his £4 million payout from a share-matching plan with employees.This is not ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Engagement is driving benefits strategies
This covers issues such as the key trends shaping benefits strategies in 2014, what benefits employers offer and why they do so.At Employee Benefits, we have been carrying out research into this broad topic for more than a decade, so we are able to draw on a vast source of ...
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Barclays and BT lead public reporting on wellbeing
Barclays, British Land Company, BT, GlaxoSmithKline and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group have been identified as the leading FTSE 100 organisations that publicly report on employee wellbeing and engagement, according to research by Business in the Community (BITC).Its second Workwell FTSE 100 benchmark, which analyses information made available by ...
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ArticleEmployers focus on improving staff engagement
The Benefits Research 2014, which was conducted in March 2014 among 256 respondents, found this was the case for just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents.Engagement has topped the list of issues shaping respondents’ benefits strategies since 2011, when 71% of respondents said this was the case, followed by 73% in ...
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ArticleGlobal employee engagement continues to rise
Global employee engagement levels increased to 61% in 2013, up from 60% in 2012 and 58% in 2011, according to research by Aon Hewitt.Its 2014 Trends in global employee engagement report, which represents the perspectives of seven million employees across more than 6,000 organisations in 155 countries, found the regions ...
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ArticleAllianz wellbeing programme reduces absence levels
EXCLUSIVE: Allianz Worldwide Care has reduced its staff absence levels from 1.71% in 2012 to 1.46% with the help of its new health and wellbeing programme.The programme, which was launched in January 2013 to maintain the high level of engagement across the business, covers five main categories: exercise and fitness, ...
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ArticleDanone and East Coast shortlisted for engaging benefits
Danone and East Coast Mainline are among the employers that have been shortlisted for the award ‘Most engaging benefits package’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2014.This award recognises employers that have used benefits within their wider strategy to engage employees within the organisation.The full category shortlist is:Danone (entered by Thomsons ...
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ArticleStaff engagement is main objective for flex
Schemes appear to be meeting this aim, with the proportion of respondents reporting that their plan has successfully improved staff engagement rising steadily over the past few years.A further fifth (21%) of respondents cited improving staff recruitment and retention as their scheme’s main objective.Unsurprisingly, employee engagement is the most popular ...
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ArticleDuncan Brown: Reward communications: are you listening?
Reward communication is hard: trying to get some highly technical, mathematical and financial information across to busy employees that show little general interest most of the time. Until things go wrong. And things do seem to be going wrong at the moment.We are just getting ready to publish two of ...