All Employee wellbeing articles – Page 26

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    EXCLUSIVE: 85% believe employers have duty to encourage work-life balance

    20 September 2019

    EXCLUSIVE: For the 14th consecutive year, the majority (85%) of respondents believe they have a duty of care to encourage employees to achieve a sensible work-life balance, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019, which surveyed 202 HR decision makers and influencers, also found that ...

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    The Village Vintner launches fundraiser to aid employee's financial wellbeing

    19 September 2019

    Something for the weekend: Winery and brewery The Village Vintner has announced it will be running a fundraiser to support a valued employee and her family.The Illinois-based beverage business discovered that its assistant manager's financial and overall wellbeing was suffering due to emergency medical issues experienced by her husband. In ...

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    Medirest employees stage second protest over pay at Northwick Park Hospital

    19 September 2019

    Image credit: GMBEmployees of healthcare catering and facility management services provider Medirest, who are members of trade union GMB and work at Northwick Park Hospital, are undertaking a protest today (19 Septmeber 2019) in reaction to complaints over pay, management practices and heavy workloads.Medirest, part of Compass Group UK, provides ...

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    Half of UK employees believe their employer should support work-life balance

    19 September 2019

    Almost half (49%) of UK employees believe that their employer should support their work-life balance, according to research by Thomsons Online Benefits. The research, which surveyed 2,000 UK employees working at organisations with workforces of 500 or more in June 2019, also found that 31% admitted to being kept awake ...

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    How to create a savings culture in the workplace

    19 September 2019

    Need to know:Offering money management tools, and even numeracy workshops, can help employees get out of debt and build up to saving.Financial wellbeing strategies should address all employee needs, from everyday costs to long-term investments, as well as being part of a holistic approach to wellness.Without a strong foundation of ...

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    Savings stress: Financial wellness in numbers

    19 September 2019

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    VSP backs PHE’s Stoptober anti-smoking campaign, says smoking can damage your eyesight

    18 September 2019

    Eyecare specialist, VSP Vision Care, is backing Public Health England’s (PHE’s) Stoptober anti-smoking campaign due to the impact that smoking can have on the eyesight.VSP Vision Care, the world’s largest not-for-profit vision care services company with almost 90 million members worldwide, notes that smokers are at much greater risk of ...

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    EXCLUSIVE: Two-fifths do not know cost of providing healthcare benefits

    18 September 2019

    EXCLUSIVE: Two-fifths (41%) of employers do not know how much providing healthcare benefits is estimated to cost their organisation; this proportion has risen gradually over the past few years, having stood at 30% in 2017, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019, which surveyed 202 ...

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    Deloitte UK, KPMG UK and PWC UK pledge to support disability inclusion

    17 September 2019

    Professional services firms Deloitte UK, KPMG UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) UK have signed a global disability inclusion commitment, The Valuable 500, operated by business campaign group #valuable.The Valuable 500, launched in January 2019, is a year-long, global campaign that is asking 500 private sector organisations to pledge to support disability ...

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    Four-fifths of UK employees cite salary as important for their happiness at work

    17 September 2019

    Around four-fifths (86%) of UK employees cite salary as the most important factor contributing to their happiness at work, according to research by Capita.The state of IT: The employee verdict, a report which surveyed 2,000 UK professionals who use a computer to access data and applications, also found that 75% ...

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    Michael Royce: How can employers help staff improve financial capability?

    17 September 2019

    Employers play an increasingly important role in supporting the financial wellbeing of their people, both through the success of pensions auto-enrolment and by providing schemes such as season ticket loans and childcare vouchers.Figures from Neyber’s The DNA of financial wellbeing report, published in May 2016, estimate that money worries cost ...

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    Two-fifths of UK employees cite flexible hours as most important job element

    16 September 2019

    More than two-fifths (44%) of UK employees cite the ability to work flexible hours as the most important element of a job, according to research by Jellyfish Training.Its survey of 2,000 full and part-time professionals in the UK also found that 40% of respondents believe praise and recognition of their ...

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    Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare Research 2019

    16 September 2019

    Click to download the Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019 reportThe Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019 was conducted in July 2019 among readers of employeebenefits.co.uk. It received 202 responses.This report is aimed at helping compensation, reward and benefits professionals understand the key issues driving current health and wellbeing strategies, ...

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    Employee benefits: the start of your financial wellbeing strategy

    16 September 2019

    Gethin Nadin, Director of Employee Wellbeing, BenefexIt’s now common knowledge among HR and Reward professionals that almost all employees and their work are negatively affected by money worries. Despite this, almost half of employers have yet to roll out a financial wellbeing strategy.For most of us, money is synonymous with ...

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    Case Studies

    Anglian Water provides for financial wellbeing across varied life stages

    16 September 2019

    Utilities organisation Anglian Water has approximately 5,000 employees in the UK, half of whom are based across its main office locations, with the remaining half working operationally around the country.With such a varied workforce demographic, which also spans numerous generations, it is important that the organisation’s financial wellbeing support can ...

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    Daisy Corporate Services launches fitness discount benefit for 1,200 UK staff

    13 September 2019

    IT and communications organisation Daisy Corporate Services (DCS) has launched a new gym and fitness discount benefit for its 1,200 UK-based staff.The new benefit, provided by Gympass, was implemented on 23 August 2019 to help empower the organisation's geographically dispersed workforce to focus on physical and mental health, by providing ...

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    Should company culture come from the top-down or the bottom up?

    12 September 2019

    By John StevensCompany culture is effectively an organisation’s personality and in many ways it can be as unique and complex as any individual. Just as our own personalities evolve and shift according to a whole host of environmental factors, it is likely that your business culture will also incur changes ...

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    Opinion

    Lovewell's logic: Help staff avoid becoming a statistic

    12 September 2019

    Tuesday 10 September marked this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day. According to statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published just a week earlier, there were 6,507 suicides in the UK during 2018; significantly up on the previous year, and the first increase since 2013.In a trend that has ...

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    Zurich enhances parental leave and family-friendly policies for 4,500 UK staff

    12 September 2019

    Insurance organisation Zurich has enhanced its family-friendly policies for 4,500 UK-based staff; this includes equalising parental leave to offer secondary carers up to 16 weeks of leave at full pay.The paternity enhancement, which will come into effect from 19 December 2019, includes equalising maternity, adoption and paternity leave, so as ...

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    Help members achieve better outcomes at-retirement

    12 September 2019

    This summer, we hosted the ‘help members achieve better outcomes at-retirement’ event at The Shard to discuss how leading employers and Trustees tackle the issues members face at-retirement.The session was hosted by Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work and included other key industry professionals including Lesley Sutherland, Group Pensions Manager ...