All Employee wellbeing articles – Page 28
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Analysis
How can employers create a culture of care for working parents?
Need to know:The foundation for a caring culture is a sense of flexibility, empathy and understanding, particularly when unexpected issues arise.Offering enhanced maternity and paternity leave and pay can help support new parents, as can access to childcare facilities or financial schemes.Benefits such as life insurance and critical illness cover ...
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Case Studies
The Audit Lab creates culture of flexibility for working parents
Providing support for working parents while maintaining operational efficiency can be particularly challenging for employers with small teams. Bolton-based marketing agency The Audit Lab understands this particularly well, because it employs nine people, four of whom have young children.Sometimes, the secret to creating the right culture is trial and error, ...
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Article
Debbie Lovewell-Tuck: A holistic approach to wellbeing
As our Employee Wellbeing Week, in association with Axa PPP Healthcare, draws to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the trends and issues currently shaping this area of the benefits market.The past few years have seen some employers make major strides forward in moving to a ...
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Opinion
Faye Whitmarsh: Family-friendly policies create a culture of care that benefits everyone
At Nationwide, we know people achieve more together than they can alone. Being a building society, this is one of the things that sets us apart from our competitors.That said, delivering on our ambitions and living up to our values is no small task; we need to make sure our ...
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Opinion
Nicola Mohns: No one size fits all - wellbeing needs to get personal
Whether boosting resilience, backing better work-life balance or creating behavioural change for a healthier lifestyle, it is important to make an effort where it counts for wellbeing.During the Second World War, the American Air Force wanted to find ways to reduce the number of casualties. Studying the planes that came ...
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Article
Zappos.com launches music-based wellbeing programme
Online retailer and customer service business Zappos.com has launched a new music-based wellbeing programme for its Las Vegas-based employees, encouraging staff to learn an instrument as a means to reduce stress.The new programme, Strum for the Sole, was implemented on 27 August 2019 in partnership with music brand Fender. The ...
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Supplier article
4 Ways to Support the Mental Wellbeing of Your Employees
Good wellbeing is essential to the health and happiness of your employees. It is important to support the mental wellbeing of your employees and raise awareness about mental health in the workplace.Especially since, more than three-quarters of managers believe businesses lack key support and education around mental wellbeing in the ...
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Article
Two-thirds believe choosing their working hours would boost productivity
Almost two-thirds (65%) of employees who do not currently have access to flexible working arrangements feel they would be more motivated and productive if they could choose their own hours, according to research by co-working organisation The Brew by rent24.The survey of 1,000 professionals also found that 65% believe that ...
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Analysis
Can employee benefits be used to counter climate change?
Need to know:Increasing climate change awareness and the introduction of government targets are leading employers to review what can be done within their organisations.Some are changing the slant of their benefits schemes by promoting these differently to employees, highlighting the environmental impact more prominently.Incentives can be used to create day-to-day ...
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Article
Three-quarters of UK employees are in favour of a four-day working week
Three-quarters (75%) of UK employees are in favour of a four-day working week, even if they it would mean fitting full-time hours from a five-day week into a shorter timeframe, according to research by financial comparison website KnowYourMoney.co.uk.Its survey of 2,000 UK adults in either full or part-time work also ...
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Supplier article
How to focus your total wellbeing efforts
In our previous articles we discussed the eight steps to create a workplace wellbeing programme and how to assess your current workplace wellbeing. Now we take a closer look at how you can focus your total wellbeing efforts to identify the gaps in your current offering to implement additional strategies.As ...
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Article
Childcare vouchers closure caused 84% of working parents to rethink career
More than four-fifths (84%) of working parents have had to reconsider their future career plans following the closure of the government's childcare vouchers scheme to new entrants in October 2018, according to research by the Childcare Voucher Providers Association (CVPA).The research canvassed the views of 17,000 parents currently using the ...
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Case Studies
BDO empowers local teams to create inclusive wellbeing strategy
Accountancy firm BDO has approximately 5,000 employees, spread across various accounting and support roles. Size alone makes tailoring wellbeing to the needs of each staff member's needs a mammoth task.The organisation has a unified central approach, says Nicola Elakel, senior people development manager at BDO. "Wellbeing is fully integrated into ...
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Analysis
How can employers create an accessible wellbeing programme?
Need to know: As employers think about the benefits of recruiting from a more diverse talent pool, the importance of employee wellbeing in terms of engagement and retention should not be forgotten.Events must take into account basic access needs, such as audio and visual aids, and providing a wide range ...
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Opinion
Diane Lightfoot: Accessible wellbeing should be embedded in an inclusive culture
When designing and implementing an organisation-wide wellbeing programme, it is important that it does what it says on the tin and seeks to address the needs of all employees. This is particularly true when it comes to making wellbeing initiatives accessible to those with a disability or long-term condition, whose ...
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Article
Poll: 33% feel Good Work Standard will lead to staff being better paid
Employee Benefits poll: A third (33%) of Employee Benefits readers believe that the Good Work Standard, an employment benchmark introduced by Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (pictured), will lead to more employees being paid the voluntary London living wage rate, currently set at £10.55 an hour.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk ...
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Opinion
Lovewell's logic: Moving mental wellbeing forward
Mental wellbeing remains firmly under the spotlight, both in the workplace and society more broadly, as individual, tragic cases continue to hit the headlines. In most instances, questions are raised as to why more support was not offered or available to those involved.In recent years, we have seen a marked ...
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Article
Friends superfan could earn $1,000 for watching 60 episodes as show turns 25
Something for the weekend: Telecommunications organisation FrontierBundles.com is offering the perfect side hustle for fans of the iconic TV show Friends. A lucky viewer who loves Joey, Rachel, Monica, Ross, Phoebe and Chandler could receive $1,000 (£823.20) for watching 25 hours’ worth of episodes, in celebration of the show’s 25th ...
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Article
Dentons appoints chief mindfulness officer to roll out wellbeing programme
Global law firm Dentons, which employs 17,500 people worldwide, has appointed a Europe chief mindfulness officer, to take responsibility for rolling out its wellbeing programme, NextMind, as well as to train in-house mindfulness ambassadors.Dentons has appointed Karina Furga-Dabrowska, partner in the tax and life sciences division. In this newly created ...
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Article
Three in 10 expatriate employees say wages have a positive impact on wellbeing
Approximately three in 10 (28%) expatriate employees have found that wage levels have a positive impact on their wellbeing, according to research by global healthcare provider Aetna International.The international workforce wellbeing survey 2019, which canvassed the views of 2,000 expat employees across 10 countries, further found that 21% believe that ...