All Employee wellbeing articles – Page 28

  • family-heart
    Analysis

    How can employers create a culture of care for working parents?

    2 September 2019

    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 ...

  • Audit-Lab
    Case Studies

    The Audit Lab creates culture of flexibility for working parents

    2 September 2019

    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

    2 September 2019

    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

    2 September 2019

    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

    2 September 2019

    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 ...

  • Zappos
    Article

    Zappos.com launches music-based wellbeing programme

    30 August 2019

    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

    30 August 2019

    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 ...

  • Andrew Clough
    Article

    Two-thirds believe choosing their working hours would boost productivity

    29 August 2019

    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?

    29 August 2019

    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 ...

  • Nic Redfern
    Article

    Three-quarters of UK employees are in favour of a four-day working week

    28 August 2019

    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

    28 August 2019

    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 ...

  • RG-childcare
    Article

    Childcare vouchers closure caused 84% of working parents to rethink career

    27 August 2019

    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 ...

  • BDO
    Case Studies

    BDO empowers local teams to create inclusive wellbeing strategy

    27 August 2019

    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 ...

  • diversity
    Analysis

    How can employers create an accessible wellbeing programme?

    27 August 2019

    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

    27 August 2019

    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 ...

  • Sadiq Khan
    Article

    Poll: 33% feel Good Work Standard will lead to staff being better paid

    22 August 2019

    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 ...

  • Debbie Lovewell-Tuck
    Opinion

    Lovewell's logic: Moving mental wellbeing forward

    22 August 2019

    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 ...

  • friends
    Article

    Friends superfan could earn $1,000 for watching 60 episodes as show turns 25

    22 August 2019

    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 ...

  • Dentons
    Article

    Dentons appoints chief mindfulness officer to roll out wellbeing programme

    21 August 2019

    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 ...

  • Expat employees
    Article

    Three in 10 expatriate employees say wages have a positive impact on wellbeing

    21 August 2019

    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 ...