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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits professional of the year
WINNER Debra Corey, group compensation and benefits director, Merlin EntertainmentsDebra Corey is a much-admired, charismatic and highly respected figure in the employee benefits world. Before joining Merlin Entertainments, she had built up a high profile in reward by taking on the challenges of senior roles at a number of well-known ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Grand Prix
WINNERMcDonald's RestaurantsMcDonald's Restaurants was voted winner of this year's Grand Prix award because of its textbook approach to aligning its reward strategy with the needs of the business and its effective development of an employee brand.The organisation reduced staff turnover and increased sales significantly after discovering a strong correlation between ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Meet the Judges
Panel chairDebi O’Donovan is editor of Employee Benefits and is responsible for editorial strategy across events, web and the magazine.Panel chairDebbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits, is an award-winning journalist who is responsible for news and features across the magazine and website.Panel chairDev Raval is director of reward at ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with more than 1,000 staff
WINNERZurich Insurance, Zurich WellbeingThis entrant not only introduced a raft of measures tailored to address the needs of its workforce, but it also took significant steps to improve employee engagement scores on health and wellbeing.The insurance firm’s health and wellbeing campaign, branded Zurich Wellbeing, was launched in June 2011 and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with fewer than 1,000 staff
WINNERCapital One, Your Health MattersCapital One revamped its health and wellbeing provision for staff with a raft of measures designed to improve fitness, wellbeing and work-life balance.In January 2011, it opened an on-site gym called The Core at its head office in Nottingham. The judges were particularly impressed that employees ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with more than 5,000 staff
WINNERKraft Foods, Simply Rewards, entered by BenefexKraft Foods’ communications strategy was key to successfully integrating reward and benefits across the business after its acquisition of Cadbury.Kraft and Cadbury were coming from different standpoints, cultures and communication styles, so it was essential for communication to achieve parity across the workforce and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with fewer than 5,000 staff
WINNERBromford, Bromford RewardsThis entrant used a multi-faceted communications strategy to promote its retail discount scheme, Bromford Rewards, which was introduced following employee feedback. The company involved its group of employee representatives in developing the project as part of efforts to ensure it reached all sections of the workforce.The judges noted ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees
WINNERMcDonald’s RestaurantsThis entrant significantly reduced staff turnover and increased sales after successfully linking its reward strategy to the needs of the business. The fast food chain discovered a correlation between employee engagement and business performance. For example, in restaurants where staff were engaged, sales were on average 28% higher and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees
WINNERBarbon Insurance GroupThis business was formed in difficult circumstances in 2008. Not only did it have to deal with the fall-out from the financial collapse of its parent company and a decline in profits, but staff turnover was high and increasing, and low levels of morale were contributing to rising ...
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EXCLUSIVE: McDonald's Restaurants wins Grand Prix at Employee Benefits Awards
McDonald’s Restaurants, Merlin Entertainments, BT and Kraft Foods were among the big winners at this year's Employee Benefits Awards, which took place at the Artillery Garden at The HAC on 31 May.McDonald’s Restaurants took the coveted overall Grand Prix prize, plus the category award for ‘Most effective alignment of reward ...
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Winners of the Employee Benefits Awards announced
The 2012 Employee Benefits Awards took place at The Artillery Garden at the HAC in London on 31 May.Hosted by Jason Byrne on behalf of Employee Benefits magazine and celebrating the best in benefits, just 24 winners were selected from 100 finalists.More details and photos will be added to this ...
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GE, Kraft Foods and Virgin Media among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012
GE, Home Retail Group, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s Restaurants and Virgin Media are among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012.Other finalists include:'Benefits team of the year':AvivaCancer Research UKKraft FoodsLinklatersMarks and Spencer'Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees':Everything EverywhereGEGrant ThorntonJLT ...
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Employee Benefits Live 2011 conference slides
To view a presentation fromEmployee Benefits Live 2011, which was held in London on 27-28 September, please click on the link next to the sessions below. Not all speakers are able to give us permission to put their slides online. When this happens we have tried to persuade them to ...
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Marcia Reid of Finchers Consulting: Employee Benefits Live 2011
Employee Benefits Live has become an essential part of the calendar for the UK employee benefits industry. This is an excellent opportunity to meet potential clients – reward and benefits professional flock to the event – it's also a great networking forum. This year was no exception – The Business ...
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Employee Benefits Live 2011 brings industry together
View video of Employee Benefits Live 2011View Twitter feed: #EBLiveAdd comments, inputs and questions below reportEmployee Benefits Live 2011 brought together all the key players in the benefits and reward industry for two days of networking, attending conference sessions and meeting over 100 leading suppliers.The event opened with a key ...
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Employee Benefits Live: BP engages generation Y
The adoption of new technology by generation Y has led many employers, including BP, to update their benefits and hiring programmes, primarily by moving these online.Key traits exhibited by generation Y include: flexibility, a willingness to relocate, a strong desire to achieve, pushiness and ambition.Speaking in a session titled ‘Are ...
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Employee Benefits Live: Reward for FTSE 100 executives has almost doubled in five years
The remuneration package of FTSE 100 executives has almost doubled in five years which has raised questions over whether reward is matched with company performance.During his session on creating reward packages for high earners at Employee Benefits Live, Stephen Cahill, a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ...
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Employee Benefits Live: British Airways consolidates healthcare schemes into self-funded plan
British Airways (BA) introduced a self-funded health plan in order to create a tailored healthcare benefit for its employees.†Speaking on day two of Employee Benefits Live, Janine Sparks, reward consultant at BA, explained that, following a strategic review, the airline chose to consolidate its previous disparate healthcare schemes into a ...
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Employee Benefits Live: Level of pay awards could rise in 2012 but pace will be slow
Levels of pay awards could rise in 2012 but the pace will be slow, said Ken Mulkearn, editor of the IDS Pay Report, in his session at Employee Benefits Live 2011.Outlining the latest picture on basic pay awards, Mulkearn showed that 3% has been the single most popular pay rise ...
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Employee Benefits Live: Employers should consider the needs of low paid staff
Stephen Bevan, director of the Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, at The Work Foundation, sheds light on the needs of low paid staff during the age of austerity.Addressing delegates during his keynote session on the second day of Employee Benefits Live 2011, Bevan said there were 10 million workers in the ...