All Flexible benefits articles – Page 5
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Employees happier but risk burnout
New data from employee engagement platform provider Glint has revealed employees’ overall happiness has increased, but there are signs that they are experiencing rising levels of poor mental health and burnout.The findings from the organisation's first Employee wellbeing report revealed happiness was 5.4% higher in December 2020 compared to December ...
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Supplier article3 key considerations for the future of remote working
Since remote working became a necessity for many due to COVID-19 restrictions, companies and their employees have felt both the benefits and the drawbacks.When planning for the future, HR and managers will no doubt take all of these experiences into account.You may have already got feedback from your employees towards ...
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Supplier articleCo-op continues to focus on colleague wellbeing with Gympass partnership
Co-op, one of the world’s largest consumer?co-operatives, is bolstering its wellbeing offering for the company’s 62,000 employees by partnering with Gympass, the world’s largest corporate wellbeing platform. The agreement gives Co-op colleagues, the majority of whom are front-line key workers, access to Gympass’ wealth of digital wellness ...
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Supplier articleThe significance of building employee relations in 2021
We all treasure genuine employee relations, be that with a boss or a colleague, you can now call a friend. But why? Forging friendships can help battle the blues, increase productivity and even keep staff turnover to a minimum.With a best friend at work, individuals are ‘seven times’ more likely ...
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Supplier articleAchieve greater ROI from your employee benefits scheme
Latest insights from 2000 HR decision makers and employees suggest a disconnect when it comes to benefit relevance and utilisation. Our latest white paper explores the utilisation of employee benefits and the impact of COVID on benefit design. Employee needs and expectations have evolved drastically over the ...
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Supplier articleGetting leadership on board with your DEI programme
If we were to do a poll of the steps most likely to be taken by businesses to address an equality challenge, I would guess that unconscious bias/cultural awareness training, graduate recruitment, and having a related employee resource group would come somewhere near the top. I’m right, aren’t I?The irony ...
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Supplier articleHow to support employee mental wellbeing with employee benefits
No doubt a key priority for HR in 2021 is to support employee mental wellbeing.Indeed, HR knows first-hand the effects of the pandemic on mental health, with a reported 70% increase in the stress-related absence in 2020 among HR professionals in the UK.In helping support employees with their mental wellbeing, ...
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Supplier article4 key pillars of a successful flexible benefits programme
Hi, my name is Lee, and I am addicted to technology.Working in the flexible benefits space for close to a decade, I’ve seen firsthand the impact it can make to an employer to deliver a seamless, incredible experience for their employees – how a client’s eyes light up when we’ve ...
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Supplier article5 power tips for parents working from home with kids
Working from home can be challenging for some people at the best of times, they may not have the right desk to work from, have noisy neighbours, a partner who is distracting, or not much space to differentiate from work and rest. But if you add children who need to ...
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ArticleEmployers failing to communicate on health and wellbeing
As many as half of employers are still not engaging in the health and wellbeing of their staff, according to a new report by Health Shield.Despite mental health charities indicating employee wellbeing is now reaching crisis levels, the health cash plan provider's study found a substantial 48% of bosses had ...
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ArticleDon’t withdraw flexible working, report warns
Less than a week after the CIPD launched a campaign demanding staff are given flexible working from day one, a Bright Horizons' report has warned employers face an ‘iceberg of staff discontent’, if flexibility is removed once Covid-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions are over.The report - its Modern Families Index - found ...
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ArticleEmployers embrace wellbeing benefits
Group risk industry body Grid has unveiled what it calls an “encouraging increase” in employer-provided wellbeing benefits provision in response to Covid-19 (Coronavirus).In a poll of HR directors, it found 48% now felt they had greater responsibility for the mental health of their staff than they did before the pandemic. ...
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ArticleRevolut moves to permanent flexible working
Banking services app provider Revolut has this week confirmed it will permanently move to flexible working arrangements.From now on, the organisation's 2,000+ employees have a choice about when and how often they would like to work from home, and how often they would like to work in an office.Despite 98% ...
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Supplier articleIndia: Hidden complexities in a region with low-flex benefits
Paul Andrews, Global Benefits Director, BenefexWhen looking at global benefits technology, our simple to complex scale helps organisations to identify the level of complexity they need in each of their territories, based on individual locations and their benefits requirements. We then help organisations to prioritise their locations, and to get ...
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ArticleSMEs create surge in demand for employee benefits
Results of the 2021 Employee Benefits and Workplace Satisfaction Survey from financial wellbeing provider Drewberry found that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were responsible for a huge surge in demand for new employee benefits types last year.According to the data, nearly half (47.4) introduced additional employee benefits during 2020 – ...
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ArticleBureau Veritas named top employer for ninth year running
Test and inspection certification firm Bureau Veritas has scooped its own accreditation – as a top UK employer by the Top Employers Institute.The award sees Bureau Veritas take the accolade for the ninth year running, and according to its HR director, Katie White, it recognises the work the business has ...
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ArticlePoll: Four-fifths of employers are giving working parents more flexibility to cope
Employee Benefits Poll: An overwhelming majority of organisations say they are providing staff with greater flexibility to help working parents cope during the current lockdown.This week’s straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers has found more than four-fifths (82%) cite offering flexibility as the main way in which they are supporting employees ...
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Supplier articleThree key trends for the year ahead
Author: Chris Bruce, Co-found and managing director, Darwin There’s not a single sector that hasn’t felt the impact of 2020 – and benefits is no exception. Many column inches have been dedicated to the changes Covid-19 has expedited, with initiatives previously set to take two or three ...
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ArticlePhoenix Group introduces five more days of emergency leave
Long-term savings and retirement business Phoenix Group is providing five more paid leave days for working carers to help them cope with the third national lockdown.Sara Thompson, group HR director, said: “Last year we provided colleagues with similar access to five days' emergency paid leave to help them during the ...
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Supplier articleA guide to budgeting for employee benefits
Many of us, businesses as well as individuals, are tightening the purse strings in response to the changing economic environment we now find ourselves in.As a result, providing an employee benefits package that will genuinely make a positive difference for your employees and help you meet your HR objectives is ...