All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 111

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    Back to bad habits in the workplace

    2021-08-06T08:00:22Z

    Something for the weekend: Are you longing to return to the office? Well, think again as it may not live up to your expectations. One aspect of workplace life that many employees seem to have forgotten about during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic lockdowns are the bad habits of some of ...

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    58% of hospitality employers increased their benefits

    2021-08-06T08:00:12Z

    New data has found that more than half (58%) of businesses in the hospitality industry have increased their benefits package in the past year.The first quarterly Caterer.com hospitality hiring insider report, which gathered the views of 250 hospitality employers and 2,000 consumers, highlighted how the sector has boosted employee benefits ...

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    Case Studies

    Podcast: Global Marine Group adapts reward strategy to support staff wellbeing during pandemic

    2021-08-05T05:00:54Z

    ?tynanbarton · Global Marine Group/Employee Benefits podcastListen: Paul Rose, director of HR and talent at Global Marine Group, talks to Employee Benefits about how the organisation adapted its reward strategy to place a high focus on employee wellbeing, especially during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Rose explains that the offshore engineering orgnisation ...

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    Case Studies

    The benefits on offer at Global Marine Group

    2021-08-05T05:00:10Z

    The benefits offered to UK employees at Global Marine Group:PensionA group personal pension (GPP) for all employees with matched contributions at 7.5%.Closed defined benefit (DB) scheme.Healthcare and group riskPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme with Axa PPP, employer-funded for all employees.Health cash plan for all employees with Medicash, employee paid.Employee assistance ...

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    16% of workers think their mental health is supported

    2021-08-04T08:00:56Z

    New data has revealed that only 16% of UK employees feel their mental health is very well supported at work, despite 81% wanting their organisation to encourage good mental wellbeing.Healthcare top-up provider Lime has published a report entitled Keeping up appearances: how ‘pleasanteeism’ is eroding resilience, which found that 42% ...

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    Sam Jardine: Why employers should offer staff mental health support

    2021-08-04T05:00:59Z

    With Covid-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions easing, employees up and down the country are gearing up again for a return to the office.However, after working from home for months on end and with underlying anxieties surrounding the pandemic understandably still present, our HR team has considered how we can better equip colleagues ...

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    Case Studies

    Fox Agency adapts perks to hybrid working model

    2021-08-03T05:00:51Z

    Business-to-business marketing firm Fox Agency has a main office in Leeds and a satellite one in London, but switched to remote working once the first lockdown was imposed.Despite initial concerns, the business has now adapted to remote working and is planning to adapt a hybrid model going forward. Al Fox, ...

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    How has the hybrid working trend impacted benefit and reward strategies?

    2021-08-03T05:00:50Z

    Need to know:The future of work is likely to be made up of a mix of office and home working.This is having an impact on what benefits employers offer.How employers communicate with staff will also need to change in a hybrid model.The potential for most employees to work from home ...

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    The Queen Elizabeth Hospital launches menopause policy

    2021-08-02T09:36:16Z

    The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, UK has launched a new menopause initiative as part of its staff wellness programme.The Norfolk-based hospital made the decision to state that it is a menopause-friendly employer in its job adverts and aims to be a national leader in the NHS for menopause ...

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    Bumble introduces new paid leave policies

    2021-08-02T08:23:04Z

    Dating app Bumble has announced it will give all of its employees a minimum of six months' paid leave for the birth, adoption or surrogacy of a child.Workers will be able to take at least 12 weeks' leave a year to take care of a family member and caregivers will ...

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    Walkers Transport launches four-day working week

    2021-07-30T11:46:00Z

    Haulage firm Walkers Transport has launched a four-day working week for its drivers, which aims to give them greater flexibility and more quality time with their families.The haulier, which has depots in Leeds, Manchester and Fradley, is making the option of a four-day Monday to Friday working week available to ...

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    UPAC Group moves to four-day working week

    2021-07-30T08:26:40Z

    Food and drink industry packaging supplier UPAC Group has introduced a four-day working week while still allowing employees to keep a full salary and holiday entitlement.The Glasgow, UK-based business has made the switch after a two-month trial, which showed no drop in productivity and a decrease in stress levels. As ...

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    Redcar and Cleveland Council starts blended working

    2021-07-30T08:16:19Z

    Redcar and Cleveland Council has adopted a blended working approach for staff following the relaxation of remaining Covid-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions in England.The working model will be introduced as a result of 55% of the council’s more than 2,000 staff continuing to work from home for at least some of the ...

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    The benefits of office besties

    2021-07-30T08:00:46Z

    Something for the weekend: As International Friendship Day arrives (30 July) there’ll be many a home worker fondly remembering all the good times they had with their office bestie before the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic ripped them apart and consigned them to a solitary life of working from home.No one can ...

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    Is benefits fairness really so important?

    2021-07-30T07:30:38Z

    Matt Williamson is accelerating family support in the workplace with Bubble, a platform enabling employers to better support working parents with access to amazing childcare, family health and wellbeing support.When chatting to employers who are thinking about implementing Bubble childcare support for their working parents, I'm often asked about 'benefit ...

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    EXCLUSIVE: 45% want recognition for their wellbeing

    2021-07-29T08:48:59Z

    Almost half of UK employees at small and medium sized enterprises (SME) said that recognition for work well done is among their top requirements for wellbeing in the workplace.Financial services provider Legal and General looked at what workplace wellbeing really means to 1,055 SME employees in its Wellbeing at Work ...

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    Publicis Groupe UK launches family policies

    2021-07-29T08:21:07Z

    Communications organisation Publicis Groupe UK has implemented family-centered workplace policies for its employees spanning maternity, paternity and shared parental leave, as well as adoption, surrogacy, fertility and pregnancy loss.The introduction of these will be supported by a training and education program aimed at employees and managers. They are the latest ...

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    Creating a return to work plan that works for all employees

    2021-07-29T07:30:53Z

    Return to work, return to the office, return to ‘the new normal’ - whatever it is that you may be calling it, many industries are undergoing changes as the world makes its way into post-pandemic day-to-day life.While your employees have undoubtedly been hard at work throughout this entire pandemic, any ...

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    Dr Zofia Bajorek: What impact will the return to work have on employees’ work-life balance?

    2021-07-29T05:00:44Z

    As the country continues its pathway out of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) lockdown, conversations have invariably turned to what a return to the workplace will look like, and what this means both in terms of the flexible working agenda and employee health and wellbeing. Some have labelled these last 18 months ...

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    David Wood: What impact will the return to work have on employees’ work-life balance?

    2021-07-29T05:00:28Z

    Earlier in the year we asked our people for their feedback on how they'd found homeworking and their thoughts on what a return to the office could look like for them. Most people had really appreciated having the ability to work from home, and many said that they felt just ...