All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 120

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    Hallam introduces compassionate leave for miscarriages

    2021-05-20T09:04:28Z

    Digital marketing agency Hallam has offered five days of compassionate leave for both female and male employees in the event of a miscarriage.The policy includes paid leave for any associated or follow-up medical appointments and fertility treatment, as well as two days of paid leave when menstruation returns afterwards.The provision ...

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    25% of employees would accept pay cut for four-day week

    2021-05-20T08:20:57Z

    Research by office designers MoreySmith has revealed that one in four employees would move to working a four-day week even if their wages were reduced by one-fifth.The survey of 1,017 UK adults in full or part-time work focused on asking about people’s expectations of work, following 14 months of Covid-19 ...

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    Hargreaves Lansdown launches menstruation and menopause policy

    2021-05-19T09:30:07Z

    Financial services organisation Hargreaves Lansdown has announced the launch of its first menstruation and menopause policy.The company's new policy aims to raise awareness and understanding, outline the support available and allow colleagues to openly and comfortably instigate conversations about menstruation and the menopause.Employees can find out what potential menstruation and ...

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    Victoria von Wachter: Employers need to be vigilant of the symptoms of long Covid

    2021-05-19T05:00:38Z

    Long Covid refers to symptoms of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) that persist for weeks or even months, in excess of 12 weeks according to the health watchdog National Insititute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). Latest figures suggest that one in five people who test positive for Covid-19 continue to experience symptoms ...

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    Article

    Wates Group offers 4,000 staff mental health training

    2021-05-18T08:33:32Z

    Construction, property services and residential development company Wates Group is offering its 4,000 employees training in building personal resilience to boost mental health and wellbeing.The business-wide programme, named ‘Bouncing Back’, will begin in June and aims to provide staff with strategies to help to build a resilience toolkit of approaches ...

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    Supplier article

    How to engage dispersed retail employees with innovative benefits

    2021-05-18T07:30:30Z

    Engaging a dispersed workforce was a familiar challenge for Sofology, one of the UK’s leading sofa retailers with over 1,200 colleagues across 47 stores and a primary HQ. As the business experienced tremendous growth since its founding, the team needed to find a reliable platform to manage and promote colleague ...

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    Article

    Modibodi offers employees leave for menstruation, menopause and miscarriages

    2021-05-17T10:10:47Z

    Sustainable period pants brand Modibodi has launched a new policy offering its employees paid leave for menstruation, menopause and miscarriage symptoms.Employees will be entitled to an additional 10 days paid personal leave per year in addition to the organisation's existing sick leave entitlements. Modibodi said these days are to be ...

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    Article

    Group risk industry paid record claims to employees in 2020

    2021-05-17T08:00:27Z

    Research by Group Risk Development (Grid) has revealed the UK group risk industry paid a record £2.01 billion in claims to employees and dependants in 2020.This is equivalent to £5.5 million a day and an increase of £255.7 million since 2019. A total of 4,476 employees were helped back to ...

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    Financial wellbeing and the links to maintaining a productive workplace

    2021-05-17T07:30:00Z

    There’s a good chance that you’re reading these words sat in the comfort of your own home as the global pandemic forces us to work in a new remote environment. Before anybody had even heard of ‘COVID-19’, the thought of home working may have been music to ...

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    Global Marine Group launches flexible working and wellbeing initiative

    2021-05-14T10:00:15Z

    Telecommunications and offshore renewables company Global Marine Group (GMG) has launched a remote working programme to allow its employees across the world to have more control over their flexible working and wellbeing.GMG Evolution has been designed to encourage remote working for all 900 members of staff, who work in multiple ...

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    Article

    Get paid £1,000 to test bottomless brunches

    2021-05-14T05:00:27Z

    Something for the weekend: It’s a tough job but someone has to do it. Social review platform Psydro is on the hunt for a team of 10 lucky souls to test bottomless brunches - and will even pay them for the privilege.Successful applicants will be required to review one meal ...

  • Confessions
    Article

    Confessions of a benefits manager: Candid declutters her inbox

    2021-05-14T05:00:18Z

    Who are these people who achieve ‘inbox zero’ with their email? I think it must be an urban myth put about by people who have personal assistants. Still, I always used to aim for a white space at the bottom of my inbox by the end of the day. How ...

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    The top 10 most-read articles between 6 May – 12 May 2021

    2021-05-14T05:00:13Z

    The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 6 May – 12 May 2021 were: Dixons Carphone announces 9% pay rise and investment in staff wellbeingKPMG unveils flexible hybrid working modelHow can employees make flexible working schemes relevant post-pandemic? Improving morale with Ed SheeranHas workplace menopause support improved in recent ...

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    Article

    58% think office working will repair their mental health

    2021-05-13T10:01:23Z

    More than half of employees want to return to office life to improve their mental health after the isolation of remote working.This is the finding of new research by Canada Life, which revealed that 58% of those who will return to workplaces plan to do so because they are actually ...

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    Article

    Medway Community Healthcare introduces occupational health services

    2021-05-13T09:18:49Z

    Medway Community Healthcare has revealed plans to offer its staff a range of occupational health services.The social enterprise, which works to help and improve local communities, will provide employees across the organisation with pre-employment health assessments, referral assessments and management, and vaccination and immunity testing.The services will be provided by ...

  • mentalhealth1
    Article

    Edwin James Group trains staff as mental health first aiders

    2021-05-13T08:37:20Z

    Engineering company Edwin James Group has chosen 10 employees to become mental health first aiders to support the wellbeing of its 1,000-strong workforce.The selected members of staff, who come from across the business, have taken part in an intensive two-day course with St Johns Ambulance. The course focused on recognising ...

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    Supplier article

    Where to focus your diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for 2021

    2021-05-13T07:30:10Z

    By Kaitlin Howes, Experience Manager at Reward GatewayDiversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is not a stagnant initiative for Reward Gateway – we know that it is a journey and a journey that we are very much committed to. Our aim has been to sew DEI programmes into the fabric of ...

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    Daisy Hooper: Should employers cut pay for staff who continue to work from home?

    2021-05-13T05:00:49Z

    Over the past year, the pandemic has drastically changed the working practices for most organisations. One of these changes has been the dramatic increase in home working. However, as restrictions are lifted and we slowly return to the workplace, employers need to be making a choice on how they will ...

  • Clare-Fletcher
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    Clare Fletcher: Should employers cut pay for staff who continue to work from home?

    2021-05-13T05:00:47Z

    Where employers are considering implementing pay cuts for staff continuing to work from home, it is important to understand the reasoning behind this.There are a number of potentially legitimate reasons why an employer may look to implement a pay cut. This could be because of a need to make cost ...

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    Rita Fontinha: Should employers cut pay for staff who continue to work from home?

    2021-05-13T05:00:11Z

    In March 2020, the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic led to lockdown restrictions and businesses quickly adopted a remote-working policy for all jobs that did not require a face-to-face interaction.While remote work has been an ongoing practice over the past two decades, it was often a voluntary decision where some employees chose ...