All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 127
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ArticleTravis Perkins halves its gender pay gap
Travis Perkins, the trade and consumer hardware retailer, has revealed figures for 2020 which show it has halved its mean gender pay gap.According to its latest pay gap report, the organisation's mean wage difference was 4.8% in 2020, compared to 10% in 2019.The retailer's median hourly rate was even better, ...
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Supplier articleDefining the new Employee Value Proposition in 2021
Your first guess might be that the most important thing to a prospective employee is salary. But the reality is that there are many other pieces that round out a complete Employee Value Proposition, and salary is only one of them.That’s especially true in today’s ever-changing world, where the COVID-19 ...
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Supplier articleThe nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 3)
Caroline Outterside, a psychological therapist, notes some of the reasons for these concerns and the ramifications: “The change curve theory suggests we experience a gradual transition process of adjusting to the loss we feel, through a range of emotions that include denial, frustration, confusion, even depression until we get to ...
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OpinionCharles Cotton: Employers are likely to take a targeted approach to pay post-Budget
The focus of this year’s Budget was on supporting lives and livelihoods. For instance, to help protect jobs, the furlough scheme was extended to September, while to support small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) invest more in IT and improve management capability, the Help to Grow initiative was launched.In terms of ...
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Supplier articleWork-life balance: five pieces of the workplace wellbeing jigsaw
We continue to explore the critical issue of work-life balance – an issue which COVID has brought into sharp focus - with a blog post that suggests some strategies, tips and ideas to help both managers and employees to stay on the right track. In a previous ...
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Supplier articleWebinar: Strategic success with meaningful metrics in wellbeing
Join me at the Digital Watercooler, where we take your wellbeing objectives up a notch. For this session, I’m joined by Wellbeing strategy and transformation consultant, Yulia O’Mahoney, who will help you to pinpoint the actual purpose of your wellbeing strategies. Together, we unravel the common product-led ...
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ArticleWomen reveal lack of menopause support at work
Research published today (31 March) has highlighted the lack of menopause support women receive as they struggle to stay in work while experiencing symptoms.According to the Driving the change: menopause and the workplace report, not only is help sporadic but also poor in quality, with 76% of respondents calling for ...
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ArticleAmey rolls out new mental wellbeing support
Infrastructure services provider Amey has teamed up with mental health charity Mates in Mind to help widen the conversation among staff about managing their mental wellbeing and resilience.The partnership will see the organisation roll out the charity’s bespoke mental health and wellbeing programmes to staff, starting with online mental health ...
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ArticleGroup protection usage hit by data privacy fears
New research has suggested that slower-than-anticipated uptake of some group protection benefits may be due to data privacy fears.According to a study by Legal and General, 19% of staff questioned who had access to employee assistance programmes (EAPs) revealed that privacy concerns were a barrier to usage – a figure ...
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Supplier articleThe nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 2)
A third (31%) of users indicated that they are feeling nervous about socialising, both for fear of doing so too soon and causing the further spread of Coronavirus and because of doubts about mixing comfortably in a group again. Men reported feeling more excited than women, and the group who ...
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Supplier articleThe nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 1)
The last 12 months have brought with them incredible changes to people’s lives in all domains. Routines have been badly affected and people have suffered a significant loss; of connections, of support, of important life experiences.As lockdown was announced in the UK in March 2020, wellbeing scores of users of ...
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ArticleDechert offers all staff paid leave for Covid-19 jab
Global law firm Dechert has announced it will give paid leave to all employees getting their Covid-19 (Coronavirus) vaccination.The decision, circulated in an internal memo, revealed that staff can book up to eight hours off to get their jabs or use this time off if they have short-term side effects. ...
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Supplier articleBest Mental Health Monitoring & Wellbeing Platform 2021
The nation expresses anxiety over a return to work (Part 1)The last 12 months have brought with them incredible changes to people’s lives in all domains. Routines have been badly affected and people have suffered a significant loss; of connections, of support, of important life experiences.As lockdown was announced in ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: What are the long-term effects of the coronavirus?
Over the last year, the number of people affected by the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. The medical research into Covid-19 over this same period has made great progress, both in relation to symptoms and treatment, with the development of the various vaccines that are now been administered ...
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Supplier articleWhat is work-life balance for your employees and how can you spot if they are having problems?
Work-life balance is a topic that is being discussed in organisations across the globe as employees wrestle with the changing COVID workplace and lines between home and work being more blurred than ever before. How much do you know about work-life balance and could you spot the ...
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Supplier articleHow to avoid ‘Zoom Fatigue’
With the introduction of mandatory work from home orders over the last year, work-life is completely overhauled for many of us. Thanks to modern technology, working from home has been possible and most of our daily responsibilities can be carried out virtually. This is true for team meetings that can ...
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Supplier articleWebinar: Nailing your Recognition
Have a listen to my discussion of the psychology of workplace recognition. Our resident experts – Lauren Goldgrub, GM of Recognition, and myself, Director of Employee Wellbeing – share our insights into the science that’s driven our OneHub | Recognition platform. In this special edition webinar to ...
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ArticleEmployees embrace al-fresco working
Something for the weekend: With the clocks going forward an hour this Sunday (28 March), the promise of long balmy evenings beckons. But now it seems employees are springing into the season with a desire to be outdoors and embracing al-fresco working.A poll of 1,000 UK adults has found that ...
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OpinionKavitha’s keynote: A year of home working
This week marked the one-year anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown and, for many employees, it was also the first anniversary of their unexpected shift to full-time home working.While there is no doubt the pandemic has presented numerous challenges for employers – largely due to the very sudden need to ...
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ArticleMental health challenge for 70% of young employees
Younger generations want their employers to focus far more on the mental health challenge they are facing, according to new research by social purpose strategy firm Purpose Union.The study dramatically revealed the impact the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has had on employee wellbeing, with seven in 10 (70%) of millennials and ...