All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 133
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Supplier articleReviewing your benefits through a socially responsible lens
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexDecent financial reward is no longer enough to attract the best people to work for you. Employer brands, like consumer brands, need to show that they exist for a purpose beyond making profit. The message from employees is clear: “We want to work for responsible ...
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ArticleDelta Security Management to pay living wage
Security guard firm Delta Security Management has become the latest organisation to be recognised as a living wage employer.Accredited by the Living Wage Foundation, the company based in Crawley, West Sussex, will now pay its 10 full-time and four part-time staff at least £9.30 per hour. This is the outside-London ...
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Supplier articleHow to foster employee morale in the virtual work environment
Formerly the preserve of field sales and support managers, the challenge of keeping a team engaged and motivated while individuals are based in their own discrete locations is now widespread across many organisational departments. Throughout the pandemic, companies have looked for creative solutions that will support employees ...
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OpinionDr Rea Prouska: How can employers meet staff benefits needs in the current environment?
The current Covid-19 (Coronavirus) and Brexit crises are creating multiple challenges for employers. While business survival takes precedence in employer agendas, there are crucial employee consequences that also need to be addressed. These include the impact of adverse working conditions on employee motivation, job satisfaction, performance, productivity and on ...
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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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ArticleMajority of employers support the mental health of working parents
New research has found that of the options employers provide to combat pressures on remote working parents, mental wellbeing support overwhelmingly comes top.Incomes Data Research (IDR) polled workers at 40 organisations during January and discovered that almost all (98%) employers had taken specific steps to help employees with their mental ...
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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 articleBusy Bees Benefits: What is international private medical insurance?
In short, international private medical insurance ensures your employees are looked after by medical experts, no matter where they are in the world. It’s private medical insurance that covers you globally.It appeals to ex pats, in pats, high net worth clients, staff on short- or long-term assignments and anybody that ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: What does the future hold for employee benefit providers?
Wherever possible, it’s important that the people who make up your organisation feel good about themselves and their working environment. Relevant and effective employee benefits must play a key role in this.So what does the future hold for employee benefit providers?Lack of innovationPractical benefitsSalary sacrificeWork-life balanceEmployers offering high-quality employee benefits ...
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Supplier articleCreating a Win-Win Situation Through Employee Recognition
If you knew that 4 out of 5 of your employees wanted something and that meeting their wish would have a positive impact on your bottom line, you'd seriously consider taking immediate action, wouldn't you?We're not even talking about a pay rise! It turns out that 82% of employees would ...
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Supplier articleHow to Ensure your Managers are Empowered
How often do you hear people complain about their managers? Do you feel their grievance is justified?Whether the complaint is valid or not, the very fact that an employee perceives their manager as ineffective presents a problem. Something needs to change.In a recent study, we found that less than 50% ...
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ArticleExpat healthcare increasingly challenging
Businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to develop healthcare packages for international workers, according to a survey by AXA Global Healthcare.The World of Work research compares trends from 2017 and 2020, highlighting changes in the process of establishing and supporting international assignments.The survey found that of the 543 HR decision-makers ...
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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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ArticleSussex Police Force de-stress with wellbeing dogs
Something for the weekend: Being a bobby on the beat can be hard at the best of times, but policing during the pandemic brings its own unique and stressful challenges - from breaking up illegal lockdown parties and fining hill walkers for carrying cups of coffee to being spat at ...
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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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ArticleMental health-related absenteeism costs rose to £14 billion in 2020
Mental health-related absence cost UK businesses £14 billion last year, according to research by Westfield Health, with Covid-19 (Coronavirus) largely to blame.Its Coping with Covid report found mental health-related absenteeism costs rose by £1.3 billion during 2020, compared to 2019, as working from home, furlough and pay cuts brought radical ...
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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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Case StudiesGett invests in its people with choice of flexible working patterns
Gett is a ground travel platform for businesses that puts clients’ preferred ride-hailing apps and car services in one place. It introduced Gett Flexi in August 2020. Gett’s global workforce of just under 1,000 employees can now choose whether they work four or five days a week.Tyson Niemeyer, chief executive ...
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AnalysisCould a four-day working week become the norm?
Need to know:What’s the secret of better retention, higher productivity and improved wellbeing? Some employers think it’s a four-day working week.Four-day working weeks can help organisations to attract and keep the best talent, which employers like recruiters MRL Consulting Group have discovered. Employees also report that they are less stressed ...
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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 ...