All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 137
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ArticleHome workers offered canine communications boost
Photo credit: Paws in WorkSomething for the weekend: Is your workforce suffering from the dog days of lockdown lethargy? Has life begun to feel little more than the tired work-from-home routine of logging on, catching up, logging off - and repeat? Perhaps your communications need some pawsitive energy.Fret no more. ...
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Supplier articleEmployee-centred design within HR policy
As more and more employers realise the importance of designing experiences at work with the needs of the employee at the centre, we are starting to understand the potential contribution HR and company policy can have on wellbeing and employee performance. To explore this further, I had some conversations with ...
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Article43% of employers with wellbeing initiatives report 'very good' productivity
The health of employees and the British economy is dependent on employers spending much more of their benefits budgets on wellbeing initiatives, according to new report.Coping after covid, produced by Westfield Health, interviewed 1,600 employees and HR leaders. It revealed that 43% of HR managers with wellbeing programmes in place ...
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Supplier articleCompanies that give Richer Sounds & Employee Ownership
Richer Sounds is a UK retailer with 52 stores nationwide that sell a range of Hi-Fi, home cinema, and TV equipment. Julian Richer, founder of the company has built a reputation for quality customer service and has long been an advocate for treating staff well and intends to reward his ...
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Supplier articleTime to revisit and recharge your mental health armoury
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development and Marketing at Generali UK Employee BenefitsEmployees in the UK are at a particularly low ebb right now. In fact, the working population is currently as distressed as the ‘most distressed’ one per cent of working Britons, prior to 2020, according to Morneau ...
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Supplier articleWhat is the MotorSave employee benefit scheme?
The last year has been like nothing most have ever witnessed. Almost overnight, all of the news was about the coronavirus, shelves in supermarkets were emptied and the number of cars on the roads dwindled.With lockdown restrictions easing soon and the government’s roadmap to normality being announced, it won’t be ...
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Supplier articleNew report reveals how a year of Covid-19 has seen employees embrace stress management
More than a third of people opted for mental health support when they checked in to the Gympass platform There was a switch from anxiety support to stress management over the year With the spotlight on health, Gympass saw increases in physical activity for ...
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ArticleFlexible working hubs to be offered to civil servants
A national network of ‘hybrid offices’ is to be set up for civil servants to allow them to work more flexibly.Whitehall has signed a deal with serviced offices firm IWG to create 10 different co-working spaces across the UK for staff to use when not in London.According to The Telegraph ...
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OpinionAbi Frederick and Paul Norris: Employers have a duty to support home workers
Employers have a duty to take steps that are reasonably necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of homeworkers. The risks include feelings of isolation, a lack of supervision, issues arising from prolonged use of display screen equipment, working long hours and taking inadequate breaks. Employers need to ...
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AnalysisTop tips to help employees create a healthy home office
Need to know:Feelings of stress and anxiety around underperformance can arise without the cues an office environment provides.Boundary setting is essential to prevent burnout and overwhelm.Employees have a responsibility to share concerns as soon as possible rather than let problems fester.It’s been one year since the first lockdown but millions ...
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Case StudiesWattbike helps employees stay healthy with home health initiatives
Indoor cycling brand Wattbike is based in Nottingham and employs 75 people, 25 of whom were taken on during the first lockdown.Since that time the business has focused on making teams feel connected, looking after their health and welfare and making it as easy as possible for staff to adapt ...
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ArticlePWC reveals flexible working 'Deal' for employees
Professional services firm PWC will now let all staff in its network choose what times they work best, as well as allowing them to decide whether they do so in a blended (part-home, part-office) way permanently.The company's so-called ‘Deal’ is the result of staff consultation. It gives employees an ‘empowered’ ...
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ArticleVolvo unveils global paid parental leave policy
Volvo Cars has today (1 April) announced the global roll out of its brand new ‘Family Bond’ paid parental leave policy after a successful pilot of the scheme in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.The policy – an all gender-neutral, paid parental leave of 24 weeks at 80% pay – ...
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ArticleAkzoNobel wellbeing month delivers 110 events
Dutch paints and coatings business AkzoNobel has just completed a month’s worth of health and wellbeing initiatives, which saw it squeeze in 110 different activities during March.The organisation's ‘Wellfest’ month was specifically designed to support the health, wellness and happiness of employees and their families in recognition of the fact ...
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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 ...