All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 142

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    Why implement a benefits platform in the middle of a pandemic?

    2020-11-12T08:45:47Z

    As we’ve progressed through 2020, the challenges that employees have faced have really tested their resilience. In this Benefex webinar, host, Client Director Tom Benning, takes a look at how employee habits and spending have changed this year, and how certain employee benefits have been pushed to the top of ...

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    Free eBook: Your Guide to Navigating COVID-19

    2020-11-11T08:30:56Z

    As the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the workplace and most people's day-to-day lives, employee engagement has become more important than ever. Amidst the uncertainty in the world, employees are looking to their organisations to support, recognise and connect them during these difficult times.In this eBook, you will learn:How the ...

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    How Recognition programmes must evolve to meet changing circumstances – a Colt Technology Perspective

    2020-11-11T08:30:41Z

    As everyone is aware, the Coronavirus pandemic has, for the foreseeable future anyway, fundamentally changed the way we work and live. Offices remain closed or open with limited access and the most popular form of communication is through video conference. Remote working has become the norm, and organisations are having ...

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    Employee wellbeing in a shaken population

    2020-11-10T11:00:00Z

    Pension schemes don’t exist in isolation - the pension strategy always has to be looked at in the joint contexts of the wider employee benefit and engagement strategies. ‘Better outcomes for pension scheme members’ takes joined up thinking that incorporates the evolving employee experience. The Covid-19 pandemic ...

  • Paysafe launches wellbeing strategy to support staff through difficult periods
    Case Studies

    Paysafe launches wellbeing strategy to support staff through difficult periods

    2020-11-10T06:15:58Z

    Financial services organisation Paysafe introduced a new mental health strategy to support the wellbeing of its 3,000 employees through the Covid-19 pandemic (Coronavirus) and the winter months.To prepare its workforce for the winter months, in August 2020, the organisation launched the Headspace app to employees for free, encouraging them to ...

  • Becky Thoseby: Supporting employees during the festive period
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    Becky Thoseby: Supporting employees during the festive period

    2020-11-10T06:10:05Z

    With autumn weather already here, increased restrictions across England and grim predictions for the coming months, many people will be looking towards winter with trepidation, and this is likely to affect their wellbeing. At Ministry of Justice (MOJ), we have, therefore, been looking at how to safeguard employee wellbeing during ...

  • What health and wellbeing support should employers be offering during the festive period?
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    What health and wellbeing support should employers offer during the festive period?

    2020-11-10T06:00:03Z

    Need to know:Government restrictions could impact the number of social gatherings employees can attend over the festive period.The lack of social interaction during the pandemic has increased levels of stress among employees.Employers have a critical role to play in supporting the mental and physical health of staff during the festive ...

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    Busy Bees Benefits: 3 Crucial Ways To Support Employee Health

    2020-11-06T12:35:51Z

    If you often wonder how you, as an employer, can fulfil your obligations to your employees and facilitate their health and wellbeing, we can help.There is a range of employee benefits you can offer to your workforce to encourage a healthy work-life balance while supporting both their physical and mental ...

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    How salary sacrifice schemes work for furloughed employees

    2020-11-05T16:20:35Z

    With the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) now extended until March 2021, how will this affect your salary sacrifice schemes?Thankfully, employers have options when it comes to managing their salary sacrifice schemes for furloughed employees and employers can work with their staff to come to the best arrangement to suit ...

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    Case Studies

    Frazer-Nash sets out key reward and benefits priorities for 2021

    2020-11-05T06:00:12Z

    Frazer-Nash has a clear idea of what its three key focuses are for 2021: employee health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, and personal development.During the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, the engineering and technology organisation set a precedent of where it sees it can support its employees' wellbeing now and into 2021. ...

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    Taking progressive wellbeing initiatives even further

    2020-11-03T10:56:26Z

    Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexThe employee benefits industry has spent the last few months focusing heavily on employee wellbeing in the time of Covid, and how to get initiatives off the ground. But what about those organisations who were already taking significant wellbeing steps before 2020? For this ...

  • Aegon signs Race at Work charter to adress racial inequality
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    Aegon signs Race at Work charter to address racial inequality

    2020-11-03T10:41:43Z

    Financial services organisation Aegon has signed the Race at Work charter, committing to address the issues that employees from ethnic minority groups face in the workplace.The race charter, created in partnership with the UK government and charity Business in the Community (BITC), has set out to improve the workplace quality ...

  • Rina Pandya: What can employers do to lift team spirits and combat potential isolation in winter?
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    Rina Pandya: What can employers do to lift team spirits and combat potential isolation in winter?

    2020-11-03T06:00:56Z

    At the beginning of this year, we could never have imagined how different our way of working would become. Many employees have had to adapt to remote working, with the workplace reinventing itself in home offices and around dining tables. This transition has been challenging, however, as the year draws ...

  • Georgina Cameron: What can employers do to lift team spirits and combat potential isolation in winter?
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    Georgina Cameron: What can employers do to lift team spirits and combat potential isolation in winter?

    2020-11-03T06:00:51Z

    We have learned a lot in 2020, whether that is working out how to wear a face mask without steaming up your glasses or discovering how to be comfortable with seeing yourself on video calls. However, as we move into the darker months, the main lesson I will be taking ...

  • Robert Green: What can employers do to lift team spirits and combat potential isolation in winter?
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    Robert Green: What can employers do to lift team spirits and combat potential isolation in winter?

    2020-11-03T06:00:17Z

    There is no doubt the world has changed dramatically this year, having a significant impact on the way we live and work. With winter looming and employees still predominantly working from home, we need to be conscious that employees may feel isolated.That is why at Colt, our main aim is ...

  • Welsh social care staff to receive full sick pay
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    Welsh social care staff to receive full sick pay

    2020-11-02T11:34:53Z

    Social care staff working in Wales will receive enhanced sick pay entitlements to support them financially during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, effective 1 November.The new scheme, which has been put in place until 31 March 2021, will ensure that all social care staffworking in care homes, domiciliary care and personal ...

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    How can employers support staff with long-term conditions during the pandemic?

    2020-10-30T15:59:36Z

    The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a host of health and wellbeing issues coming to light over the past 10 months. This includes stress, anxiety and poor mental health as a result of increased isolation due to lockdown or increased pressure on finances.This, combined with the effect of “long COVID”, ...

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    Why Cycling to Work is a Great Alternative to the Gym

    2020-10-30T15:52:01Z

    We all know that exercise is hugely beneficial, but it can be difficult to slot into everyday life. With further restrictions on gyms and indoor exercise, finding an alternative to gym memberships has never been so important.As well as being an excellent alternative to spending money on a gym membership, ...

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    The Complete Guide to Reward and Recognition

    2020-10-30T08:30:30Z

    Reward and recognition has arguably never been more important at a time where employees everywhere are pulling together to support their companies, communities and each other.Getting it right can be tricky, but the payoff for doing so is huge.According to research by WorkHuman, employees at companies with no recognition programme ...

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    Support and counselling: Wellbeing in numbers

    2020-10-30T06:00:46Z

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