All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 147
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Supplier articleChecklist: Building a Culture of Wellbeing for your Organisation
To secure long-term, sustainable success, employers need a happy, healthy and motivated workforce. This doesn’t just happen – it requires effort, energy, leadership buy-in and resources.A culture of wellbeing that helps your people thrive as individuals will also help your organisation thrive in its interactions with your key stakeholders, including ...
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AnalysisHow can employers support the long-term physical health of their workforce?
Need to know:The physical health of employees has been put at risk due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic across all sectors and industries.Organisations can introduce initiatives and incentives to encourage and motivate staff to engage in physical activity during the crisis.Those who are unable to work from home require extensive ...
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OpinionIta Waller: More needs to be done to support the long-term health of employees
Last year fundamentally challenged long-established certainties about what we think is safe and what we believe to be healthy.The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic brought many changes and challenges to our working lives that we neither predicted nor planned, and people who experienced health conditions before found their feelings were intensified.The health ...
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OpinionDr Lynda Shaw: Employers need to prioritise employee health and wellbeing
We have been living in a heightened state of fear and stress due to the uncertainty of the pandemic. The best leaders at this time are not just visionaries, nor are they simply those who are able to make decisions quickly and adapt to changing circumstances. The best leaders in ...
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Case StudiesNSG Pilkington provides health kiosk to support employees through the pandemic
Manufacturing organisation NSG Pilkington has had to adapt to the health concerns that come with having a workforce unable to work from home.In November 2020 in the midst of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, many employees were worried about their physical and mental health due to the uncertainty that the current ...
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How 4 must-have employee wellbeing tools can improve the employee experience
By Charlotte Neal, Senior Employee Engagement Specialist at Reward GatewayWhen you look after your people, you also teach them to look after themselves – that’s a little thought that sprung to mind when reflecting on the past nine months. In a year that brought us more peaks and troughs than ...
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Supplier articleLaunching a global benefits platform
A digital fireside chat with Tatiana BeidarIf you’re interested in learning more about how organisations are using global benefits technology to bring their offering to life, this session will get you off to a winning start. We’re joined by Tatiana Beidar, Head of Compensation and Benefits for the APJ region, ...
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ArticleeBay appoints Cornelius Boone as chief people officer
Online auction giant eBay has announced the appointment of Cornelius Boone to SVP, chief people officer – a role that will see him responsible for all elements of HR internationally.His initial remit will be to drive business performance, talent development and acquisition, learning and development strategies, compensation and benefits, HR ...
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ArticleMcDonald’s named Top Employer for working mums
McDonald’s, UBS, PwC and IBM (UK) are all among the UK’s leading organisations for initiatives supporting working parents, according to the annual Top Employers Awards run by employment agency Workingmums.co.uk.The awards – now in their eleventh year – celebrate employers that go above and beyond in helping stuff juggle their ...
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ArticleEmployee health suffering due to lack of home-working assessments
A poll of employees by Fellowes Brands has revealed the true extent to which enforced working from home is taking its toll on people.In a poll of 1,000 UK office staff who had been working from home for at least four months, it found more than a third (38%) were ...
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Supplier articleHow does the Eye Voucher scheme work?
According to research by the World Health Organisation, around 2.2 billion people across the world have vision impairment or blindness. The same research estimates that around 1 billion cases could have been prevented.Based on this research, it’s estimated around 1 in 3 of your workforce have eyecare needs and around ...
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ArticleWilko stuns union by slashing sickness benefit terms
Retailer Wilko has been told it should "hang its head in shame" by the GMB union after it drastically cut sick pay terms for employees without any prior consultation.The move, announced to staff last Friday and effective from 1 February, means that if any employee takes a single day of ...
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OpinionAlexandra Evreinoff: A truly inclusive benefits strategy can be an effective support mechanism
Employers already know that offering a competitive compensation package is one of the most effective ways to attract and retain talent. What’s often overlooked, however, is the opportunity to better support their workforce by ensuring their employee benefits strategy is truly inclusive.While compiling a new strategy, employers should keep relevance ...
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AnalysisHow can employers align their reward strategy and diversity and inclusion policies?
Need to know:Equality is firmly on the board agenda, with events such as the pandemic and Black Lives Matter forcing organisations to treat employees fairly.Technology can play a key role in driving diversity and inclusion through reward, enabling greater benefit choice and more personalisation of messaging.By highlighting inequalities, the pandemic ...
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Case StudiesMitie reviews benefits proposition to promote and celebrate inclusivity
Facilities management and professional services firm Mitie employs around 77,500 people across the UK. Most of these employees work in frontline roles such as cleaning, security, engineering and waste management.Inclusion and diversity are important to the organisation and it recently announced a five-year strategy to promote these values across the ...
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ArticleMental health fears not being met with action
New data from employee experience agency Home has found high employer levels of worry about staff mental health, but less actual help in dealing with it.According to the poll, 80% of organisations said employee mental health was being negatively impacted by the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. But despite this level of ...
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ArticleEdelman offers paid 'time-out' days to support staff through menopause
The UK & Ireland arm of global PR, firm, Edelman, has announced it is to offer 10 fully-paid ‘time-out’ days for anyone needing respite from the impacts of the menopause.The perk – which was announced late last week – does not just give women paid time off, but also extends ...
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ArticlePoll: Four-fifths of employers are giving working parents more flexibility to cope
Employee Benefits Poll: An overwhelming majority of organisations say they are providing staff with greater flexibility to help working parents cope during the current lockdown.This week’s straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers has found more than four-fifths (82%) cite offering flexibility as the main way in which they are supporting employees ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: How can you reduce presenteeism?
Presenteeism is when employees are physically present in the workplace but due to physical illness, stress or mental health issues, they may be less productive, engaged or motivated.Following the coronavirus pandemic and with increased numbers working from home, presenteeism is a serious issue that should be addressed.The first step to ...
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ArticleAviva offers employees wellbeing day off
Insurer Aviva is giving all of its 16,000 UK employees an extra day off this year to help boost their wellbeing.Employees will be able to use the extra day of leave as they wish and it can be taken at any point during the year, on top of their usual ...