All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 147
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Supplier articlePrioritising your team’s safety as we return to the workplace
By the end of September, as many as 59% UK employers will be ready to welcome employees back to the workplace. But with the second wave of COVID-19 looming large, it’s evident we are still a far cry away from the pre-pandemic office culture. As COVID-19 is ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Personalisation & Health
Personalisation is about using data to identify what benefits your employees may need. The data gathered can then be used to tailor benefit schemes to the requirements of your staff. This creates a smarter solution that also benefit employers, boosts motivation and retains staff.Over the last few years, personalisation technology ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Taking Steps to Manage Productivity in 2021
Going forward, it’s important that businesses start to prepare for 2021. Taking lessons from the last few months, now is the perfect opportunity to press the reset button and take the time to look at how your business and employees are doing.There are no handbooks of what should be done. ...
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ArticleOutsourced workers at Yeovil District Hospital to receive Covid-19 sick pay
Outsourced employees working at NHS Trust Yeovil district hospital will receive full sick pay for if they have to self-isolate due to contracting or being in contact with someone who has Covid-19 (Coronavirus).Hospital cleaners, porters, security and catering who are contracted to work for the hospital have not been receiving ...
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Poll: Will you be allowing staff to carry additional annual leave over to 2021?
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Supplier articleWhen going on holiday means being stuck at home
As more and more countries are being added to the Government’s quarantine list, is it worth taking the risk of being quarantined, and going on holiday anyway?Simply put, for many people the answer is yes, but is that because they don’t understand the reality?Holidays are vital to our emotional and ...
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ArticleGolden retriever appointed chief comfort officer to support wellbeing of front-line staff
Something for the weekend: A three-year-old golden retriever has been appointed as a chief comfort officer to support the wellbeing of front-line workers at HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake.The dog conveniently named 'Joy' took on the role to bring joy and love to all front-line employees going through emotional hardship ...
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ArticleAccenture, Allianz and L’Oreal named best global employers for diversity and inclusion
Accenture (pictured), Blackrock, Allianz and L'Oreal have been included in the Top 100 most diverse and inclusive global organisations, ranked by the diversity and inclusion index (D&I index).American global investment management organisation Blackrock based in New York topped the list with an overall score of 81%, global professional services business ...
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Supplier articleThe Digital Watercooler: A CPO and CEO’s view on 2020
Take a look at the pandemic from the perspective of the business leaders who have been spearheading workplace change. Benefex’s CPO, Kathryn Kendall, and Founder & CEO, Matt Macri-Waller, talk us through their own experiences of managing a business through the rollercoaster that has been Covid-19. From the early days ...
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Supplier articleThe importance of culture continuity during COVID-19
How have organisations managed their employees and culture during COVID-19? That was the question Achievers sought to answer in June 2020.We turned to our research and science department, the Workforce Institute, who surveyed more than 1,000 employees on how well their personal values aligned with those of their organisation. Perhaps ...
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ArticleOyo introduces flexible-working policy
Hospitality business Oyo has introduced a flexible-working policy to support the wellbeing of its employees. Its new policy, called Work From Anywhere, will give UK employees the choice to work from home, its offices in London, or choose an alternative arrangement. All employees who choose to remotely will receive £100 ...
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Supplier articleAdmiral chooses Gympass to support entire wellbeing spectrum for its 7,500 employees
Admiral Group plc – best-known for its private motor insurance and home cover services, including well-known brands such as Admiral, elephant.co.uk, confused.com, Diamond and Bell – has partnered with Gympass to fulfil a comprehensive employee wellbeing strategy for its 7,500-strong UK workforce. A driving force behind this decision was Admiral ...
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Supplier articleIntroducing the COVID-19 Return to Work app
Over the coming months, businesses will need frameworks that allow them to recover from the economic damage of the pandemic whilst ensuring the physical and mental safety of their workforces.However, as fears of the second wave are being realised; the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring that 13th September 2020 saw ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 46% of employers have increased health and wellbeing focus due to Covid-19
Almost half (46%) of employers have increased their organisation's focus on employee health and wellbeing due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits Healthcare research 2020, which surveyed 200 HR decision-makers, also found that 46% were confident that they already had a comprehensive health ...
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ArticleMitie awards 25,000 employees extra day of annual leave
Outsourcing organisation Mitie has awarded its 25,000 employees an extra day of holiday to reward them for their hard work during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.This extra day of annual leave for front-line employees is in addition to the access to health and wellbeing support it is offering its employees during ...
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Supplier articlePain management consultation: What employers need to know
With musculoskeletal (MSK) problems accounting for two fifths (40%) of all sickness absence before the pandemic, and predictions of an increase in MSK related insurance claims due to inadequate home working arrangements, eating more and exercising less over the last few months, it seems timely that NICE is suggesting a ...
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Supplier articleHome working not working from home
As remote working has suddenly become the norm, it’s time to ponder what that really means.Picture this. The sun is warming your face. The fresh air is filling your lungs. You raise your coconut to sip your drink, but the gentle breeze moves the straw. You chase it with your ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Zurich UK to discuss embracing flexible-working at EB Reset 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Francis, diversity and inclusion lead at insurance organisation Zurich UK will discuss how businesses, have and can, further adapt to flexible working among their workforce at Employee Benefits Reset 2020.The strategy session titled ‘Embracing flexible working’ will take place at 2.30pm on Monday 5 October in the first ...
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ArticleScottish government introduces mental health support package for school staff
The Scottish government has introduced a new funding package to support the mental health of employees working at schools due to the pressures of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, effective October 2020.The mental health support, provided by Barnardo’s Scotland, and charity Place2Be, will provide online one-to-one counselling sessions, as well as ...
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Supplier articlePreparing for a possible second wave of Coronavirus - is there anything you can do?
Despite lots of countries making strides to keep coronavirus under control, the fact is that this bug is still out there. At the moment, it’s not currently known how many of us have immunity to it. Estimates vary widely, and there’s a lot of speculation going on. Governments are trying ...