All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 149
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Article34% of employees are more productive working from home
Just over one third (34%) of UK employees believe that they have become more productive since they started working from home due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, according to research by Qualtrics.Its Work Different survey, which surveyed more than 2,000 UK employees, also found that just under one-third of employees ...
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Supplier articleA Toxic Work Environment
Toxic workplaces have been one of the most talked about topics in recent months. Especially after employees of the Ellen DeGeneres Show described a toxic work culture in which many claim to have experienced fear, racism and a general disregard for their health and wellbeing. It’s normal ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Reset online series to explore the latest HR insights and solutions
Employee Benefits Reset online series, which will take place 5 October to 16 October 2020, will play host to a number of speakers discussing the latest trends, insights and solutions in the HR, reward and benefits industry.Up to four events will take place per day, covering the latest topics including ...
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Case StudiesJohn Lewis recommunicates health insurance to staff during Covid-19
Throughout the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, John Lewis has recommunicated its group risk insurance benefits to its 83,000 employees.The employer recommunicated its private medical insurance, life assurance, and financial assistance options to employees by utilising its in-house support phone helpline in March 2020 to support employees who were looking for more ...
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ArticleRut Stefansdottir: How can employers support the government's obesity strategy and improve employee health?
The UK government’s plan to tackle obesity should be looked at from a wider perspective. Employers should not be focusing on employee weight loss but they should look at the many components that contribute to improving the health, physical and mental wellbeing of their workforce.The approach we have taken at ...
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ArticleCharlotte Dymock: How can employers support the government's obesity strategy and help improve employee health?
We know that a sedentary lifestyle is a health risk factor, with traditional desk-based office work a significant contributor to the problem. Employers therefore, have a responsibility to mitigate the health impacts for themillions of workers tethered to their desk chairs for eight hours a day. But leading with ‘weight ...
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ArticleBecky Hewitt: How can employers support the government's obesity strategy and improve employee health?
More employers are realising the importance of supporting their people in improving theirhealth and fitness. We know that being more active in everyday life can bring benefits for both the physical and mental health of our employees and also helpto reduce absence levels and increase employee engagement.So, wetake a holistic ...
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Supplier articlePost viral fatigue for COVID-19 survivors
You contracted COVID-19, but weren’t ill enough to need hospitalisation. You battled through the acute stages of the illness yourself, and now your temperature is back to normal and your cough has subsided. You’ve started feeling better, but it’s a few weeks down the line and you’re still finding it ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: The New Normal & What That Means for Work
Over the last few months, businesses have needed to manage the curve-balls that have been thrown their way. It has been a period of great learning for many, with business owners, managers and employees forced to review how they operate.Managing the stress and anxiety that comes alongside these changes has ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Why Cycling to Work Beats Your Gym Membership
Expensive contracts, annoying machine hoggers and exercise classes held at the wrong times – these are all part of your average gym membership.However, the outbreak of the corona-virus and the subsequent lock down has showed people across the country that you no longer need to be a member of your ...
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Supplier articleRegister for Xexec and Colt Webinar: How Recognition programmes must evolve to meet changing circumstances.
Xexec will be hosting the next of its series of Expert Webinars and we’re delighted to invite you to join on Tuesday 8th September 2020 at 11:30AM. The next one will be hosted by Jamie King, Director, Global Rewards at Xexec together with a special guest, Ann Cain, Global Mobility ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Supporting grief during a pandemic
Sunday 30 August marks National Grief Awareness Day in the UK. While grief is a very present issue for thousands at any one time, this year may be particularly poignant for many given the more-than 46,000 deaths that have occurred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK ...
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ArticleAirbnb extends remote working policy until August 2021
Travel business Airbnb has extended its remote working policy until August 2021 to support the health and wellbeing of its 6,300 employees during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Despite its offices reopening this month, the organisation has given its workforce the flexibility to choose whether they would like to return to the ...
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ArticleZofia Bajorek: What role do employers play in helping staff to lose weight or improve their health and fitness?
The government’s new obesity strategy contains a number of elements including a call to action to help people lose weight and advance the adoption of weight management practices, seemingly focusing more on future prevention rather than on measures to help those who already live with obesity. Some critics of ...
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Supplier articleLooking ahead at the future of HR
Welcome back to our last blog in our series: Shaping the new vision for HR. In parts one and two, we explored how the role of HR may change in a post-pandemic world, and insight into what HR's top priorities for the workplace will be. In our last post, we'll ...
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OpinionAmber Clayton: The pandemic’s impact on employee voluntary benefits
Covid-19 is disrupting economies and affecting household incomes and mental health alike. With these conditions in mind employers are taking necessary measures to maintain existing talent and ensure both employer and employee can endure. Changing household circumstances have resulted in financial, legal, and dependent care issues, as well as taking ...
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Case StudiesNominet encourages employees to cycle to work
UK domain name registry Nominet is encouraging its 250 employees to get more active with its bikes-for-work scheme. Employees can buy a bike through the organisation’s salary sacrifice arrangement and purchase any model up to the value of £3,000, spreading payments over a 12-month period. Beverley Hamblet-Bowes, HR director at ...
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Supplier articleWe’re all going on a staycation – what to keep in the medicine kit for the great British summer!
I’m sure by now most of us will have come to terms with the fact that many of our holiday plans have changed dramatically. Dreams of golden sands, palm trees and exotic cocktails may have been replaced by thoughts of deckchairs in the garden, or towels and a thermos flask ...
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Supplier articlePrioritising mental health as employees return to the office
Gympass is proud to put its name to a letter published in The Times (August 25, 2020) that pledges to prioritise mental health as employees return to work and the office after the long lock down. Mind, the mental health charity, surveyed 16,000 people during lock down and found that ...
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Article70% of employers would pay for employees' Covid-19 tests
Seven in ten (70%) of employers are willing to pay for Covid-19 (Coronavirus) tests if an employee should request one, according to research by Huma.The survey of over 5,000 UK employees and 2,000 UK businesses, published in August 2020, also found that almost half (45%) of workplaces are ready to ...