All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 165
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Allianz Partners UK signs Time to Change mental health commitment
Insurance firm Allianz Partners UK has reinforced its commitment to addressing employee mental health by signing the Time to Change Employer Pledge. The pledge marks a commitment to change the way an organisation thinks about and responds to workplace mental health problems. It also requires employers to implement a 12-month ...
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Glocalisation: achieving your global benefits aims with local tailoring
Previously, we looked at how a global health and wellbeing strategy has endless possibilities, and takes many forms. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a written down, set-in-stone, one-size-fits-all approach.Whilst a global healthcare setup is important to any international organisation, the challenge is to achieve a balance between the company’s ...
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First Steps to Fitness
If you're thinking about going to the gym for the first time, congratulations! From looking and feeling better, to improving sleep, to keeping your heart healthy, there are so many reasons to make working out a part of your life.However, we also know that getting started can be incredibly overwhelming—it ...
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Shaping benefits strategy for a future workforce
Need to know:Both the nature of work and the demographics of the workforce are changing, so a benefits strategy must be fit for future purpose in order to attract and retain talent.Generational differences are causing diverse wants and needs to emerge, which must be taken into account. However, some strategies, ...
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Gardner Leader gives 135 employees unlimited paid holiday
Law firm Gardner leader has launched an unlimited paid holiday policy for all of its 135 employees, rolling the scheme out to four offices across the South East and London.The scheme was launched on 1 February 2020, following a successful 12-month trial during 2019. The policy allows for unlimited annual ...
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Get Your Workforce Ready for Time to Talk Day
Time to Talk Day is designed to encourage everyone to talk about mental health. 1/4 of us are affected by mental health problems and in fact all of us have mental health, yet for many it is still a taboo topic. Around 6,000 people a year take their own lives ...
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Finland to equalise parental leave allowances
Finland’s government will equalise all parental leave, regardless of gender, to give working fathers more time to spend with their children and to promote gender equality. As a result of this reform, which will come into force in 2021 at the earliest, both parents will receive a quota of 164 ...
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Smarkets launches new mental health initiative for 85 employees on Time to Talk Day
Peer-to-peer trading platform Smarkets has launched a new initiative called tête-à-tête, aimed at helping improve the mental health of its 85 employees. The initiative, launching today (6 February 2020) to coincide with national Time to Talk Day, will encourage employees to meet in small groups to discuss their mental health ...
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Two-fifths do not think their benefits package meets the needs of all generations
More than two-fifths (44%) of employers do not believe that their benefits packages meet the needs of all generations present within the workforce, according to research by Aon. The UK Benefits and trends survey 2020, which canvassed 200 participants across a range of sectors, found that 38% thought they met ...
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Two NHS trusts pilot health and wellbeing platform for 11,000 employees
Two NHS trusts are piloting a new employee health and wellbeing platform for their combined 11,000 employees. West London NHS Trust and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) commenced the pilot programme, which will run until June, on 31 January 2020. The platform, called Juice, is provided ...
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Three-fifths of employers plan to invest more in digital health products
More than three-fifths (62%) of UK employers are likely to invest more in digital health products over the next five years, according to research by Mercer Marsh Benefits. The February 2020 Health on demand report surveyed 1,000 UK employees and 100 UK businesses. It also found that 47% of employees ...
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David Stone: What should employee wellbeing look like in 2020?
Ever since British economist John Maynard Keynes first predicted that working weeks would continue to get shorter way back in 1933, organisations, employees and governments have toyed with the idea of the four-day working week. Though attempts of this new way of working have been overwhelmingly positive, from Perpetual Guardian’s ...
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Duncan Brown: What should employee wellbeing look like in 2020?
Workplace wellbeing has apparently rocketed to the top of every benefits professional's agenda for 2020. The latest Benefit trends survey, published in October 2019 by Willis Towers Watson, for example, found staff wellbeing at the top of the benefits league table, with 76% of employers planning to incorporate it into ...
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Nick Pahl: What should employee wellbeing look like in 2020?
In December 2019, the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) published a report, The value of occupational health to workplace wellbeing, which examined how occupational health practitioners and providers can add value to workplace wellbeing initiatives. The report also emphasised four broad areas of the knowledge, skills and competences required to ...
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Enrique González: What should employee wellbeing look like in 2020?
2020 is not just any other year; it is the start of a new decade full of challenges. We are living at a time when people are demanding more just and equal societies, promoting equal opportunities for everyone, and a more sustainable world in all aspects: environmental, economic and social.Employers ...
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Workplace Wellness and how to promote it
Our health and workplace wellness are important, but most of the time it is overshadowed by the importance of our work life. Wellness is no separate entity- it’s an aggregate of our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health; we must ensure that we take the necessary steps to ensure we ...
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Newcastle City Council, GSK and Pinsent Masons recognised for LGBT inclusion
Law firm Pinsent Masons, pharmaceutical organisation GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and investment bank Citi have been included in charity organisation Stonewall's Top 100 Employers Index, with Newcastle City Council taking the top spot for 2020. The Top 100 Index comprises a yearly list of businesses that have worked towards achieving inclusion for ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Gympass signs charter to prioritise employee mental health
EXCLUSIVE: Corporate wellness platform Gympass has pledged a commitment to normalising conversations around mental health in the workplace among its 37 employees by signing the InsideOut Charter. The charter asks organisations to openly demonstrate leadership engagement in mental health, and prioritise tackling stigma around the subject by following key principles. ...
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Jonckers introduces unlimited paid holiday globally
Global translation organisation Jonckers is implementing an unlimited paid holiday scheme for all 350 employees across the 10 countries in which it operates.Following an initial trial in its Czech and Slovak offices, which began this month, the organisation will roll out unlimited holiday for its 172 Belgian employees from March. ...
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Infographic: Supporting your employees with their physical wellbeing
92% of your employees want to improve their fitnessYet they are not making the most of the physical wellbeing support on offer, with 2 in 5 blaming low motivation for not keeping fit.Read Thomsons Online Benefits’ infographic for how to support your employees with their physical wellbeing. Packed with standout ...