All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 196
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AnalysisBig city benefits versus rural reward: How location impacts benefits strategy
Need to know: While there are universal hygiene factors, the employee experience can vary significantly in different locations.Taking into account commuting times, wellbeing stressors, pay levels and lifestyles, employers can create a truly engaging benefits strategy.Some perks are universally popular, but need to be tailored to local needs, or communicated ...
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OpinionDr Kellie Vincent: Challenges and opportunities for urban employees
London features as one of the Rough Guide's top five cities to visit; however, according to Expert Market's The best and worst cities for commuting report, published in June 2018, it is one of the 10 worst cities in the world. In the same survey, Leicester made the top 10; ...
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Supplier articleHow to improve your posture at work
The British Chiropractic Association has shockingly revealed that 33% of employees have taken at least one day off work due to back or neck pain last year, with almost half reporting that their pain is triggered by spending long periods of time sitting at their desks.British people spend on average ...
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Supplier articleEmployee benefits: how to get your business known for the right things
As a business, you don’t need us to tell you that reputation matters; public perception of your brand can be critical to its success or failure. Over the past few years, Xexec has been regularly ranked in the Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 and we’ve seen first-hand the positive ...
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ArticleBradbury Group launches suicide prevention training
Steel door and physical security manufacturer Bradbury Group has introduced suicide prevention training for its 200 employees, to support staff mental health and wellbeing and raise awareness around suicide support services.The training, which was launched on Monday 25 February 2019, is provided via video by Zero Suicide Alliance, a collaboration ...
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Supplier articleAdd more activity into your working day
It is hard to fit exercise, or any form of activity into your working day, when you are stuck at your desk working 8 hours a day, and deadlines are stacking up. There are a few things that can have a positive effect on your fitness levels.Start with your commuteWalk ...
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OpinionJames Townsend: What will employment status look like in 2019?
Until recent years, the term 'gig economy' was virtually non-existent. However, a number of high-profile cases involving organisations such as Pimlico Plumbers and Uber have put the employment status of casual workers in the spotlight.Recently, the courts and tribunals have been tasked with determining how those working in the gig ...
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ArticleOnly one day left until Employee Benefits Connect 2019
Employee Benefits Connect 2019, the one-day conference and exhibition for in-house senior HR, benefits and reward professionals, is taking place tomorrow (Wednesday 27 February 2019) at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge.Delegates will be able to gain insights on and discuss leading trends in benefits and reward, thanks to an extensive ...
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ArticleSpencer Group launches mental health first aiders and champions
Engineering organisation Spencer Group has launched a network of four mental health first aiders and seven mental health champions, to encourage its 300 employees to talk about their mental wellbeing.Headquartered at Humber Quays, Hull Marina, the organisation also has offices in London and Glasgow, as well as teams working on ...
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Supplier articleCreating healthy snacking choices in the workplace
Snacking can’t be helped when we sit at our desks for over eight hours a day. However, eventually those snacks add up, and all of a sudden, the weight can start to pile on. Creating healthy snacking choices in the workplace is not as hard as it seems.To begin with, ...
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Case StudiesSunrise Senior Living puts recognition at the heart of its benefits strategy
Private residential and nursing care home business Sunrise Senior Living centres its benefits strategy around peer-to-peer and top-down recognition, aligned with its business goals and principles of service.Primarily, this is achieved through the organisation’s Heart and Soul programme, which encourages its 5,000 UK-based employees to recognise colleagues that go over ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Sunrise Senior Living
The benefits offered by Sunrise Senior Living: Pension, protection and payA defined contribution (DC) pension scheme for all employees, delivered through a master trust. Contribution levels vary depending on seniority.Income protection is available for salaried employees on an employer-funded basis. This pays up to 70% of their basic salary for ...
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ArticleAdmiral Group, EY and Halfords among Best Big Companies to Work for in 2019
Accenture, Admiral Group (pictured), Deloitte, EY, Halfords and Lookers are among the organisations recognised in the Sunday Times’ 25 Best Big Companies to Work for 2019 list.The Sunday Times’ Best Companies lists are based on the results of anonymous, 70-question employee engagement surveys, designed to allow employees to comment on ...
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ArticleA quarter of small to medium employers are too busy to support mental health
More than a quarter (28%) of small to medium employers state that they are too busy to think about supporting mental health in the workplace, with 48% believing they could be doing more in this area, according to research by small business platform Xero.Its survey of 500 small and medium ...
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Case StudiesStone Junction offers flexible reward to support employees' work-life balance
Specialist technological PR agency Stone Junction was established in 2016, at which point founder and managing director Richard Stone created a system of clearly defined, personalised objectives for each member of staff. This system allows employees to progress through salary scales and gain promotions by achieving set goals.As a result, ...
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Supplier articleHow to develop a new healthy habit
Have you ever started a diet, or exercise programme and struggled to make it last longer than a week? If you are like the millions of people, who have set out with the best intentions, full guns blazing, but lost your momentum – don’t worry.Research has shown that it takes ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Discuss wellbeing strategies at Employee Benefits Connect in one week
EXCLUSIVE: There is one week to go until Employee Benefits Connect 2019, at which delegates will hear from Mark Witte (pictured), head of health and risk consulting at Aon, and Sarah Robson, senior communications consultant at Aon, about how to review benefits investment and devise a forward-thinking, data-based strategy to ...
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ArticleThree-fifths cite having more than 28 days of annual leave as an important benefit
Approximately three-fifths (59%) of employees state that having more than 28 days of annual leave within their benefits package is important; however, only 36% of employers offer this, according to research by recruitment organisation Hays.The Hays salary and recruiting trends 2019 guide, which surveyed 7,820 employers and 14,889 employees, also ...
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Case StudiesCoventry Building Society introduces paid carers' leave to mitigate financial worries
Coventry Building Society's paid carers' leave initiative, which launched in July 2018, enables all 2,500 direct employees working across its 70 branches and six head office sites to take up to three days of paid leave a year to accommodate caring responsibilities.Lucy Becque, HR director at Coventry Building Society, says: ...
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Case StudiesAviva introduces paid carers’ leave to help employees remain at work
In October 2017, Aviva introduced paid carers’ leave, to ensure that members of its 16,000-strong UK employee base could deal with responsibilities and events in their personal lives, without exiting the workplace.The carers’ leave enables employees who have a dependant, either permanently or in an emergency, to take 10 days ...