All Healthcare and wellbeing articles – Page 86

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    HSBC UK, First Direct, M&S Bank become endometriosis-friendly employers

    2022-03-23T10:52:37Z

    Banks HSBC UK, First Direct and M&S Bank have pledged to support their employees by joining the Endometriosis Friendly Employer scheme this month (March).Since it was launched in 2019 by the charity Endometriosis UK, more than 80 public, private and non-profit organisations have joined the scheme, so committing to developing ...

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    Opinion

    Rebecca Berry and Sarah Taylor: Living with Covid raises questions for employers

    2022-03-23T06:00:33Z

    The change in emphasis of the Government’s Living with Covid guidance raises many questions for employers; what does the lifting of the legal requirement to self-isolate for those who test positive for Covid-19 mean for employers? How should employers implement the guidance that those who test positive for Covid-19 should ...

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    Top 5 steps to help employees engage with their pensions

    2022-03-22T11:59:06Z

    The need to support employees to engage with their pensions and retirement savings has never been more important. Many workplaces now provide financial wellbeing programmes to help their employees engage with their pensions and understand the choices to be made at retirement.To help with this, WEALTH at work have included ...

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    Three tools for supporting employee resilience

    2022-03-22T11:57:43Z

    As a leader in your organisation, you can make a real difference to your employees by implementing the right wellbeing solution. But because there is no one-size-fits-all approach, you need to find out what your employees most value. This may not be the same as pre-pandemic, as the recent experience ...

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    Boots to pay staff HRT prescriptions costs

    2022-03-22T11:10:18Z

    Health and beauty retailer Boots has announced it will cover the cost of prescriptions for its employees who take Hormone Replacement Treatment (HRT) from next month (April).According to the business, which employs 51,000 team members across the UK, with 80% being women, the move is part of its aim to ...

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    HOW THE PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED REWARD PLANNING

    2022-03-22T08:53:59Z

    There are few areas of the working world that Covid-19 hasn’t affected.From hastening the trend towards hybrid and remote working, through to encouraging more people than ever to consider their career options, the pandemic continues to pose a number of challenges for businesses—and nowhere is this more true than with ...

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    Analysis

    Are employers doing enough to address mens' mental health needs?

    2022-03-22T06:00:34Z

    There is still a stigma associated with addressing mental health in the workplace, and moreso for male employees.Employers should encourage help-seeking through easy accessible means that can remain anonymous, for example, employee assistance programmes (EAPs) can be accessed remotely and confidentially by telephone and online.Providing access to the right tools ...

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    Ipsos implements paid leave for pregnancy loss

    2022-03-18T11:39:50Z

    London-based market research business Ipsos has introduced paid leave for employees who have had a pregnancy loss or are undergoing fertility treatment, regardless of their length of service.Any employee going through pregnancy loss will be given up to four weeks of paid leave and paid time off to allow them ...

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    Blenheim Palace launches wellbeing initiative

    2022-03-18T11:33:49Z

    Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire has introduced a wellbeing programme for its staff as part of a campaign to create a healthy workplace environment.As of this week, employees are able to take part in mindfulness walks, picnics, planting trees and litter-picking, as well as getting the chance to pet sheepdogs, lambs ...

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    Are bad hybrid working habits keeping staff awake?

    2022-03-18T09:00:24Z

    Something for the weekend: Many of us saw our lifestyles shift dramatically during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, with the abrupt change to remote or hybrid working affecting some workers’ ability to sleep. Indeed, regularly updated YouGov research How many hours Brits sleep at night revealed that as at March 2022, ...

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    The top 10 most-read articles between 11 March – 17 March 2022

    2022-03-18T09:00:17Z

    The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 11 March and 17 March 2022 were: DHL Supply Chain launches menopause guideSalesforce puts health at the heart of hybrid workingCurrys gives staff 5% pay riseRoyal Mail Group reports 1.4% gender pay gapHermes UK introduces pension scheme in rebrandAverage earnings growth for ...

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    Highgate IT Solutions to trial four-day week

    2022-03-16T09:01:38Z

    IT solutions provider Highgate IT Solutions has announced that it will trial a four-day working week for one business quarter from 1 April.The business, which currently employees 16 workers, will adopt the 100:80:100 model, which means it will commit to pay 100% of employees’ salaries for 80% of the usual ...

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    Opinion

    Katie Ash: Protecting employee mental health is more than just a workplace perk

    2022-03-16T06:00:29Z

    As such a large part of an employee’s life is spent at work, it’s important that employers play an active role in ensuring that their workers develop and maintain a good quality of life and a healthy relationship with their place of work.This is particularly important post pandemic, when it ...

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    EXCLUSIVE: Hybrid work affected wellbeing aid from 59% of employers

    2022-03-15T10:44:48Z

    New research has revealed that 59% of employers found that the change in working patterns to a remote or hybrid approach has affected the way they support the health and wellbeing of their staff.The survey results from Group Risk Development (Grid), the industry body for the group risk protection sector, ...

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    Poll: 67% of employers either offering or planning to offer fertility support

    2022-03-15T09:27:38Z

    Employee Benefits poll: Two-thirds of employers now either offer or are considering offering fertility support to their employees.Fertility support can encompass things such as discounts on private fertility treatments, access to education, tests or specialists, or extra paid time off work.Just over 31% of respondents to an online survey said ...

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    Opinion

    Dr Karen Michell: Employers can offer multiple support options for employees' physical health

    2022-03-15T06:00:37Z

    The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, we all know, took the world by storm. While we soon learnt that most people who contracted the virus would get better, what became apparent later was that full recovery was not going to be the reality for everyone.In the UK alone an estimated 1.3 million ...

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    Case Studies

    Salesforce puts health at the heart of hybrid working

    2022-03-15T06:00:27Z

    Customer relationship management organisation Salesforce employs 75,000 people globally including several thousand in the UK and Ireland across a variety of customer-facing and global shared-services roles.Looking after all aspects of their health has always been important. Terri Moloney, senior director, employee success, at Salesforce, says: “We have a very diverse ...

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    Analysis

    How has the pandemic has affected employees’ physical health?

    2022-03-15T06:00:11Z

    Need to know:Musculoskeletal problems, weight gain and long Covid are among the physical health issues affecting employees, with missed cancer diagnoses also causing concern.Encouraging healthy habits such as regular screen breaks, walking meetings and ‘fake commutes’ will help to replicate office working conditions and encourage more physical activity.Digital delivery of ...

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    Opinion

    Cherry White: Employers should promote physical activity through the workplace

    2022-03-15T06:00:05Z

    When offices closed in March 2020, it forced a rushed transition to working from home (WFH) full time.Instead of sitting at ergonomically designed workstations, many employees suddenly found themselves hunched over kitchen counters or slouched on the sofa as they worked from tiny laptops. ‘Commuting’ simply meant stepping into a ...

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    DHL Supply Chain launches menopause guide

    2022-03-14T10:23:45Z

    Logistics business DHL Supply Chain has released a new menopause at work guide for its 40,000 employees to support those with the condition.Launched to coincide with this year’s International Women’s Day (8 March), the guide provides information, education and practical advice for line managers, as well as for anyone going ...