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AnalysisSeptember story of the month
Julie Hodgskin: Payroll and the General Data Protection RegulationPart of the process of preparing for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be to perform a payroll information data cleanse. This needs to be planned and methodically carried out by 25 May 2018.The Information Commissioner’s Office has given us ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 97% include employee assistance programmes in mental health support
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly all (97%) employer respondents that have a strategy to support the mental health of their workforce cite an employee assistance programme (EAP) as part of this, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2017, which surveyed 121 employer respondents in July ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 77% offer support or counselling services to some or all employees
EXCLUSIVE: More than three-quarters (77%) of employer respondents offer support or counselling services to some or all employees, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.Support or counselling benefits include employee assistance programmes (EAPs), other types of stress counselling, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, and other forms of counselling ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 67% have specific benefits in place to support staff mental health
EXCLUSIVE: More than two-thirds (67%) of respondents’ organisations have specific benefits and strategies in place to support their employees’ mental health, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.While narrower in scope, it is telling that when respondents to Employee Benefits’ Healthcare research between 2001 and 2013 were asked ...
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ArticleEmployee motivation in numbers
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OpinionSimon Richardson: How to motivate staff without providing a pay increase
Reward managers of a certain age could be forgiven for looking back nostalgically to the certainty of their role in the ‘80s and ‘90s where their main objective was to produce ever-increasing reward packages while times were good, and deliver a generous pay off when times were bad. Although the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 96% offer an EAP on a core basis
EXCLUSIVE: Almost all (96%) employer respondents offer an employee assistance programme (EAP) on a core basis in 2017, a higher proportion than the 58% in 2013, and the 78% that did so in 2012, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2017, which ...
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AnalysisThe role of the workplace in employee motivation
Need to know:A poor work environment can have a detrimental impact on employee motivation, performance, and wellbeing.Providing a variety of workspaces can encourage new ways of working and enable staff to work in an environment that best suits them and the task at hand.Organisations should consider areas that can contribute ...
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Case StudiesEKM designs workplace to support staff happiness, motivation and performance
In late June 2017, e-commerce organisation EKM opened its new £3.5 million head office in Preston, Lancashire. The principal reason for the new headquarters was to bring together the organisation’s 85 employees, who had previously been based in two separate Lancashire-based offices. However, EKM designed its new work environment with ...
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ArticleAdidas and Nomura named Britain’s Healthiest Workplaces for 2017
Adidas, Forster Communications, and Nomura International have been named Britain’s Healthiest Workplaces for 2017.The winners were chosen from 167 employers participating in the UK employee health and wellbeing survey, Britain’s Healthiest Workplace, developed by VitalityHealth in partnership with Mercer, Rand Europe, and the University of Cambridge. More than 32,000 employees ...
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ArticleRobot conducts Andrea Bocelli
Something for the weekend: Much has been said about the impact of robotics and automation on the workplace, and how this may shape, create or displace job roles and ways of working. This discussion has generally not tended to focus on the creative and arts industries, yet technology organisation ABB ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories this week: 7-13 September 2017
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 7 and 13 September 2017 were: British Airways to consult on closure of pension scheme to future accrualFamily offers £100,000 and Michelin-star meals for live-in nannyAcas reports a 7.1% mean gender pay gapSecond Finance Bill to legislate for pensions advice exemption ...
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ArticleFujitsu reports a 16.7% mean gender pay gap
Technology organisation Fujitsu has reported a mean gender pay gap of 16.7% as at 5 April 2017.The organisation has reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations and ahead of the submission deadline of 4 April 2018.The regulations require employers with 250 ...
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ArticlePoll: 63% do not currently support staff sleep habits
Employee Benefits poll: Almost two-thirds (63%) of respondents do not currently support employees’ sleep habits.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 38 responses, also found that 53% of respondents do not provide sleep hygiene support and have no plans to do so in the future. A further 11% do ...
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OpinionJulie Hodgskin: Payroll and the General Data Protection Regulation
Part of the process of preparing for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be to perform a payroll information data cleanse. This needs to be planned and methodically carried out by 25 May 2018.The Information Commissioner’s Office has given us a tool to use in the form of ...
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ArticleDavid Hughes: What impact will CEO-to-employee pay ratio legislation have?
The government's tactic of naming and shaming organisations where there is significant shareholder opposition to senior executive remuneration packages raises the possibility of negative publicity for organisations with the largest disparity between executive salaries and workers' pay. It may already have started to take effect, with the average pay of ...
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ArticleCharles Cotton: What impact will CEO-to-employee pay ratio legislation have?
There is no doubt that the continuing polarisation of pay and reward between chief executive officers (CEOs) and employees in the UK has come to a head. According to the latest Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and High Pay Centre research, published in August 2017, for every pound ...
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ArticleStefan Stern: What impact will CEO-to-employee pay ratio legislation have?
In the short term, there will be only a limited impact. We already know that there are some large gaps in pay in many workplaces. It is possible that there will be a few pleasant surprises, particularly as we work our way down the FTSE 250 index and into some ...
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ArticleTake part in exclusive pensions research
What are the main retirement concerns facing your employees? What retirement support does your organisation offer staff? Is your organisation aware of how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) might impact workplace pensions?Tell us how your organisation approaches pension saving and helps staff prepare for retirement by taking part in ...
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OpinionProfessor Sir Cary Cooper: Managing stress and getting a better work-life balance
It was as long ago as 1851 when the social reformer John Ruskin reflected on the potential consequences of the Industrial Revolution: “In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too much of ...