All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 122
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Asperity staff scale Tower 42 for charity Shelter
Asperity employees took part in Shelter’s Vertical Rush challenge, running up 920 steps to the summit of London's Tower 42.Six members of Asperity’s client services team joined the fundraising event on 3 March to run up 42 floors to the champagne bar at the top of the tower.The annual Vertical ...
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BT and Pearson among employers marking Climate Week with tree planting
Employers, including BT, Pearson, and Marks and Spencer, have planted over 10,000 trees at Heartwood Forest to mark Climate Week.A dozen employers and over 300 staff took part in the tree planting at the Woodland Trust site in Hertfordshire to directly contribute to the development on what will become the ...
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WSPA moves payroll giving scheme online
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has moved its payroll giving scheme online.The WSPA has offered a payroll giving scheme in place for many years, enabling workplaces across the UK and its own 100 staff, to donate through their salaries. Now, the scheme can be accessed via ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Salary sacrifice buoys Severn Trent Water staff
Severn Trent Water introduced its SmartWater benefit in January 2010, which enables employees to pay their water bill through a salary sacrifice arrangement.The company bills about 3.5 million customers throughout the Midlands, a number of whom are its own employees. In the first year of SmartWater, 1,500 of the firm's ...
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Case study: Tasty bonus for McDonald’s employees
McDonald’s gives its 85,000 UK staff an employee discount card as soon as they begin work with the chain.The card offers staff five standard discounts, including a medium extra value meal for £2.99, a breakfast extra value meal for £1.99, or a toasted deli sandwich meal for £2.99. There is ...
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Case study: Employee savings check out at Asda
Asda offers its staff a 10% discount card after three months service. The card can be used in any Asda store in the UK and in any global Walmart, Asda's parent company. Using the card, Asda's 175,000 staff save over £60 million a year.When Asda launched an online voluntary benefits ...
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Police chiefs help Swat-team officers find love
Finding love and juggling work is hard enough at the best of times, especially for Swat-team officers, who are more likely to come across dangerous criminals than potential love interests in the line of duty.However, police bosses in China have come to the rescue by setting up a matchmaking service. ...
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Computacenter employee races to North Pole for charity
Computacenter employee Rob MacAlister has started a race to the North Pole as part of the IT services firm’s commitment to fundraising and employee engagement through sabbaticals that offer a life changing experience.Computacenter gave MacAlister six weeks off work to take part in the race to raise money for MacMillan ...
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Goodman Masson re-launches payroll giving scheme
Goodman Masson re-launched its payroll giving scheme at the end of February.The scheme, which is open to the recruiting firm’s 120 employees, had been in place for five years but only two staff had enrolled due to lack of awareness.Keiley Shipperley, executive assistant at Goodman Masson, said: “We have had ...
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Domestic and General staff raise money for Comic Relief
Employees at Domestic and General raised £967 for Comic Relief in addition to taking over £100,000 in donation pledges through phone calls.Funds were raised through a quiz, a dress down day and a larger-than-life Scalextric challenge.In addition, over 150 volunteers took donation pledges on Friday 18 March from 7pm until ...
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SVM adds TK Maxx to gift card range
SVM has added fashion retailer TK Maxx to its range of gift cards. The gift card will be part of SVM’s reward scheme Preference, where employees can choose the gift card they want rather than the employer making the choice.The card can be loaded with any denomination between £5 and ...
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Omega team climbs Kilimanjaro for charity
A team from recruitment firm Omega Resource Group has raised over £4,000 for the Help for Heroes charity by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.Directors James Strickland, Ray Pugh and manager Ashley Moore began their trek up the 5,896 metre mountain on 11 February and reached the summit on 17 February.James Strickland, group ...
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Thought leaders: Academic insights: Show staff trust and they will respond
Key points The amount of choice employees can exercise at work has declined in the past 25 years. Commitment and motivation is a two-way street between employers and their workforce. Discretion and trust are key components for creating enjoyable jobs and motivating staff.†A little more autonomy can boost employee motivation, ...
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Tradeteam staff raise over £30,000 for charities
Employees across Tradeteam’s 29 UK sites have spent the past 12 months hiking, biking, baking and running to raise money for charity, raising over £30,000 in 2010.The drinks distributor has aligned its fundraising and community activities with its corporate social responsibility (CSR). These are supported by parent company DHL’s ‘Match ...
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Wilkins Kennedy research: Staff participating in payroll giving falls
The number of employees who give money to charity through payroll has fallen by 30,000, according to research from accountancy firm Wilkins Kennedy.In the past 12 months, the number of employees taking part in payroll giving fell from 754,000 to 724,000. This has previously peaked in 2007/08 with 758,000 members.Although ...
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CIPP research: Payroll giving popular among pay professionals
Payroll giving is popular among payroll professionals, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP).The CIPP Payroll Giving Schemes survey found that nearly three-quarters (73%) of payroll professionals operated payroll giving within their organisations.Of those that do not run a scheme, 18% said they are considering implementing ...
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PWC research: Employers to use more non-financial rewards to motivate staff
Organisations in the UK will use more non-financial rewards to motivate staff, according to a PwC’s 14th PwC Global CEO survey.The survey is based on 1,200 interviews conducted from September to November 2010 with CEOs in 69 countries.†The UK data is based on 71 interviews conducted with UK-based CEOs.While 58% ...
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Virgin Experience Days launch a mobile version of website
Virgin Experience Days has launched a mobile version of its website which employers can offer to staff through their motivation and incentive schemes.The site also links to global positioning system (GPS) technology enabling users to check the distance from their location to experiences and activities they are interested in.Chris Smith, ...
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Harrods Corporate Service launches incentive gift card
Harrods Corporate Service has launched an incentive gift card, which can be used to reward employees or can be incorporated into a benefits package.With a minimum of £2,500 on the card, an employee or group of employees could host a private party for up to 16 guests at the newly ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Sodexo motivates staff with thank-you points
Sodexo Remote Sites Scotland operates a points-based recognition scheme for its 1,000 UK staff. This includes longservice awards, thankyou cards, an award for great ideas, and a site of the month.Line managers and peers can send postcards thanking someone for going the extra mile. It is part of an instant ...