All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 122
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Flight attendants given lessons in martial arts
Self-defence lessons are not an obvious employee benefit but for flight attendants wanting to fend off the wandering hands of drunken passengers they make perfect sense. Chinese attendants are being given classes in the martial art Wing Chun, which will enable them to knock their aggressor out cold within seconds.Flight ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Volvo staff incentives drive sales
When Volvo Car UK wanted to boost sales of its SE Lux and executive level vehicles last year, it launched a motivation programme for sales staff that had a personalised focus for individuals. This enabled managers to discuss an individual’s performance and match it with a variety of incentives.Volvo’s Hub ...
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BNY Mellon staff volunteer for charity
Employees at BNY Mellon have volunteered on two horticultural schemes to support disabled people across Greater Manchester.During the winter, five employees from the global asset management and securities services firm helped install a raised bed for growing vegetables and lay the foundations for concrete paths at an allotment site in ...
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US employees pull sickies to avoid commute to work
Thoughts of sweating on a packed train or sitting on a bus crawling through traffic are never completely pacified by the over-priced and over-complicated coffee that you will buy as a reward before you reach the office.Research commissioned by The Workforce Institute certainly builds the case for flexible working, after ...
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Domestic and General launches cycling challenge for staff
Domestic and General has launched a cycling challenge for staff as part of its Wellness Wednesday initiative.Employees at the Nottingham call centre took part in the ‘Get on your bike to win a bike’ challenge for a chance to win a new mountain bike. Staff who cycled for at least ...
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Tourism Queensland launches incentive travel competition for all employers
Tourism Queensland has launched a competition called the Million Dollar Memo which offers organisations in any country the chance to win one million dollars (AUD) of corporate incentive travel to Queensland, Australia.The aim of the competition is to boost organisation morale and encourage teamwork. The reward can be tailored for ...
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Playboy bunnies get unusual perk
When Playboy’s new London club opens later this year, its bunnies will have access to an unusual perk: an employee whose sole job it is to help them adhere to its 'strict' dress code.The club will be employing a bunny mother to fluff tails, make sure bunny costumes are pressed, ...
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iGlobalFitness to donate portion of Stay Active Challenge entry fee to charity
iGlobalFitness will donate a proportion of the entry fee to ActionAid for every employee who signs up to its Stay Active Challenge.The challenge is an employee wellness competition that provides personal activity coaching for all participants while measuring health improvements of employees.For £50 each, employees sign up in teams of ...
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Computershare Voucher Services and staff to support charity Honeypot
Computershare Voucher Services (CVS) has pledged its support to Honeypot, a charity that offers a lifeline to young carers and vulnerable children.CVS and its employees will undertake a series of activities over the coming year, including fundraising and volunteering projects to help maintain the charity’s premises and gardens.The organsiation is ...
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Most employers are not celebrating the royal wedding
While many shops are decked out with royal wedding memorabilia (ranging from tea bags to jelly-bean portraits of Kate and Wills) most British workplaces are not providing staff with so much as a Middleton-mouse mat.Research by Maris Interiors reveals that more than 98% of employers are not doing anything to ...
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Grass Roots raises over £4,000 for charity
Grass Roots’ employees have raised over £4,000 in one month for its new corporate charity, Kidscape.The partnership between Grass Roots and Kidscape began in March 2011 with a balloon release from each of Grass Roots’ three sites, and an apprentice-style challenge that saw teams of staff competing to raise the ...
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Red Letter Days launches new website
Red Letter Days has launched a new business-to-business (B2B) website.It precipitates the third quarter launch of a new business-facing product, the latest addition to the organisation’s existing range of experiences, events and gifts. The new website has been designed to highlight and meet the HR objectives within an organisation including ...
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Aegon UK staff raise £75,000 for local charities
Staff at life and pensions organisation Aegon UK have donated £75,000 to three local charities: Maggie’s, Simpson’s Memory Box Appeal and St John’s Hospital Oncology Unit.The money was raised by Aegon UK’s employees through regular fundraising events such as dress down days, quizzes and raffles.The raised funds will be divided ...
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Naked staff wanted by web firm
An obvious employee benefit for naturists would be allowing them to come to work in the buff.Website firm Nude House has done just that and is currently looking for naturists to apply for £24,000-a-year roles as web coders and sales executives.Positions for female web coders to work in a mixed ...
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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: 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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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: 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 ...