All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 124
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Green benefits rise in popularity
If you read nothing else, read this... Environmental benefits fit into two categories: stand-alone benefits and an alignment with the CSR profile. Green benefits include bikes-for-work schemes, low-emission company cars, telecommuting and online benefits communication. Other strategies include community volunteering, carbon offsetting and ethical pension investment.†Case study: Marriott staff create ...
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Alliance Medical rewards staff who battled snow
Alliance Medical staff who battled in to work in December’s extreme weather conditions were among the first to be recognised under a new reward and recognition scheme.The medical firm revamped its reward and recognition scheme and launched voluntary benefits – provided by Asperity Employee Benefits – as part of efforts ...
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Quintiles launches payroll-giving scheme
Quintiles has launched a payroll-giving scheme to support its chosen charity, Macmillan Cancer Support.The pharmaceutical research firm rolled out the scheme for its 2,000 UK staff before Christmas to take advantage of a Workplace Giving UK promotion that guaranteed an extra £5 for every employee who signed up before the ...
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Aurum Holdings drives sales with staff incentive scheme
Aurum Holdings, whose brands includes Goldsmiths, Mappin and Webb and Watches of Switzerland, launched a staff incentive scheme in the run up to Christmas to drive sales in stores.The incentive programme, designed to engage retail staff, ran from mid August to the end of last year. For each piece of ...
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Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks promote payroll giving to staff and customers
Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks are promoting payroll-giving schemes among their staff and encouraging their customers to donate to charity as well.Workplace Giving is an efficient way for an employee to donate to any charity straight from pay and the only way that a higher rate taxpayer can automatically give an ...
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Grant Thornton staff chose Cancer Research UK as official charity
Grant Thornton staff have chosen Cancer Research UK as the firm’s official charity. The charity was voted in as the chosen beneficiary until summer 2012, with staff pledging to raise £125,000 during the period.Offices across the UK were filled with employees supporting the charity by wearing red and donating to ...
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Jaguar Land Rover employees support environmental issues in Kenya
Jaguar Land Rover employees have participated in an environmental support initiative in Kenya as part of the firm’s employee engagement programme.The scheme saw 11 employees spend two weeks providing support for Earthwatch scientists studying the endangered Grevy’s Zebra.Earthwatch, the environmental charity, surveyed the employees at the end of the programme ...
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Shilling Communication staff support charity in Nepal
Employees from Shilling Communication have returned home from a charity project in Nepal.The staff spent 10 days working with international anti-poverty agency ActionAid building houses for Nepalese people freed from Kamaiya, a traditional system of bonded labour in Southern Nepal.Kevin Shilling, chief executive officer at Shilling Communication, said: “[Corporate] social ...
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Insurance employees raise money for South African village
Employees from insurance providers Rias, Ageas Insurance and Fortis Life have helped to raise more than £50,000 towards building a children’s crËche in the village of Luphisi in South Africa.The ‘Fortissimos’ team took part in the final of the 2010 Times Leadership Challenge, along with teams from Innocent and TK ...
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Groupama Insurance's employees volunteer at primary school
Groupama Insurance's employees have taken part in a national campaign to educate children about healthy eating.As part of Groupama’s Business in the Community pledge, 16 volunteers visited Cardwell Primary School in Woolwich to promote healthy eating among 120 pupils.Throughout the day, Groupama employees and pupils planted a vegetable and herb ...
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V launches volunteering tool for employers
Independent charity, v, has launched a web-based tool to enable employers to offer, implement and measure volunteering opportunities to staff.Key features of its Volunteering Works tool include built-in social marketing for employees to share their experiences, and real-time reporting to enable HR managers to set targets for the volunteering programme ...
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Payroll-giving donations fall
The proportion of employees donating to a payroll-giving scheme has seen a 12% decline, according to a report from Equiniti ICS.The HR and payroll services provider also found there has been a decline in donations of up to 50% since September 2008, coinciding with the recession.Alan Foley, director of Equiniti ...
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Fair care portal offers charity giving option
Fair Care is to add a payroll-giving scheme to its voluntary benefits portal, Benefit Select, early next year once it has been granted HM Revenue and Customs’ approval.Staff will be able to save to a charity bank by making regular or ad-hoc payments to charities of their choice. The payments ...
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Smiths News extends payroll giving scheme
Smiths News is extending its payroll-giving scheme to its 400 Bertram Books employees.The scheme, provided by Workplace Giving UK, is now available to 5,300 staff at the newspaper and magazine wholesaler. Kerrie Colford, community programme manager at Smiths News, said: "We wanted to provide staff with a way to give ...
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The Big Question: What festive rewards are you offering employees this year?
Louise McCabe, head of corporate responsibility at Asos.com:The weeks leading up to Christmas are a critical trading period for Asos, with many departments working atpeak capacity.As we near the holidays, the pressure in head office eases off and we are able to treat and thank our staff with some traditional ...
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Staff should not expect lavish festive workplace celebrations
In this age of austerity employees may be wise not to expect much from festive workplace traditions such as the Christmas party.Research conducted by shopping website VoucherCodes.co.uk found that despite all their hard work, less than half (46%) of employees will be treated to a work Christmas shindig this year.The ...
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Staff engagement linked to growing reward perception gap
Employee engagement levels have slipped back to lower than pre-recession levels due to a growing ‘reward perception gap’.Mercer's Employee Rewards, Benefits and Savings survey, which compiled responses from 79 UK organisations and 1,000 employees, found a striking disconnect between employers and employees on the perception and value of their organisation’s ...
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The Work Foundation research: Align employees' priorities with benefits
A deeper understanding of individual employee's priorities and needs may afford employers a degree of scope to change formal employee benefits arrangements as long as these do not alter the core component of the employment deal.Understanding the Deal, the fourth report in the Future of HR series by The Work ...
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Tesco gives staff Christmas perks worth £55 million
Tesco is giving its 280,000 UK staff Christmas benefits worth £55 million as a thank you.Each employee will receive up to £20 in vouchers as well as a booklet containing exclusive money-off vouchers worth a further £120.The retailer is also giving an additional day’s holiday to all employees which represents ...
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Siemens rewards employees with one-off special payment
Siemens intends to award its employees for their performance during the financial and economic crisis with a one-off special payment.A total of €310 million (£267 million) will be paid out to the company’s worldwide workforce.Peter Loscher, president and chief executive officer at Siemens, said: “The company came through the crisis ...