All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 45
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Supplier articleMental Health Awareness Week: Focusing on your employees' mental health
This week is 2021’s Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. This is the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health and mental health issues as well as to encourage action to promote the message of good mental health for all, both in the workspace as well as ...
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Supplier articleHow to inspire a creative and innovative workplace remotely
Creative and innovative workplaces are vital within today’s remote working climate. Repetitiveness and a lack of inspiration is an everyday occurrence to those working from home. This can lead to a decrease in motivation, and therefore productivity. Subsequently, employers need to develop new ways to inspire their people and break ...
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Supplier articleHow to motivate a hybrid workforce
By Alexandra Powell, Director of Client Culture and Engagement at Reward GatewayWhat would you say if I told you that employee engagement is not the end game? I know, I know, we’re ‘the employee engagement people,' but stay with me. One thing we know for certain is that every employee ...
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ArticleDarren Skinner appointed Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust interim HRD
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) has appointed Darren Skinner as its interim director of human resources.Skinner, who joins today (10 May), will be with the trust for at least the next nine-12 months. His remit will be to lead its Workforce and Organisational Development Team.He will also ...
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Supplier articleThe psychology behind great communications
The key elements to any successful communication are that it’s relevant, timely, and personal. Putting this into practice, however, is easier said than done. Communications aren’t just about informing, educating, or engaging – they’re about guiding the reader and empowering them to make informed decisions.If you really want to ‘put ...
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Supplier articleReward Gateway Announces Sale to Private Equity Firms Abry Partners and Castik Capital
Earlier this week, Reward Gateway, a global HR technology, and employee engagement company announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Abry Partners and Castik Capital. The acquisition of Reward Gateway validates the company’s strategic vision, expansive growth strategy, and the value its products and services ...
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ArticleImproving morale with Ed Sheeran
Something for the weekend: Forget trying to boost morale and energise your team with virtual group yoga sessions, time out with the digital office dog, online pod walkathons, and by posting snacks and drinks to them in place of the Friday night office get together (although make no mistake, the ...
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ArticleMental health not a priority for 43% of employers
New research has showed a startling mismatch between rising demand for mental health help and this failing to translate into a priority for businesses.According to Koa Health’s Wellbeing at work report, more than half of UK organisations (56%) questioned said they had seen an increase in employee demand for support ...
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Supplier articleThe Digital Watercooler: Keeping comms a constant through hybrid working
Communicating with a diverse and widespread employee base is difficult at the best of times. Add in a global pandemic, and many organisations have found themselves floundering.To mark the end of our ‘Comms Month’, Gethin Nadin is joined by Kathryn Kendall, Chief People Officer at Benefex, to look at how ...
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ArticleUse of flexible hours drops due to pandemic
The use of flexible hours has dramatically dropped since the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic began – mainly because people have been forced to work from home.This is the main conclusion of new research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which found forms of flexible working - such as ...
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Supplier articleDoes working from home provoke toxic workplaces?
For over a year now, most of us have been working from home or in a remote environment. But has this new way of working developed a toxic workplace, and if so, how is it avoided?How working from home can cause a toxic workplace.Monitoring staff Firstly, managers are now unable ...
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ArticleForest Bathing to boost team engagement
Something for the weekend: Let’s face it, working remotely has taken its toll on the togetherness of work teams. Who doesn’t miss those precious moments spent sharing each other’s latest commuting nightmare around the empty water dispenser, taking your turn to do the tea round, listening to a colleague munch ...
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ArticleDechert gives staff extra day off and $1,000 bonus
Global law firm Dechert LLP has announced it is offering every business services member of staff ‘A Day to Thrive’ – an extra day of leave that they can use however they like.This year's Day to Thrive follows its successful introduction in 2020 and links to the company’s THRIVE@Dechert wellbeing ...
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Supplier articleCompanies that give more and take less- Innocent drinks
Innocent Drinks’ was founded by three university graduates in 1999, Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright. The business provides smoothies and juice and is sold in various coffee shops and other outlets around the world.Innocent Drinks’ workplace culture embraces healthy living, an approach that it integrates with its reward ...
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ArticlePoll: 61% of employers do not monitor wellbeing strategies
Employee Benefits poll: As the impact of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic continues to reverberate across the workforce, three in five employers are not monitoring the impact of their wellbeing initiatives on staff productivity, retention, and engagement.According to Employee Benefits’s latest straw poll, 61% of organisations do not measure how their ...
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ArticleAddison Lee loses gig economy 'workers' appeal
In a further victory for gig economy staff not currently deemed ‘workers’, the Court of Appeal has ruled that drivers employed by minicab firm Addison Lee can now be granted ‘worker’ status – with all the national minimum wage and paid holiday entitlement this brings.At a hearing yesterday (22 April), ...
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ArticleRecruits offered £500 to stop looking at Instagram
Something for the weekend: Remember the first Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic lockdown and how we all decided to learn new skills, such as basket weaving, tap dancing, becoming fluent in Mandarin and landscape painting? Not to mention all those health and fitness goals, of course. And then we thought we’d just ...
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Supplier articleHow to ensure high adoption and ROI on employee discounts
One of the biggest barriers to introducing new employee benefits, such as an employee discounts programme, is ensuring employees access or use it to fully experience the advantages so that the investment proves worthwhile to the business.There are two critical factors that support high employee discount adoption – offering a ...
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Supplier articleIs climate change part of your workplace culture?
More and more businesses and industries are committing to reducing their impact on the environment. The upcoming Earth Day reminds us that there are always more ways for companies and employees to adopt environmentally-friendly policies and help tackle climate change.Here are a few different ways you can make your workplace ...
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Supplier articleWebinar: Build for the future by supporting and connecting with 100% of your frontline, WFH and hybrid workforces
How can you set your business and people up for success as we forge ahead in 2021? How can you be sure you are positively impacting every single employee each day? These are questions many HR and business leaders are asking themselves as they prepare to take ...