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ArticleFitFlop, Skyscanner and Xiros shortlisted for Best healthcare and wellbeing benefits
FitFlop (pictured), Skyscanner, Trowers and Hamlins and Xiros are among the organisations that have been shortlisted in the Best healthcare and wellbeing benefits, small employer category at the Employee Benefits Awards 2018.This award, sponsored by Simplyhealth, recognises the most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategies that have been implemented by organisations ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: YellowDog sees 20% take-up of employer-paid cycling scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Software organisation YellowDog has seen 20% of its 22 Bristol-based employees take-up its employer-paid cycling scheme since it was introduced in December 2017.The scheme, provided by free2cycle, was implemented in order to help employees have a more environmentally friendly commute, as well as to help attract, engage and retain ...
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ArticleAnglian Water and Three UK shortlisted for best healthcare and wellbeing benefits
Anglian Water (pictured), Three UK, Live Nation Entertainment and Universal Music Group are among the organisations that have been shortlisted in the best healthcare and wellbeing benefits, large employer category at the Employee Benefits Awards 2018.This award celebrates the most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategies that have been implemented by ...
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Article86% believe employers do not do enough to support mental wellbeing
More than four-fifths (86%) of respondents do not feel employees are doing enough to support employees with work-related stress, anxiety and other mental health issues, according to research by Westfield Health.Its research, which surveyed 2,025 UK employees, also found that more than three-quarters (79%) of respondents think their employer could ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: FinTrU hosts health and wellbeing month to promote new benefits
EXCLUSIVE: Financial services outsourcing organisation FinTrU has held a health and wellbeing month in order to promote its new employee benefits package to its 234 Belfast-based staff.The health and wellbeing month, called Febulous Challenge, was held in February 2018 to help promote the group risk and health and wellbeing benefits ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 22% blame high employee absence rates on lack of health and wellbeing initiatives
EXCLUSIVE: More than one-fifth (22%) of employer respondents believe that their employee absence rates are higher than other organisations because they do not have health and wellbeing initiatives in place, according to research by Group Risk Development (Grid).Its survey of 500 UK employers, including 100 employers with more than 250 ...
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ArticleHigher earners most likely to experience work-related stress
Just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents earning more than £40,000 per annum experience work-related stress, making this the most likely earnings group to do so, according to research by Perkbox.Its 2018 UK workplace stress survey, which surveyed over 3,000 British workers over the age of 18, also found that long ...
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ArticleMake Collective offers bonuses to employees who cycle to work
New Zealand-based advertising and creative agency Make Collective offers its six employees a financial year-end bonus if they cycle to and from work.The initiative, which launched in February 2018, awards employees $5 (£2.63) a day if they cycle on their commute. Employees that maintain cycling to and from work for ...
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ArticlePoll: 77% think employers should offer incentives for staff to adopt healthy habits
Employee Benefits poll: More than three-quarters (77%) of respondents think that employers should offer incentives for all employees to adopt healthy behaviours.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 61 responses, also found that 13% of respondents feel that employers should provide incentives for some staff in order to encourage ...
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ArticleBjorn Borg holds compulsory exercise hour for Swedish employees
Something for the weekend: Sports clothing retail organisation Bjorn Borg holds a weekly mandatory exercise hour for 212 Sweden-based employees in order to increase employee productivity.Every Friday between 11am and 12pm, the Stockholm-based office is closed for business as employees attend a nearby gym for a specially arranged exercise class ...
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ArticleHerbert Smith Freehills launches gender affirmation surgery benefit for UK staff
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has launched a medical benefit for UK-based transgender employees, enabling them to access gender affirmation surgery and psychological support as part of their benefits package.The new medical benefit, which launched on 1 January 2018 for 1,651 UK staff, will cover all or part of ...
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ArticleAllianz Worldwide Partners UK holds wellbeing week for 500 staff
Insurance and technology organisation Allianz Worldwide Partners UK has hosted a wellbeing week for its 500 employees.The Work Well Week, which ran from 5 February 2018, was designed to promote both mental and physical wellbeing, advocating an all-round healthy lifestyle for employees in and out of the workplace.Activities during the ...
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ArticleLearn how a healthy workforce impacts business at Employee Benefits Connect 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Delegates at Employee Benefits Connects 2018 will be able to learn how to quantify the business case for an employee health and wellbeing strategy, as well as gain insight into how a healthy workforce can impact organisational goals and success.Greg Levine (pictured), director, sales and distribution at Vitality Health ...
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Article33% believe employers should pay employees for keeping healthy
A third (33%) of UK respondents believe their employers should pay them for keeping healthy, according to research by Willis Towers Watson.Its 2017-2018 Global benefits attitudes survey, which surveyed 31,000 employees across 22 markets, including 2,824 employees working for medium and large-sized private sector organisations in the UK, also found ...
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ArticleGreene King hosts wellbeing week for staff
Pub retailer and brewing firm Greene King is holding a wellbeing week for employees to encourage healthy habits in its head office and depots in Bury St Edmonds and support centre in Burton.The event, which is taking place this week and was held for the first time last year, is ...
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ArticleRandall S. Peterson: Should employers reward employees for healthy habits?
I believe employers should encourage healthy habits, but it’s very important to be careful about how it is incentivised. Rather than directly monetising healthy living or giving a certain number of extra days’ leave, it’s better to look at it from the perspective of encouraging employees to internalise their own ...
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ArticleNick Court: Should employers reward employees for healthy habits?
We know that the overall wellbeing of employees has a major impact on so many different areas of the employee experience at work, which can impact productivity, motivation, satisfaction and so much more.Employers have implemented all sorts of great benefits schemes to support their employees in having good health, from ...
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ArticleBournemouth University rolls out staff wellbeing and sustainability programme
Bournemouth University is rolling out a sustainability and employee wellbeing programme to its 2,000 employees.Its Green Rewards programme, which will launch to all staff in January 2018, is designed to help employees boost their health and wellbeing as well as work to reduce carbon emissions to create a more sustainable ...
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ArticleEmployees lose 30 productive working days a year through sickness and presenteeism
Employees lose an average of 30.4 working days a year due to sickness or underperforming at work because of ill health, according to research by VitalityHealth.Its 2017 Britain’s healthiest workplace report, which surveyed 31,950 employees, found that productive working days lost due to physical and mental health issues cost the ...
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Article29% go in to work when suffering from a mental health condition
More than a fifth (29%) of respondents go in to work when they are suffering from stress, anxiety or depression, according to research by Bupa.Its survey of 2,000 UK employees also found that 26% of respondents attend work when they are ill because they worry about the burden of their ...