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    How is Coronavirus impacting health and wellbeing strategies?

    2020-07-10T10:12:06Z

    Has the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic changed the way your business offer healthcare and wellbeing benefits? What is your strategy to reduce workplace absence?Employee Benefits readers now have the opportunity to have their say by participating in the exclusive Employee Benefits Healthcare Research 2020, this survey has been designed to benchmark ...

  • Four Seasons Health Care provides full sick pay for 15,000 care workers
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    Four Seasons Health Care provides full sick pay for 15,000 care workers

    2020-07-08T09:34:24Z

    Four Seasons Health Care (FSHC) will pay 15,000 care workers full pay if they have to self-isolate due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Employees working at any of its 185 facilities, who have been self-isolating or have contracted the virus since April 2020, will also have their pay backdated.Since the beginning ...

  • Fujitsu introduced permanent remote working policy for 80,000 employees
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    Fujitsu introduces permanent remote working policy for 80,000 employees

    2020-07-07T10:06:49Z

    Japanese technology organisation Fujitsu has introduced a permanent remote working initiative for its 80,000 Japan-based employees, effective immediately.The Work Life Shift benefit will allow employees to adjust their working pattern to create a work-life balance that suits their individual needs.By regularly communicating with employees and by using its Workplace Innovation ...

  • 31% of employers don't offer support for staff on long-term sick leave
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    31% of employers do not offer support for staff on long-term sick leave

    2020-07-06T10:30:02Z

    A third of employers (31%) do not make early?interventions to support staff returning to work if they are on long-term sick leave due to ill health, disability or injury, according to research by Group Risk Development.Research carried out among 500 employers, published July 2020, also found that an additional 32% ...

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    Participate in exclusive healthcare benefits research for the chance to win prize draw

    2020-07-02T10:37:27Z

    What effect has the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic had on your organisation’s focus on employee health and wellbeing? How can you track your most successful healthcare and benefits strategies?Readers at Employee Benefits have the chance to participate in the exclusive Employee Benefits Healthcare Research 2020, which has been created to understand ...

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    Melanie Astbury: How have employers supported their staff during the pandemic?

    2020-07-02T05:00:55Z

    The pandemic transformed our entire operation almost instantly. Within a few short days, our in-house team was working entirely from home and our warehouse team was adapting operational output.Our key concerns during this time were to safeguard the livelihoods of our teams; ensure our business remained operational and maintain the ...

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    Jen Faichney: How have employers supported their staff during the pandemic?

    2020-07-02T05:00:17Z

    Covid-19 has thrown all sorts of challenges at HR departments. From the practicalities of helping people adapt to home working, where this is feasible, to distilling government and agency health advice; all at a time when individuals and their families have been facing considerable worries and stresses about the future.For ...

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    Natasha Hill: How have employers supported their staff during the pandemic?

    2020-07-02T05:00:11Z

    The term staff welfare has never meant so much. The last three months have challenged business leaders to think creatively about how to support their teams across a number of different dimensions. At Bottle, we have categorised our support in terms of emotional, mental, practical and, because culture is important ...

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    Take part in exclusive healthcare benefits research for a chance to enter prize draw

    2020-06-25T10:41:15Z

    Has the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic increased your organisation’s focus on employee health and wellbeing? Do you calculate the return on investment for your healthcare benefits spend? What are the most successful healthcare and benefits strategies?Employee Benefits readers can now have their say by participating in the exclusive Employee Benefits Healthcare ...

  • 2SFG to give 560 employees full pay for self-isolation period
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    2 Sisters Food Group gives 560 employees full pay for self-isolation period

    2020-06-23T09:19:13Z

    Food manufacturer 2 Sisters Food Group (2SFG) will give all 560 employees at its Llangefni site full pay for the self-isolation period that has been imposed on them due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.All employees at the site were told to immediately self-isolate for 14 days after 61 employees tested ...

  • Indeed rewards 10,000 with an extra day of paid leave
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    Indeed rewards 10,000 employees with six days of additional leave

    2020-06-19T09:18:05Z

    Indeed is rewarding its 10,000 global employees with an extra day of paid holiday per month until November 2020.The enhanced annual leave benefit will now become a semi-permanent fixture, following on from positive feedback from employees after it held its first 'You Day' in May 2020.Indeed initially gave its staff ...

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    Slack to offer employees permanent remote working policy

    2020-06-15T10:53:49Z

    Business communications platform Slack will introduce a permanent flexible working policy for the majority of its 1,664 employees.The organisation has made the decision to not reopen its offices due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, until at least 1 September 2020, and when the offices do open, if their roles permits, ...

  • 95% of organisations offer some form of mental wellbeing education
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    EXCLUSIVE: 95% of organisations offer some form of mental wellbeing education

    2020-06-15T10:40:50Z

    EXCLUSIVE: The vast majority (95%) of organisations offer some form of mental wellbeing education and support to their employees. This follows the trend we have seen, whereby awareness of, and a desire to support, mental wellbeing has risen up the corporate agenda.The Employee Benefits research 2020, published in May 2020, ...

  • 79% of employees have been affected by mental health due to pay cuts
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    79% of employees say household pay cuts have affected their mental health

    2020-06-10T11:07:46Z

    Of the 61% of employees that have seen a member from their household take a salary reduction, 79% say it has affected their mental wellbeing, according to research by Barnett Waddingham. Its survey of 2,017 full-time and part-time employee also found a further two-fifths (40%) have experienced increased anxiety over ...

  • 87% of businesses offer benefits to support health and wellbeing
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    EXCLUSIVE: 87% of businesses offer benefits to support health and wellbeing

    2020-06-10T09:43:46Z

    EXCLUSIVE: The majority (87%) of employers offer benefits to support the health and wellbeing of employees, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits research 2020, published in May 2020, which surveyed 269 HR decision-makers, found that the number of respondents that offer benefits in support of this goal has ...

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    35% of employees continue to work while sick

    2020-06-05T10:52:42Z

    Just over a third (35%) of employees have continued to work from home while being unwell, according to research by Canada Life.Its research, involving 2,000 working adults, and 500 small-to-medium business (SME) decision-makers, also found that two in five (40%) did not feel their illness was serious enough to take ...

  • Covid-19 has worsened the mental health for 43% of employees
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    65% of employees say work has a negative impact on their mental health

    2020-06-04T10:22:29Z

    Just under two-thirds (65%) of employees say work has a negative impact on their mental health, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).Its survey of 6,000 employees found this was up by 9% from its previous survey in 2018, which found that just over half ...

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    Ian Hodson: Should employers be preparing now for further waves of the Covid-19 virus?

    2020-06-04T05:00:47Z

    At the University of Lincoln, we are certainly preparing all our responses to have longevity as well as meeting the short-term needs.At face value, nothing has changed since we went into lockdown other than controlling the spread through lockdown and social distancing, therefore, we have to believe that as restrictions ...

  • Ilan Kelman: Are employers preparing now for further waves of the Covid-19 virus?
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    Ilan Kelman: Should employers be preparing now for further waves of the Covid-19 virus?

    2020-06-04T05:00:19Z

    Lockdown in the UK for over two months has saved thousands of lives, while imposing a heavy burden on employers and employees. Imagine this situation as an irregular cycle. Who is preparing and can we actually prepare?To avoid repeating the horror of tens of thousands of deaths from Covid-19 (Coronavirus), ...

  • Aegon UK enhances employee wellbeing programme for 2,000 staff
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    Aegon UK enhances employee wellbeing programme for 2,000 staff

    2020-06-02T10:36:34Z

    Aegon UK has enhanced its employee wellbeing programme by launching a series of wellbeing videos to support its 2,000 staff, during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The videos, which form part of the organisation's wellbeing hub, will be hosted by employees and guests vloggers and will feature gardening tips, a cycle repairs ...