News – Page 60
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TinyPulse enhances staff motivation product
TinyPulse has enhanced its recognition product by adding in the ability for employees to recognise colleagues and to make suggestions to their employer.The product, which was launched in September 2012, was developed by entrepreneur David Niu to help employers keep their finger on the pulse of employee happiness.Its employer clients ...
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Man City FC to launch recognition programme
EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City Football Club is to roll out a recognition scheme in October, which will align with a new framework of values it has developed.The three values, which will be known collectively as City Spirit, are Involving, Game-changing and Driving.The football club’s 380 employees will be able to nominate ...
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Duncan Brown: Engagement through reward: impossible or essential?
In the last couple of weeks, I have been talking about the links between performance, reward and values with the NHS Pay Review Body; moves towards more market-driven reward with the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA); and the links between reward and engagement at an Aon Hewitt seminar.Whatever the ...
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Edenred to launch mobile discounts scheme
Edenred is to launch a mobile employee discounts scheme, which will allow users to find discounts on the move via their smartphones and tablets.The new scheme will work through a mobile website, which will allow employees to check for discounts when they are out and about. It features a location-based ...
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Asda awards staff for long service
More than 1,000 Asda employees have been awarded for a combined 47,135 years of service at the supermarket chain’s Big Anniversary event on 16 July.Its annual long-service celebration, which is in its 13th year, recognises staff who have 25, 30, 40 and 45 years of service with the organisation.The long-serving ...
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Employees want to work flexibly
More than 50% of respondents would like the opportunity to work flexibly, according to research by real estate software organisation Planon Software.Its survey, which questioned more than 100 employees, indicated that employers could gain a number of benefits by introducing more flexible-working policies.Tim Clapham, marketing director at Planon, said: “There ...
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Alexander Mann Solutions focuses on work-life balance
Alexander Mann Solutions is creating more opportunities for flexible working, investing in remote-working technology and enhancing its communications with employees.The enhanced benefits are part of the talent management firm’s focus on employee wellbeing and helping its staff to develop healthy, balanced lifestyles.It has invested in Lync software so that employees ...
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Sodexo launches online incentive and reward portal
Sodexo Motivation Solutions has launched an online incentive and reward product.Its Reward Portal Premium allows employers to recognise employees’ work by using a choice-based approach to incentivising and rewarding staff.Employees can collect recognition points for various achievements and then select their reward from an online reward catalogue.Iain McMath (pictured), managing ...
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Payroll giving donations increase by £6m
Donations to charity directly from pay have risen by £6 million to £124 million since 2012, according to figures from HM Revenue and Customs.The figures also show that the number of staff using a payroll-giving scheme has reached a four-year high at 750,000.Meanwhile, average donations have risen by 40p per ...
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British employees happy with work-life balance
Almost two-thirds (59%) of respondents are happy with their work-life balance, according to research by recruitment firm Randstad UK.The Randstad work-life balance survey, which questioned 2,000 employees, found that those in the south-east of England, Yorkshire and the Humber are most happy with their work-life balance, with 64% saying they ...
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Employers should do more around charity work
Just under half (43%) of respondents felt their employer should be doing more to help charities in their local community, according to research by fundraising platform Give as you Live.Its Donor survey, which questioned more than 1,000 UK workers, found that 52% of respondents said their organisation does not have ...
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Merlin Entertainments launches restaurant and cinema discount card
EXCLUSIVE: Merlin Entertainments has launched a restaurant and cinema discount card for its employees.The Gourmet Society card, which provides employees with discounts at more than 6,000 restaurants in the UK and Ireland and gives staff discounted cinema tickets, is open to more than 8,000 Merlin employees across the UK and ...
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University of Reading launches online reward and recognition portal
The University of Reading has introduced an online reward and recognition portal.The organisation’s Celebrating Success scheme, provided by AYMTM, is part of the employer’s commitment set out in its HR Strategy to recognise and reward achievement at the earliest possible opportunity.The system allows managers to nominate employees for awards, which ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2013: Most motivational benefits
Winner: McDonald’s Restaurants - Olympic Champion CrewThe judges were looking for a motivation strategy that successfully used incentives or motivational rewards to help drive employee performance, engagement or retention.McDonald’s Restaurants built on its long association with the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as an existing ‘employee of the month’ ...
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Employers reward staff for green behaviour
Copper Consultancy and Richmond Towers Communications are the first employers to launch a new employee engagement and reward programme, which is designed to help organisations embed a culture of sustainability and healthy living.The programme, Jump: Healthy Planet – Healthy Team, rewards employees for taking positive steps that both improve the ...
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East Coast Mainline revamps voluntary perks
EXCLUSIVE: East Coast Mainline has added a bikes-for-work scheme to its online voluntary benefits scheme, run health and wellbeing roadshows, and extended its recognition scheme.The bike scheme, which was introduced in May and is provided by Halfords, had 40 employees take it up within its first month.The health and wellbeing ...
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Network Rail introduces private shopping club for staff
Network Rail has launched a private shopping club for employees.The online club, Aspire, gives the railway’s 35,000 employees access to a weekly online sale of well-known brands with discounts of up to 70% off retail prices.The voluntary benefits was introduced after Network Rail renewed its contract with reward and incentives ...
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Pay and benefits cause most dissatisfaction
Pay and benefits are the cause of most dissatisfaction among respondents, with nearly half considering a change of jobs because they are dissatisfied with their current pay and benefits package, according to research by Edenred UK.The Edenred barometer, conducted by Ipsos among 7,200 European employees, including 800 UK workers, found ...
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All-employee recognition data most valued
Almost three-quarters (74%) of respondents said that ‘crowdsourcing’ recognition data provides the most accurate picture of employee performance, according to research by Globoforce.The Spring 2013 Society for Human Resource Management/Globoforce Employee recognition survey, which polled 800 HR professionals, defines ‘crowdsourcing’ as the collection of feedback from all employees within an ...
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ArticleMost government departments have low payroll-giving take up
Eight out of 15 government departments have less than a 6% take up if in payroll giving among staff, according to research by the Geared for Giving Campaign.The findings, which were obtained via Freedom of Information requests, found that the highest level of payroll giving can be seen in the ...