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Deloitte staff celebrate diversity in the workplace
Deloitte employees took part in Diwali festivities, as the firm’s month-long diversity celebrations came to a close.An evening of celebrations included a panel debate on how diversity can be beneficial in the workplace.Particpants in the debate included: international cricketer, Ravi Bopara; Deloitte chairman David Cruikshank, the firm’s Hindu network leader, ...
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Reckitt Benckiser incentivises staff to cycle to work
Reckitt Benckiser has rolled out a discount and reward programme around cycling, which offers employees extra perks to commute to work by bike.The scheme was launched with PleaseCycle on 1 November. The consumer goods company has already logged mileage equivalent to cycling three lengths of Britain, saving four London-Paris flights ...
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Allen & Overy employees stage opera at Sadler’s Wells
Allen & Overy staff have staged a production of Bizet’s Carmen at Sadler’s Wells in London to an audience of 1,200.The event raised over £15,000 for the British Red Cross and three East London primary schools: Christ Church, Sir John Cass and Stepney Greencoat.More than 100 members of staff and ...
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Christmas party organised for one-man bands
Raucous and fun Christmas parties certainly subscribe to the theory the ‘more the merrier’.After all, it can't be much fun for a one-man start-up sitting alone in a pub with no one to pull a cracker with except the bartender.However, help is at hand for small firms and one-man bands ...
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Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts rewards staff with trip to Switzerland
Mˆvenpick Hotels and Resorts has flown a group of employees to Switzerland for an all-expenses-paid four-day trip.The international firm rewards high-performing employees from Asia, Africa and the Middle East with a trip every year to recognise their contribution to the business.During the trip, the group of 45 employees visited the ...
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Simplyhealth and Samaritans partner for fundraising day
Healthcare provider Simplyhealth has partnered with charity Samaritans for a fundraising day, Feel Good Friday, that is open to all employers.The inaugural event will take place on 3 February 2012 with activities such as wearing slippers into work, hosting a comedy night, and taking part in feel-good challenges.A dedicated website ...
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Deloitte celebrates diversity month with activities for staff
Deloitte is celebrating diversity month by offering a programme of activities and guest speakers to its staff.During the month, all nine of the firm’s diversity networks, including its women’s, Globe (gay, lesbian and bisexual), multicultural, workability and faith networks, will showcase the role they play within the firm.Over 4,000 Deloitte ...
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Cineworld and Filmology partner for launch of digital cinema voucher programme
Cineworld and Filmology have partnered to introduce a digital cinema voucher programme.The programme enables employers to reward, motivate and incentivise staff via email or mobile.Bobbie Andrews, marketing manager at Cineworld, said: “Due to the increasing number of smartphones, digital codes and vouchers are now an inherent part of many people’s ...
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Whitbread wins top prize at payroll giving awards
Whitbread has been awarded the best overall payroll giving campaign at the National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards 2011.The hotel and restaurant organisation, which owns Premier Inn, Beefeater and Costa Coffee, was commended by the judges for a 20% take-up among its 35,000 employees. This was felt to be particularly impressive ...
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Capita Hartshead staff volunteer in the community
Capita Hartshead employees in Sheffield will be volunteering with primary school students in a charity initiative designed to teach young people about business.The initiative, the Southey Rave (Raising aspiration and the value of education), run by Business in the Community (BITC), was first piloted in Leeds, where it was a ...
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DLA Piper research: Employers encourage social media for work activities
Many employers (65%) actively encourage the use of social media for work-related activities, according to research by DLA Piper.The report, Knowing your tweet from your trend: keeping pace with social media in the workplace, addresses the problems that employers face keeping up with social media and the procedures that can ...
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Telemetry challenges staff to abseil down its office building
Employers are constantly thinking up ways to get their staff to achieve new heights. But few are as adventurous as Telemetry, which is challenging its employees to abseil down the side of its skyscraper office building.The online video provider, which occupies the 39th floor of Tower 42 in London, considers ...
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Immedia Group launches radio station for employees
Immedia Group, which provides radio and in-store media for retailers, has launched its first radio station dedicated to its own employees.The station, which will be broadcast at Immedia’s headquarters in Newbury, will play a mixture of music, organisation news and features, as well as providing a pilot for new services ...
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Admiral Group awards two employees with trip to Rugby World Cup semi-finals
Admiral Group has given two of its employees a trip to Auckland to see Wales play France in the semi-final of the Rugby World Cup.The Welsh organisation offered staff the chance to win the trip by getting them to answer the question: How many World Rugby Union/Admiral jerseys will the ...
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Marks and Spencer for Business introduces e-gift card
Marks and Spencer for Business has rolled out an e-gift card for employers to use in reward and recognition programmes.It enables organisations to instantly reward employees via email.The gift card can be used to shop in store, online, via the web or over the phone. It can be redeemed against ...
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Globoforce adds social media and mobile enhancements to employee recognition programme
Globoforce has added new social media and mobile enhancements to its employee recognition programme.The enhancements were designed to give HR professionals more flexibility and control over the nomination and reward redemption process.The enhancements include: A mobile application that features an employer’s continuous social feed to provide visibility into the organisation’s ...
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New book sheds light on bizarre office jargon
Office jargon is not just an affliction suffered by David Brent in The Office television series. It often slips into the average employees' vocabulary.The truth is no-one really knows why phrases like ‘core competencies’, ‘drilling down’ or ‘blue sky thinking’ crop up in the workplace.However, a new book Pushing the ...
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Santander hosts employee run as part of global engagement programme
Santander employees have participated in a 110-mile charity run as part of a global initiative to raise awareness of the bank’s values.Sixty employees from 16 different countries ran from London to the bank’s main office in the East Midlands. The race is part of the ‘Santander is you’ global engagement ...
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Aon Hewitt research: Staff believe employers view engagement surveys as tick-box exercises
The majority of employees across the UK and Europe believe their employers view employee engagement as a tick-box exercise, according to research by Aon Hewitt.Managers: your strongest or weakest link in driving employee engagement? found that only 18% of employees surveyed strongly believe that engagement survey results will be acted ...
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EXCLUSIVE: RWE Npower sets new charity target
RWE Npower is encouraging its staff to pull together to raise an additional £100,000 this year for its nominated charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, which is celebrating its centenary year.In October, the energy firm's 12,000 employees will be given time off to collect money for charity at Tesco and Morrisons stores, ...