News – Page 31
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 96% of employers offer employee assistance programmes as a core benefit
EXCLUSIVE: Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are offered as a core benefit by 96% of employers, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield healthcare research 2018 report, which surveyed 162 respondents in July, also found that other popular support and counselling services offered on an employer-funded ...
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ArticleAramark launches campaign encouraging staff to take 15-minute stress-free breaks
Food services organisation Aramark Northern Europe has launched a month-long mental wellbeing campaign encouraging employers and employees to take 15-minute breaks during their working day.Aramark's 'Take15' campaign, which will run through October 2018, is aimed at the organisation's 18,000 employees in northern Europe, as well as clients and customers. The ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: JLT Group launches holistic wellbeing programme for UK employees
EXCLUSIVE: Benefits provider JLT Group has launched a wellness programme focusing on the mental, physical and financial wellbeing of its 3,900 employees in the UK.The programme includes the implementation of mental health first aiders across all 19 offices nationwide, accompanied by mental health and stress awareness training for line managers.The ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Employers need to improve employee experience around digital transformation
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Employers need to improve the employee experience around the constantly evolving digital transformation, to help mitigate career disruption for employees and avoid potential skills shortages.In a session titled ‘Transformational change and the impact of digital on employee experience’, Martin Kirke, group HR director at the Post ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Stephens Scown charts successful employee engagement journey
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Law firm Stephens Scown has implemented an employee engagement strategy that has seen it ranked for the last four years in the Sunday Times Best 100 companies to work for.In a session titled ‘Engaging multi-generational workplaces’, Lucy Palmer, director of HR at Stephens Scown, described the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Building an inclusive culture must start from the top
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Building a diverse and inclusive culture requires full understanding and buy-in from the organisation’s leadership.In a session titled ‘What does an inclusive workplace look like?’ Catherine Garrod, head of inclusion at Sky, Emma Codd, managing partner for talent at Deloitte, Philip Wilson, head of assessment and ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: eBay's Hooper-Campbell says employers must break convention to celebrate diversity
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Employers must stop looking for a quick solution, and instead work on breaking conventions to truly celebrate and promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace.In the opening keynote address on day two of Employee Benefits Live, entitled ‘Breaking with convention’, Damien Hooper-Campbell, vice president and the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Mundipharma offers choice and convenience with new flexible benefits strategy
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Pharmaceutical organisation Mundipharma’s overhauled flexible benefits package offers wider choice to employees.In a session entitled ‘Building a flexible benefits strategy for the future’, which took place as part of the benefits strategy stream at Employee Benefits Live on Tuesday 2 October, Amy Goodwin, head of reward ...
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ArticleKavitha's keynote: Mental health matters when it comes to wellbeing
On day one of this year’s Employee Benefits Live, which took place on 2 and 3 October at ExCeL London, Google’s Cayla Kitayama delivered the opening keynote address which explored how to put health and wellbeing at the heart of an organisation’s benefits strategy.Kitayama, who is responsible for the technology ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Behavioural science around power is key to preventing sexual harassment
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Understanding behavioural science around power and authority is key to preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.In a session titled ‘#MeToo – from a moment to a movement', Andrew Armes, UK head of talent acquisition at Roche, and Elizabeth Prochaska, legal director at the Equality and Human ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Rolls-Royce's Roomes says focus on performance to make business case for wellbeing
Employee Benefits Live 2018: To make the business case for wellbeing to the board of an organisation, HR leaders should focus on performance.In a session titled ‘Bringing health and wellbeing into the boardroom, the business case’, as part of the diversity and inclusion stream on 3 October, David Roomes, group ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: DWP calls for HR professionals to act as workplace pensions advocates
Employee Benefits Live 2018: HR professionals and employers can help the Department for Work and Pensions communicate the benefits of saving into a workplace pension.In a session titled ‘Auto-enrolment – what can HR learn from the DWP’s national multichannel campaign’, Mary Hennessey, head of marketing and communications at the DWP, ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Unilever chatbot to transform HR services in 106 countries
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Unilever has reimagined HR services using artificial intelligence (AI), with a chatbot to go live in 106 countries.In the closing keynote session on day one (Tuesday 2 October 2018), titled ‘Reimagining the employee experience: adventures in artificial intelligence’, Keith Williams (pictured), reimagine HR services director at ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: RBS’ Cowan says changing workplace requires individual pensions approach
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Changes to the workforce mean the days of a one-size-fits-all approach to lifetime savings are over.In a session titled ‘Lifetime savings for a changing workplace culture and demographic’, Jim Cowan, head of benefits at RBS Group, told delegates that personalisation is the key to the future ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Diageo aligns internal and external branding to boost its EVP
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Multi-national beverage organisation Diageo focuses on aligning its internal and external branding, to help ensure that its image as an employer is linked directly with the factors that make it successful as a business.In a leadership panel at Employee Benefits Live 2018, Else Russell, global talent ...
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ArticleNearly a third of employees say they are not motivated at work
The proportion of people saying they are not motivated at work rose to 29% in 2017, from 18% the previous year, according to a study by reward and recognition consultant Motivates.The April 2018 survey of 2,000 UK employees for the report Living to work asked respondents to reveal the causes ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Live 2018 set to welcome delegates to ExCeL London
Employee Benefits Live 2018, the largest dedicated reward and benefits event in Europe, is set to welcome delegates to ExCeL London for its 20th anniversary this week.The event, held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 October 2018, will allow HR, reward and benefits professionals to explore the latest industry innovations ...
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ArticleA third of younger applicants worried to ask about employers' flexible working policies
Nearly a third (30%) of 18 to 34-year-olds would be worried to ask about flexible working policies during a job interview, according to a survey commissioned by Direct Line Group.Almost a quarter (23%) of all 2,003 respondents to the Opinium research, carried out between 7 and 11 September 2018, expressed ...
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ArticleA fifth believe the pensions dashboard would most encourage them to save for retirement
A fifth (21%) of respondents believe that the pensions dashboard is the online technology that would most encourage retirement saving, according to research by pensions consultants Lane Clark and Peacock (LCP) and YouGov.Its survey of 2,008 UK adults also found that 57% of overall respondents would not trust retirement planning ...
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ArticlePizza taste testers to get a slice of the action
Something for the weekend: Everyone has their own idea of the best job in the world, but this one will take some topping. Pizza oven organisation Ooni is looking for taste testers, who will eat "pizza, pizza and more pizza" and get paid for the privilege.Ooni claims to produce ovens ...