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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Frontier Agriculture to discuss employer branding at Employee Benefits Live 2016
Frontier Agriculture will discuss the role of HR in reinforcing an organisation’s values and employer brand at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Jon Berry (pictured), head of human resources at Frontier Agriculture, will speak alongside Tim Kensey, HR director at Birds Eye Iglo Group, and Rebecca Seymour, head of HR at Peugeot ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Lawn Tennis Association to deliver keynote address at Employee Benefits Live
The Lawn Tennis Association will present the closing keynote address on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2016, highlighting how people and performance strategy can help an organisation to achieve its goals.Vicky Williams (pictured), director of people at the Lawn Tennis Association, will discuss the importance of having an ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Glassdoor to open Employee Benefits Live 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Diarmuid Russell, head of international at Glassdoor, will deliver the opening keynote address at Employee Benefits Live 2016, when he will provide insight into how organisations can become known as the ‘best place to work’.Opening the conference on Tuesday 11 October 2016, Russell will discuss the themes and trends ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Samsung to discuss employee engagement at Employee Benefits Live
Joanna Bean, head of reward at Samsung, will discuss benefits communication and employee engagement at Employee Benefits Live 2016.She will deliver a session titled How to improve staff understanding of reward and benefits as part of the employee engagement conference stream on Tuesday 11 October.During the session, Bean will focus ...
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ArticleClassic Motor Cars launches employee ownership trust
Classic Motor Cars (CMC) has launched an employee ownership trust.Peter Neumark, chairman of the Shropshire-based car restoration organisation, transferred his majority shareholding into a new entity, the Classic Motor Cars Employee Shareholder Trust, on 26 August 2016, passing control for the business to a trust set up for its 60 ...
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ArticleDO NOT PUT ON WEBSITE: 9: ppl move: Attley moves to Epson
John Attley is moving to Epson in September 2016, where he will take on an HR specialist role that focuses on employee engagement, retention and recognition for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).Attley joins from the National House Building Council (NHBC), where he held a number of roles, including communications ...
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ArticlePaycare introduces paid volunteering leave
Paycare has given its employees two additional days of paid leave so that they can undertake charity and volunteering work.The Wolverhampton-based health cash plan organisation launched the initiative in June to enable staff to support worthwhile causes of their choice.A number of employees, including senior management, have taken up the ...
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ArticleChiswick Park holds Olympics-themed event for employees
Chiswick Park Enjoy-Work hosted an Olympics-themed ‘Winner Takes It All’ event on Friday 5 August 2016 as part of its summer activity programme.The event was open to employees from the 45 organisations on site, which include Ericsson, Halliburton, Swarovski, and the Walt Disney Company.The lunchtime event, which ran between 12pm ...
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ArticleHow to motivate Whitehall's feline employees
Something for the weekend: UK government officials are adding chin rubs, belly strokes, and plenty of cuddles to their employee motivation and reward strategies as they welcome new hire Gladstone, the latest cat to join Whitehall's mouse-catching team.Based at the Treasury, the one-year-old, short-haired black cat has been named after ...
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ArticleRoyal College of Nursing celebrates centenary with year-long staff activity programme
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is running a year-long programme of engagement activities for its staff to mark its 100th birthday, including a reward scheme, walks and runs, and a number of charity initiatives.In recognition of the role employees have played over its 100-year history, the RCN introduced a ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Benefex and EY partner on employee engagement
EXCLUSIVE: Professional services organisation EY has partnered with employee benefits provider Benefex to offer employee engagement solutions.The organisations will work together to provide employee benefits and engagement technology alongside consulting services with the aim of enhancing people performance, staff engagement, and talent attraction and retention.The collaboration will see EY deliver ...
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ArticlePartick Thistle Football Club recruits for ‘best job in the world’
Something for the weekend: Scouring online sites for a dream job could be at an end, as Partick Thistle Football Club advertises for what it describes as the best job in the world: taking on the role of club mascot Kingsley, a large yellow thistle.Looking for a candidate who is ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 69% use annual employee surveys to measure engagement
EXCLUSIVE: More than two-thirds (69%) of employer respondents who measure employee engagement use annual employee surveys to do so, according to research by Employee Benefits and Xerox HR Services.The Benefits research 2016, which surveyed a total of 338 employer respondents, also found that 21% use pulse-style surveys to measure staff ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 47% cite budget as barrier to improving employee engagement
EXCLUSIVE: Almost half (47%) of employer respondents cite budget as a barrier to improving employee engagement, according to research by Employee Benefits and Xerox HR Services.The Benefits research 2016, which surveyed a total of 338 employer respondents, also found that 44% point to the lack of time and resources as ...
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Article92% feel job security is important
The majority (92%) of respondents believe that job security is important, although only 65% of employees feel that their current job offers them this, according to research by NatCen.The British social attitudes survey, which interviewed 4,328 British adults, also found that 71% of respondents felt they had a ‘good’ job, ...
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Article44% of employees are happy with their benefits package
Less than half (44%) of employees are happy with the benefits they receive, a drop from 53% last year, according to research by Willis PMI Group.The survey, which polled 1,197 UK-based full- or part-time employees aged between 18 and 64 on their perceptions of benefits and wellbeing schemes, also showed ...
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ArticleBNP Paribas supports staff in Nine Peaks Challenge
Employees at BNP Paribas Real Estate will take on the Nine Peaks Challenge in September to help raise £30,000 for the organisation’s charity partner, the Alzheimer’s Society.The team of 20 employees from across the business will scale the three highest peaks in England, Wales and Scotland in less than 72 ...
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Article85% of students expect an annual pay rise when they start work
More than four fifths (85%) of students expect an annual pay rise when they join a workforce, according to research by mobile app Debut.The Expectations of Work report, which surveyed 12,000 students in May 2016, also showed that 80% of respondents believe it is now harder to get a job ...
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Article43% believe dogs in the workplace increase employee productivity
Something for the weekend: Just under half (43%) of US respondents believe that bringing their dogs to work with them makes employees more productive, according to research by social interaction app Skout.Its survey of 2,244 Skout app users in the US, also found that 63% of respondents feel that dogs ...
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ArticleVanarama gives staff paid leave to cast EU referendum vote
Vanarama will give its employees one hour of paid time off tomorrow (23 June 2016) to ensure that they have the opportunity to vote in the EU referendum.The leave will apply to the 125 employees at the van leasing organisation's head office location.The policy aims to motivate staff to take ...