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ArticleEmployers focus on improving staff engagement
The Benefits Research 2014, which was conducted in March 2014 among 256 respondents, found this was the case for just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents.Engagement has topped the list of issues shaping respondents’ benefits strategies since 2011, when 71% of respondents said this was the case, followed by 73% in ...
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ArticleGlobal employee engagement continues to rise
Global employee engagement levels increased to 61% in 2013, up from 60% in 2012 and 58% in 2011, according to research by Aon Hewitt.Its 2014 Trends in global employee engagement report, which represents the perspectives of seven million employees across more than 6,000 organisations in 155 countries, found the regions ...
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ArticleAllianz wellbeing programme reduces absence levels
EXCLUSIVE: Allianz Worldwide Care has reduced its staff absence levels from 1.71% in 2012 to 1.46% with the help of its new health and wellbeing programme.The programme, which was launched in January 2013 to maintain the high level of engagement across the business, covers five main categories: exercise and fitness, ...
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ArticleDanone and East Coast shortlisted for engaging benefits
Danone and East Coast Mainline are among the employers that have been shortlisted for the award ‘Most engaging benefits package’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2014.This award recognises employers that have used benefits within their wider strategy to engage employees within the organisation.The full category shortlist is:Danone (entered by Thomsons ...
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ArticleStaff engagement is main objective for flex
Schemes appear to be meeting this aim, with the proportion of respondents reporting that their plan has successfully improved staff engagement rising steadily over the past few years.A further fifth (21%) of respondents cited improving staff recruitment and retention as their scheme’s main objective.Unsurprisingly, employee engagement is the most popular ...
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ArticleDuncan Brown: Reward communications: are you listening?
Reward communication is hard: trying to get some highly technical, mathematical and financial information across to busy employees that show little general interest most of the time. Until things go wrong. And things do seem to be going wrong at the moment.We are just getting ready to publish two of ...
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ArticleSainsbury’s staff raise money for Sport Relief
Sainsbury’s employees have helped to raise £6.5 million for charity Sport Relief, £1 million higher than that given by the supermarket chain in 2012.Sainsbury’s offered employees the opportunity to take part in a range of fundraising activities in the weeks leading up to Friday 21 March, when the first-ever Sainsbury’s ...
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ArticleEngagement biggest HR challenge
More than half (54%) of respondents said improving employee engagement is their biggest challenge in 2014, according to research by Secondsight.Its HR challenges survey found that only 17% of respondents cited developing a reward and benefits package as the main challenge.More than a third (39%) of respondents cited implementing legislative ...
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ArticleWorkplaces must evolve to tackle staff engagement
Workplaces must evolve by 2020 to tackle the growing issue of employee engagement.Organisations will also have to squeeze their benefits providers to get the best value for money, said professor Richard Scase (pictured), futurologist at the University of Kent, during the closing keynote session The future of the workplace: how ...
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ArticleGoodman Masson trademarks staff engagement
EXCLUSIVE: Recruitment firm Goodman Masson has trademarked its employee engagement philosophy.The Experience® and the phrase ‘There is more to life than work®’ become registered trademarks on 28 February.Goodman Masson credits its low levels of employee attrition and high levels of employee engagement to a range of factors, including:Wellbeing initiatives, such ...
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ArticleDuncan Brown: Rebuilding and rehumanising performance management
They are not alone. E-reward will soon release its latest research on the subject. Its previous study found that most organisations, like this large one, had changed their process in the past three years. But most had further reforms planned, a hamster-wheel pattern of change that seems to leave most ...
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Duncan Brown: Linking reward with engagement
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) latest Employee Outlook survey, published in autumn 2013, found just 36% of employees were positively engaged at work and one in four of them are looking for a new job. With 38% of them reporting that their employer still has a pay ...
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Employee Benefits award win increases staff engagement
Amber Garner, benefits team leader at Home Retail Group, answers questions about what it means to win an Employee Benefits’ award.Home Retail Group won ‘Best employee share scheme’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2013.What has winning an Employee Benefits’ award meant to you and to your team?We are passionate about ...
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Havas People launches reward brand
EXCLUSIVE: Havas People has launched a brand called Many Thanks, which offers a range of options for employers to reward and recognise their employees.The options include gift cards, vouchers and e-codes from a range of well-known retailers, including Love2Shop, Marks and Spencer, iTunes and Debenhams.Employers can also choose from a ...
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Christmas bonuses not popular
The supermarket chain’s 180,000 staff shared a £17 million festive bonus, which included a £20 Asda gift card, £5 each towards a Christmas party, and a free meal.But according to Edenred’s Saying thank you at Christmas 2013 survey, two-thirds (65%) of employee respondents do not expect to receive a Christmas ...
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Effective employee value propositions engage staff
Global organisations that use an employee value proposition (EVP) most effectively are five times more likely to report that their employees are highly engaged, according to research by Towers Watson.Its Change and communication ROI survey, which questioned 207 large and mid-sized organisations in Asia, Europe and North America, found that ...
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Britvic recognised for employee engagement
Britvic Soft Drinks has been recognised for its employee engagement excellence with the Good Employer Award at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Awards.The awards celebrate organisations across the food and drink industry that make an extra effort to create a positive working environment for employees.Britvic was recognised for its ...
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Debbie Lovewell: Rethink motivation approach
Last month, the Global employee engagement trends report 2013, by management consultancy Hay Group, found that, in the UK, almost half (44%) of employees included in its sample do not believe their employer plays its part in motivating them. Also, 41% said conditions in their job do not allow them ...
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Keynote speakers inspired at Employee Benefits Live
During two packed days of top-level conference sessions, numerous leading employers and industry experts shared their experiences and expertise on a wide range of topics from pensions auto-enrolment, healthcare and wellbeing, flexible benefits and tax-efficient benefits to name but a few.Closing the first day of the conference, seven previous Employee ...
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Google named best multinational workplace
Google has been named the best global company to work for by The Great Place to Work Institute.Its 2013 Top 25 World’s best multinational workplaces list, which recognises employers with high trust and high engagement cultures, ranked Google at number one, followed by business analytics software organisation SAS Institute, data ...