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Duncan Brown: Fear not the key for motivation
Aon Hewitt has contributed, with its annual HR barometer of director priorities in organisations with more than two million staff in Europe, and the Global engagement trends study drawn from its database of five million employees.Although the economic indicators are, at last, suggesting the UK is spluttering into recovery, the ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2013: Most engaging benefits package
Winner: Holiday ExtrasScheme: My.extrasEntered by: Thomsons Online BenefitsThe winner of this category is recognised for how it has used benefits within a wider strategy to engage employees, and the extent to which staff have been engaged to influence wider business results, such as improved productivity and absence levels.The judges felt ...
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Capital One tops list of best UK workplaces
Credit card organisation Capital One, consultancy Impact International and social media firm Propellernet were ranked among the top employers in the Great Place to Work Institute’s list of best workplaces in the UK.Capital One took top spot in the large organisation (500 or more employees) category, Impact International in the ...
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John Lewis extends staff volunteering
John Lewis will allocate more than 33,000 working hours each year to enable its employees to spend more time volunteering.Each of the retailer’s stores has a community liaison coordinator who works with local community groups and charities to identify a range of ways in which staff can support them, including ...
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Mitie Group staff take part in charity bike ride
Mitie Group employees have taken part in a 180-mile bike ride around London. The London Revolution, which brought together 2,000 cyclists along a route of London landmarks and Olympic venues, was sponsored by Mitie Group and its charity partner City Gateway, which aims to help unemployed young adults through training, ...
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ArticleHealthcare perks improve staff engagement
In the Healthcare research 2013, published this month, 51% of respondents said their healthcare benefits had improved employee engagement, compared with 33% that said the same in 2010, and 26% that said the same in 2009.This year’s respondents also feel their healthcare benefits are most successful in achieving the following: ...
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Employee engagement a priority for employers
Research published by YouForce in May found that 79% of respondents rated employee engagement as a high priority, but only 41% had a strategy in place. Of the 41% that do have a strategy, 30% said it improves employee performance and 13% said it improves retention.The Benefits Research 2013, published ...
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Staff celebrate engagement with tattoos
We reported earlier this month that US-based real estate agency Rapid Reality offered employees a 15% pay rise in return for them getting a tattoo of the organisation’s logo.Young, technology workers in Bangalore, India, however, clearly missed this story. These high-fliers tattoo their bodies with their employer’s logo for nothing.The ...
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Employee engagement on the rise across Europe
Employee engagement levels in Europe rose to 57% in 2012, up from 52% in 2011 and 51% in 2010, according to research by Aon Hewitt.Its Global engagement trends report, which surveyed more than 3,500 organisations, representing more than 3.8 million employees, found that the top five drivers of engagement for ...
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Sanctuary Group staff take part in volunteering day
Sanctuary Group staff collectively donated around 85 hours to volunteering on national Give and Gain Day on 17 May.Employees from the housing and care provider took part in a variety of projects, including: repainting a community centre on the Kingsmead Estate in Hackney, London; transforming green areas around the Shiregreen ...
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Boots and Waitrose support staff volunteering
Boots, British Gas, Lloyds Banking Group, Prudential and Waitrose are among the employers supporting Give and Gain Day by offering employees the opportunity to volunteer.Give and Gain Day, on 17 May, will see more than 11,000 UK employees volunteer in their local communities.The day is part of Business in the ...
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Less than half of employers have engagement strategy
The majority (79%) of respondents rate employee engagement as a high priority, but only 41% have an employee engagement strategy in place, according to research by YouForce.The research, which was conducted in March 2013, found that, of the 41% which do have an employee engagement strategy, 30% said it improves ...
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Holiday Extras and Roche UK shortlisted for engaging benefits
Holiday Extras and Roche UK are among the employers that have been shortlisted for the award ‘Most engaging benefits package’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2013.This award focuses on how an employer used benefits within its wider strategy to engage employees with the organisation. The winner will have demonstrated how ...
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Engagement is leading focus for employers
Almost three-quarters (74%) of respondents to The Benefits Research 2013 cited this as the top issue shaping their organisation’s benefits package. This figure has risen since 2009, when just under two-thirds (62%) said the same.But, when asked what action they plan to take in the next 12 months in response ...
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Employers ranked by CSR criteria
Diversity and inclusion were scored as the highest corporate social responsibility (CSR) indicators in the FTSE 100, according to research by Towers Watson and Business in the Community (BITC).The first Workwell FTSE 100 benchmark scored FTSE 100 companies against BITC’s Workwell criteria, which includes a total of 25 indicators across ...
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Emerging technology aids health strategies
Most organisations have a health engagement strategy in place, however, many do not take advantage of emerging technology to communicate this to employees, according to research by Buck Consultants and WorldatWork.The Emerging technology in health engagement research, which polled 400 multinational organisations, looked at the use and effectiveness of emerging ...
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Employers plan to evolve health strategies
EXCLUSIVE: Almost two-thirds (69%) of employer respondents plan to develop their health and wellbeing strategies over the next two or three years, according to research by Towers Watson.Its Health, wellbeing and productivity survey 2012-2013 found that 15% of respondents plan to significantly increase their support over the next two or ...
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Employee Benefits Connect: Work environment will change radically
During the closing keynote presentation at Employee Benefits Connect, Millard (pictured) said: “Choice and control are two major themes we are looking at into the future.”Work is no longer constrained to the hours of nine to five because of globalisation and the need for staff to work across different time ...
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Employees want government to incentivise flexible working policies
The majority (82%) of employee respondents said the government must do more to incentivise organisations to implement flexible working policies, according to research commissioned by Plantronics and conducted by OnePoll.The research, The state of the flexible working nation, surveyed 2,000 UK employees to gain understanding of the UK’s changing working ...
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Engagement vital for business transformation
EB Connect 2013: The key to transforming a business and achieving maximum success is to motivate and engage all employees with the organisation and its objectives, according to Kevin Gaskell, former managing director of Porsche and BMW.Speaking in the opening keynote session ‘Turbulence and recession: the perfect opportunity’ at Employee ...