All Total reward articles – Page 69
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ArticleMarshmallow appoints its first chief people officer
Digital insurance unicorn Marshmallow has appointed Caroline Gillard as its first chief people officer as it accelerates its drive for growth.The appointment follows Marshmallow announcing its $85 million (£62.3 million) Series B fundraiser in September, which valued the company at $1.25 billion (£912.1 million) making it one of the first ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: HLM Architects empowers staff to work flexibly
Employee Benefits 2021: Empowering employees and leaders to make their own decisions around flexible and hybrid working is the key to retention, argued Karen Mosley, managing director of HLM Architects.Discussing how to build a new HR strategy for the changing world of work on the second day of Employee Benefits ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Vertex: Work with D&I teams to build inclusive approach to benefits
Employee Benefits Live 2021: Working in partnership with diversity teams can help rewards professionals create benefits that are truly inclusive, advised Natalia Doxopoulos, associate director for total rewards at pharmaceutical company Vertex.Addressing delegates at the second day of Employee Benefits Live 2021 at London’s ExCel, she discussed the need for ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 1 October - 7 October 2021
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 1 October – 7 October 2021 were: Doggy perks temps staff back to the officeAldi gives staff Boxing Day off79% of employers offer enhanced maternity leave pay41% of staff workplaces affect wellbeingEXCLUSIVE: Pay policies and mental health at Employee Benefits LiveChris Mathieson: ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid gets money wise
Big Bad Boss is just back from a conference. The first chance we get to do something interesting in real life, and he decides to go without me. Huff. He’s come back raving about a new supplier in the wellbeing space, a firm that is offering a new type of ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: McDonald’s highlights changing nature of global reward
Employee Benefits Live 2021: Employers should be clear on what their organisation’s vision, values and responsibilities are, as well as making sure they know what employees want and need, advised Neal Blackshire, director of global total rewards at McDonald’s.Delivering the closing keynote on the first day of Employee Benefits Live ...
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ArticleMira Magecha joins Getir as chief people officer
Grocery delivery specialist Getir has appointed Mira Magecha as chief people officer, as it moves to expand the business across Europe and the US this year.Under her new role at the Turkish start-up, which she took up in September, Magecha is responsible for leading the brand's global people team, coordinating ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Live 2021 set to welcome delegates at ExCeL London
Employee Benefits Live 2021 is back and for the first time since 2019 will be welcoming delegates in-person to this key industry event, taking place at ExCeL London on 6-7 October 2021.This exciting and stimulating two-day conference and exhibition, which is the largest dedicated reward and benefits event in Europe, ...
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ArticleChris Mathieson: Should employers offer extra days off to support employees’ wellbeing?
Sipping champagne and enjoying afternoon tea with friends, luxuriating with spa treatments, hitting the golf course, climbing Munros. These are just some of the ways employees are spending their new wellbeing day as part of the Feeling Great at Grampian initiative.Grampian already offers a generous leave and benefits package, but ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Pay policies and mental health at Employee Benefits Live
EXCLUSIVE: Pay and mental health will be among the the unmissable topics discussed at Employee Benefits Live 2021.Trish Wanat (pictured right), director of Europe, Middle East and Africa benefits at VMware, will be co-presenting ‘Pay policies that reflect the changing world of work’ along with VMware’s director of regional compensation ...
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ArticleFirst Bus hires Kevin Green as chief people officer
Kevin Green, former chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, has announced he will return to an HR role as chief people officer at First Bus as of September.Green spent 10 years leading the industry body for recruitment agencies before stepping down in 2018, when the post was taken ...
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ArticleEG Group gives pay rise to 10,500 UK staff
Petrol station giant EG Group, owned by the billionaire Issa brothers who recently bought Asda, has given its 10,500 UK employees a pay rise, which takes effect today (1 October).The increased rates of pay will apply across all of EG’s petrol filling stations and foodservice brands throughout the UK, with ...
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Article79% of employers offer enhanced maternity leave pay
New data has highlighted that almost four-fifths (79%) of employers now offer staff enhanced maternity, adoption and surrogacy leave pay above the statutory minimum.Nursery care provider Bright Horizons’ Parental leave benchmark, which included almost 700 responses from sectors in the UK and Ireland such as financial, and legal and professional ...
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ArticleAchieving dreams at Employee Benefits Awards 2021
The Employee Benefits Awards 2021 continues to draw closer every week, as the 19th annual event is set to take place in six weeks’ time and will be returning to an in-person ceremony.The finalists for the 23 accolades at this year’s awards have now been revealed and all of the ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 24 September - 30 September 2021
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 24 September – 30 September 2021 were: Uber drivers to strike over pay rowWhat are the most effective ways of addressing pay gaps?How can reward and benefits drive an employer's diversity, equity and inclusion agenda?EXCLUSIVE: HR strategy at Employee Benefits Live 2021Ocado ...
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Article64% of furloughed employees had more than financial support
New research has revealed that nearly two-thirds (64%) of employees received some form of support other than financial while on furlough.Canada Life surveyed 500 furloughed UK adults and found that among those who received consistent support on furlough, 58% said this was through regular communication, 34% cited virtual check-ins and ...
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ArticleBrainPOP hires Kavita Vora as chief people officer
Kavita Vora has joined online educational specialist BrainPOP as its new chief people officer as of this month (September).Vora brings more than a decade of HR experience to her new position. Before joining BrainPOP she was the chief people officer at Splice, a digital music creation platform. Prior to that, ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: McDonald’s to give keynote at Employee Benefits Live
EXCLUSIVE: Neal Blackshire, director of global total rewards at fast food chain McDonald’s, will be giving the closing keynote about rewards strategy on Wednesday 6 October at Employee Benefits Live 2021.‘Adapting rewards and benefits on a global scale’, will take place at the end of the first day of the ...
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ArticleFour-day week most sought-after benefit
Almost two-thirds of Britons would like to work a four-day week, according to research into the popularity of various employee benefits.Only 39% of UK workers were happy with their current benefits package at work, while 43% think they could be improved. One in 10 of 2,200 adult workers polled by ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: HR strategy at Employee Benefits Live 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Dommy Szymanska, global head of pay and reward at fashion brand Stella McCartney, will be participating in a panel talk about benefits and HR strategy on Thursday 7 October at Employee Benefits Live 2021.Szymanska will be joining the session titled ‘Reimagining the future of work and benefits’ on the ...