All articles by Tynan Barton – Page 27
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OpinionAlison Reynolds: Recognise the challenges affecting employees' mental wellbeing
Covid-19 (coronavirus) has led to an upheaval of our day-to-day routines, limited or halted access to our support systems, and thrown us into mass uncertainty. How long will it go on? When will we be able to see our family? How will our organisation fare? Uncertainty is notoriously difficult and ...
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AnalysisHow can employers support the mental health of employees while working remotely?
Need to know:The pandemic has caused a huge number of employees to work from home, with many having to do so while balancing their childcare responsibilities as well.Employers should check in with their employees on a regular basis to gauge their mental wellbeing.Mental wellbeing support, such as employee assistance programmes ...
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Case StudiesClearvision provides employees working remotely with mental health support
Clearvision has transferred its mental wellbeing support to a virtual offering during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic to ensure that employees have multiple avenues of help available to them.The software services firm, which has 55 employees in the UK and five in the US, reminds its employees regularly over video meetings ...
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OpinionDuncan Brown: Will reward strategies post Covid-19 mean the end of extreme market-driven flexibility?
Writing this piece in my back room in the midst of our coronavirus lockdown affords a good opportunity to reflect soberly on where recent reward and benefits orthodoxies and trends have taken us; and how they need to change in the future.A demotivated, low productivity workforce through manifestly ‘bad work’ ...
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OpinionSimon Richardson: How to define a benefits strategy for the ‘new normal‘
‘Exercising my right not to walk, sir!’ is the response of one of the students to the challenge from the maverick English teacher in the film ‘Dead Poets Society’ to find their own way of walking in order to challenge conformity. How often have we debated whether to participate in ...
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OpinionNigel Peaple: Employers need to show staff the value of pension contributions
With staff working from home and businesses under financial pressure from the Coronavirus lockdown, the government has provided two vitally important measures to support workplace pensions during this crisis.The first provides support for employers to meet automatic-enrolment contributions for workers. Grants paid to employers under the Coronavirus job retention scheme ...
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OpinionCarol Clarke: SDL stays in touch virtually with global workforce to support their wellbeing
SDL has over 4,500 employees across 39 countries and 60 offices around the world. Covid-19 (Coronavirus) has changed the way we work and collaborate with our colleagues and, even though we have supported agile working for many years, it is still a huge change for our global teams.One of our ...
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OpinionApril Horsman and Anne Sammon: Employers are key in supporting mental wellbeing
With a significant proportion of the UK economy now working from home due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, both organisations and the people within them are facing an unprecedented challenge in adapting to a new way of working. During these uncertain times, employers have a responsibility to ensure their workforce ...
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OpinionShabnam Ramzan: Snowflake supports the overall wellbeing of staff during a crisis
At Snowflake, our people are our greatest asset and we want to make sure that Snowflake is a great and safe place to work. One way that we can do this is by offering a comprehensive range of employee benefits that are designed to help look after health, wellbeing and ...
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AnalysisHow can employers support the health and wellbeing of a global workforce during a health crisis?
Need to know:The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is an unprecedented situation but international healthcare plans will already have provisions in place for such a situation.Benefits such as employee assistance programmes and telemedicine help to support global workforces by providing 24-hour-a-day access to support and medical advice.If evacuation is not an option ...
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OpinionTim Middleton: Pensions support for employers and staff is essential during the Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) crisis has had the most serious peacetime impact on society for over a century. With most of the population subject to lockdown, employers have scaled down their activities or suspended them altogether. This has seen an estimated nine million employees placed on the government’s furlough scheme and ...
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OpinionCarolyn Jones: Careful consideration is needed before making pensions decisions
The uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic means it is a crucial time for employers to support the financial wellbeing of staff. When it comes to concerns about pensions, employers should encourage staff not to panic and make rushed decisions without understanding all of the facts.For employees with defined ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Smarkets
The benefits offered by SmarketsPensionContract-based pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution, 5% employee contribution.PayPay transparency across the organisationSelf-set salariesFamily friendly and work-life balanceOn-call nanny, available to an employee up to five times a yearOnsite childcare room for bringing a child to workFlexible working available around core office hours of ...
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Case StudiesSmarkets backs employee mental health with suite of wellbeing benefits
Talent in the technology sector is highly sought after; like many industries, technology organisations are competing for the top applicants, and to do so means offering a competitive suite of benefits, appealing work or an attractive workplace culture. Financial technology start-up Smarkets claims all three.Susan Pinto, HR manager, says: “Our ...
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OpinionDr Anne de Bono: Occupational health is key to helping employees return to work
Occupational medicine, the clinical specialty which evaluates the two-way relationship between health and work, is key to support the health and wellbeing of employees.Historically, occupational doctors focused on diseases caused by work; for example, miners’ lung conditions, and bladder cancer among tyre manufacturers. These problems have dramatically decreased, at least ...
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OpinionMalcolm Hurlston: Share schemes must present attractive returns to engage younger employees
If early assessments of Generation Z are on the money, they will be like chalk to the Millennial cheese, leaving employers with the most interesting communications challenge they have ever faced with young people.Gen Z appear to be old before their time, the first generation ever to be thinking about ...
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OpinionZoe Denny-Thomas: Engaging younger staff with share plans should be a key goal
Engaging the different generations in the workplace is always a hot topic, and there is increasing evidence that take-up of share plans among younger employees is disproportionately lower than their older colleagues. However, this is not necessarily a sign of disengagement with their employer. In 2017, Proshare produced a report, ...
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AnalysisHow can employers engage younger employees with share schemes?
Need to know:With job-hopping becoming the norm, share scheme models may have to adapt to provide earlier payments to more immediately engage younger employees.Clear and constant communication is needed to ensure staff have bought into the scheme, and in turn, the objectives of the business.Share schemes can be an active ...
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ArticleGovernment announces reduction of most company car tax rates by 2%
Budget 2020: The government has confirmed a reduction of most company car tax rates by 2% in 2020/21, applicable to cars first registered from 6 April 2020.The benefit-in-kind tax rates will return to planned levels over the subsequent years: by 1% in 2021/22, and 1% in 2022/23. Rates will then ...