All articles by Tynan Barton – Page 7
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ArticleBrake Brothers staff secure pay deal
More than 400 employees at food distributors Brake Brothers have accepted a pay deal of between 19.3% and 23.2% increases on the basic hourly wage.Trade union Unite worked with its members to secure the pay deal, worth over £6,000, for Brake Brothers warehouse workers and distribution drivers based at Newhouse ...
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ArticleKaren Bates: What are the benefits of including pets in workplace culture?
BrewDog began with two men, one dog and a passion for great craft beer, so pets, and dogs specifically, are in our brand DNA. So, for us, we have always been a dog-friendly company. Over the years, we have introduced several pet-related benefits, including Pawternity leave, which allows staff to ...
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ArticleTony Ottley and Mark Scott: What are the benefits of including pets in workplace culture?
Malcolm Cochrane PhotographyLast year we opened what we believe to be the UK’s most pet-friendly office, Parklife. Following lockdowns and pets doing right by us, keeping us company as we worked from home, we felt we needed to do right by them.We often hear of organisations talking about being pet ...
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ArticlePaul Steadman: What are the benefits of including pets in workplace culture?
At Nestlé, as pet food producers of Purina, we passionately believe pets and people are better together. We have welcomed dogs into our offices since 2003 and know from this experience the benefits pets bring to a workplace.Having pets at work offers a multitude of benefits to both our business ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid helps allocate share award budgets
I do not normally get involved in the allocation of restricted shares. All I normally do is review the percentages offered against market data. Long-term incentives are naturally quite stable, so I only need look at them every couple of years. I have been dragged in this year because we ...
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Case StudiesBenefits on offer at Daemon
The benefits on offer for UK employees at Daemon from day one of employment; employees outside of the UK receive a benefit allowance to ensure parity.Pension and group riskA group personal pension (GPP) plan with an 8% employer contribution for all UK employees, with no minimum employee contribution.Death-in-service benefit of ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Daemon's reward approach supports its remote-first working model
Employee Benefits · Employee Benefits/Daemon podcastListen: In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Jenny Locke, head of people at Daemon, discusses the reward strategy at the technology consultant, and how the organisation provides an enticing employee experience to retain key talent.Locke explains how the strategy is aligned to the ...
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ArticleBuyer's guide to health cash plans
What are health cash plans?The origins of health cash plans can be traced back to the 19th century when they were originally provided by charitable or non-profit organisations. As a support system that pre-dates the creation of the NHS in 1948, cash plans helped employees pay for their various healthcare ...
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ArticleFrank Creighton: Solving employee value challenge is key to improving UK productivity
Improving productivity has been highlighted as critical to driving growth in the UK economy. But with millions of employees still feeling undervalued at work, reward and recognition offers a cost-effective way to motivate teams to bridge that gap.Love2shop's second UK-wide survey of UK workers, Employee value report, found that ...
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ArticleJoe Dent: Could employers do more to support the mental health of staff?
Mental health and the wider topic of health and wellbeing of our colleagues is of the utmost importance to us, which is why it’s one of the six key pillars of our People Excellence Strategy, bringing to life the Our Princes – Our People philosophy.Whether colleagues are facing emotional, physical ...
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ArticleDani Saadu: Could employers do more to support the mental health of staff?
As workplace dynamics continue to evolve and mental health issues become more prevalent, employers are responsible for proactively supporting their employees' mental wellbeing. While this is important all year round, World Mental Health Day serves as a poignant reminder of the significance of collective action in this critical area.Organisations should ...
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ArticleMarco Pezzani: Could employers do more to support the mental health of staff?
Mental health is complex. It can be affected by several factors, and there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ approach that works for everyone. We all experience mental health in a different way, depending on our identity.Ricoh UK’s wellbeing strategy has been designed with this complexity in mind. It takes ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid focuses on employee engagment
I am on the new employee engagement board. Sounds pretty fancy, eh? Little do they know I am possibly the least able to provide positive input; I have been here too long to do much more than convincingly pretend to be engaged. My nemesis, Nasty Nancy, from the employee development ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Centrica promote benefits to support financial wellbeing
Employee Benefits Live 2023: Enterprise Rent-A-Car has supported employees during the cost-of-living crisis with a salary increase and conducted a benchmark analysis of its pay and benefits providers.Addressing delegates at Employee Benefits Live 2023 in a session titled Increasing employee financial wellbeing without increasing business cost, Alyson Dickman (pictured), HR ...
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ArticleExclusive: Bernadette Thompson OBE addresses inclusivity in HR profession
Employee Benefits Live 2023: HR departments need to focus on driving diversity and inclusivity within their own teams in order to better support the wider business, according to Bernadette Thompson OBE, director of equality, diversity and inclusion at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.Addressing delegates at Employee Benefits Live 2023, ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Nominet's total reward approach supports employees' needs
Employee Benefits/Nominet podcast interviewListen: In this episode of the Employee Benefits podcast, Beverley Hamblet-Bowes, director of HR at Nominet, talks about how the organisation takes a total reward approach to benefits, and how it ensures that it is fair and consistent among all employee groups.Hamblet-Bowes explains that Nominet's aim is ...
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Case StudiesBenefits on offer at Nominet
The benefits offered by Nominet:PensionsA group personal pension (GPP) scheme for all employees.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance (PMI) for all employees, employer funded. Employees can add dependents at personal cost.Health screening.Health cash plan for all employees. Employer funded, but employees can opt for a higher level of cover at personal ...
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ArticleAmanda Childs: What does the future hold for hybrid working?
The way in which we choose to perform our work is evolving at a faster rate than ever before. We are increasingly more exposed to differing human insights and practices through neuroscience. Alongside this, we experience new and different digital capabilities in ways that simply just creep up on us.Organisational ...
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ArticleClaire McCartney: What does the future hold for hybrid working?
While we have heard many headlines in recent months of larger employers calling workers back into the office full-time, our flexible and hybrid-working research findings at the Chartered Insititute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), published in May 2023, show that employers’ approaches on the whole, are much more balanced ...
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Duncan Brown: What does the future hold for flexible and hybrid working?
‘Desk bookings have grown by 46% since last Autumn… job switching slowed, power shifted back to employers’. The CEOs drawing a hardline on return-to-office policies’, BBC News, September 7th 2023‘Amazon CEO tells staff ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ unless they visit office three days a week’. The Guardian, ...