All articles by Tynan Barton – Page 7
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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, ...
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OpinionSarah Clay: Should pension schemes trace missing members?
Many pension schemes will have missing members to whom benefits are due but cannot be paid as they are not contactable.As people move house, change their name or change their contact details, they may update as many organisations as they can with their new details. But what happens if they ...
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ArticleTim Middleton: Mansion House reforms bring risk alongside long-term reward
On 10 July 2023, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced an ambitious initiative designed to encourage pension schemes to invest in unlisted equities. In addition to proposed regulatory changes to scheme governance and the management of defined benefit (DB) schemes, Hunt sought to persuade the UK’s defined contribution (DC) and Local Government ...
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ArticlePaul Gilshan: Supporting carbon neutral driving
With the environment a core part of many organisations’ objectives, it can be a challenge to ensure that all business practices, including benefits, are maximising their opportunities to reduce carbon footprints.The switch to carbon neutral driving is helping more employers than ever before to remove polluting vehicles from their car ...
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ArticleBuyer's guide to bikes-for-work schemes
What are bikes-for-work schemes?Bikes-for-work schemes are tax-exempt arrangements that encourage employees to cycle to work to reduce environmental pollution and promote healthier lifestyles.The schemes are usually offered via a salary sacrifice arrangement. It was introduced in the 1999 Finance Act to encourage employers to loan bicycles and cycling safety equipment ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid explores the complexities of mental health first aid
Big Bad Boss has asked me to train as a mental health first aider, which is a bit like asking the IT function to advise on personal hygiene. That said, it is a lot more interesting than usual stuff I do. For example, my next task is looking at the ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid takes on mental health first aid
Big Bad Boss has asked me to train as a mental health first aider, which is a lot more interesting than the usual stuff I do. For example, my next task is looking at the lifestyle options on our defined contribution (DC) pension plan. Snore.It would be nice if the ...
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ArticleBeverley Hamblet-Bowes: How do you encourage employees to use green commuting options?
Sustainability is important for us at Nominet; we are committed to reducing the negative impact our business activities may have on the environment and lowering our carbon emissions through our carbon reduction plan to support our net-zero 2050 goal.As part of this, we provide a variety of options for green ...
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ArticleIan Hodson: How do you encourage employees to use green commuting options?
More than ever, being able to demonstrate your values as an organisation is imperative not only to active employees but also to recruitment candidates looking for a match not only in respect of the role, but also the organisational culture. Encouraging employees to take greener travel options can be an ...