All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1383
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ArticleJoe Richardson: Should employers offer more support for working parents?
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, working parents have been hit with a tidal wave of household pressures. However, for single parents, Coronavirus came without a lifejacket. While working couples have been able to ‘shift parent’ while their children haven’t been in school, single parents - from the ...
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Supplier articleIndia: Hidden complexities in a region with low-flex benefits
Paul Andrews, Global Benefits Director, BenefexWhen looking at global benefits technology, our simple to complex scale helps organisations to identify the level of complexity they need in each of their territories, based on individual locations and their benefits requirements. We then help organisations to prioritise their locations, and to get ...
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ArticleResearch reveals top paying careers after 20 years
New research by Standout CV has unveiled the top paying careers by the time an employee reaches their 20th year in the job.Traditionally the half-way point in people’s working lives, the study revealed that it is pilots who accumulate the most cash by their 20th work anniversary - pocketing £1,132,500.Created ...
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ArticleDechert Wellness Week focuses on resilience
Global law firm Dechert LLP is deploying a host of mental health and resilience tools, as well as running fun activities, as part of its second annual ‘Wellbeing Week’ this week.The theme of the week – which includes offering resilience webinars and videos on mindfulness and stress management – was ...
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ArticleC-Suite suffers most from mental health issues
Global research looking into mental health and resilience has found it is the C-suite that is suffering the most – although all employees say they want their company to do more to support them.Data compiled by Oracle and Workplace Intelligence revealed 53% of executives are struggling with mental health issues, ...
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Supplier articleHow to boost mental health post January blues
While there is hope that some normality is around the corner, employees are faced with the long slog that is lockdown 3.0. With mental health declining over the last 10 months, organisations should anticipate a rise in feelings of loneliness, anxieties, and staff burnout. It’s a critical ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Employer relationships weakened by Covid-19
EXCLUSIVE: Covid-19 (Coronavirus) has permanently changed employer-employee relationships, including employee attitudes to benefits, according to research by MetLife exclusively shared with Employee Benefits.The study, presented in a report entitled ‘Re:Me’, questioned 300 employers and 900 workers and found 62% of staff felt their relationship with the employer had changed, with ...
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ArticleAbercrombie appoints Holly May
Fashion brand Abercrombie & Fitch Co has appointed Holly May as its new chief human resources officer.May joins the brand having previously been senior vice president of global total rewards and service delivery at coffee giant Starbucks. At Starbucks she led the strategic direction of its global compensation and benefits ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid joins a project team
This week marks the kick-off of our latest benefits technology project. I am down as a subject matter expert, and it is my role to make sure that the business requirements are met. My colleague Lazy Susan is also a subject matter expert, which is rather unsettling unless her subject ...
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Supplier articleWhy is the Employee Experience so important?
If someone were to ask what drives a business, on the whole, the answer would be customers. Because without customers, there is no business. However, with equal measure, if not greater importance, employees actually make a business, as they are the cogs which in fact make the business tick on ...
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ArticleSleepJunkie offers $3000 to professional mattress tester
Something for the weekend: Many of us may be struggling with ‘Coronasomnia’ – difficulty nodding off due to the stresses and uncertainty brought about by Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - but now SleepJunkie is offering one sleeping beauty the chance to earn $3,000 (£2,200) in return for testing out mattresses.The job, which ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 28 January – 3 February 2021
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 28 January – 3 February 2021 were: Bank of America rolls out thank-you awardsCovid-19 causing a burnout epidemicLockdown benefits ‘not fit for purpose’How is the pensions dashboards project progressing?Cronkshaw Fold Farm offers goat cameos to combat Zoom fatigueStena U-turns on sick pay ...
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ArticleRevolut moves to permanent flexible working
Banking services app provider Revolut has this week confirmed it will permanently move to flexible working arrangements.From now on, the organisation's 2,000+ employees have a choice about when and how often they would like to work from home, and how often they would like to work in an office.Despite 98% ...
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ArticleWaterstones staff petition for minimum wage
A 1,500-signature petition signed by staff and well-known authors, including Philip Pullman, has been presented to Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, and chief operating officer, Kate Skipper, demanding the book chain's furloughed wages be raised to at least the minimum wage.Waterstones decided to close its stores during the current lockdown ...
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ArticleMinisters to win maternity leave rights
A legal loophole that meant ministers effectively needed to resign to be able to spend time with their newborn child has been addressed, with the announcement of the first reading of the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill yesterday.Due to ministers being appointed by the prime minister (PM), they are ...
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ArticleEmployers embrace wellbeing benefits
Group risk industry body Grid has unveiled what it calls an “encouraging increase” in employer-provided wellbeing benefits provision in response to Covid-19 (Coronavirus).In a poll of HR directors, it found 48% now felt they had greater responsibility for the mental health of their staff than they did before the pandemic. ...
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Pension scams rife almost one year on from when Covid-19 first struck
How to protect pension scheme membersThese uncertain times are often seen as a window of opportunity for scammers looking to prey on vulnerable individuals, with a recent report by Action Fraud finding that pension scams had become one of the most common types of fraud to occur last year. In ...
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Supplier articlePension scams rife almost one year on from when Covid-19 first struck
How to protect pension scheme membersThese uncertain times are often seen as a window of opportunity for scammers looking to prey on vulnerable individuals, with a recent report by Action Fraud finding that pension scams had become one of the most common types of fraud to occur last year. In ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Tailor Your Benefits to a Multi-Generational Workforce
When it comes to employee benefits, it’s never “one-size-fits-all”.In recent years, workforces in the UK are becoming increasingly multi-generational, multi-location and encompassing wider diversity than ever before. This is why it’s vital that you think about the types of benefits you need to offer, as well as how these benefits ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Five Key Considerations for Global Reward Managers
Your reward strategy should create a comfortable environment by providing transparency and real value.A transparent workplace is defined, simply, as an environment that ‘operates in a way that is open and honest between management and employees.’ This type of workplace increases trust, builds relationships, increases productivity and boosts innovation as ...