All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1401
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ArticleDF Capital becomes living wage employer
DF Capital, the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)-focused bank first founded in 2016, has become an accredited living wage employer.The move means the bank will now pay a salary to all its 85 staff that exceeds the minimum hourly rate of £9.50 for those aged over 25.Employees will be guaranteed ...
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ArticleRoyal Mail workers set to receive share dividend
Tens of thousands of Royal Mail workers are set to receive a one-off 10p per share dividend after the delivery company announced adjusted operating profits rising to about £700 million in the year ending March 2021.The dividend – more than double what it was just two years ago and the ...
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Supplier articleHow to communicate with remote workers to drive connections and create a virtual culture
Maintaining strong company-wide connections is challenging at the best of times, even if employees are sitting side-by-side. When you throw numerous locations, newly remote workers, and a global pandemic in the mix, as one would expect it becomes all the more difficult.While organisations pivoted to keep their employees safe and ...
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Supplier articleThe nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 1)
The last 12 months have brought with them incredible changes to people’s lives in all domains. Routines have been badly affected and people have suffered a significant loss; of connections, of support, of important life experiences.As lockdown was announced in the UK in March 2020, wellbeing scores of users of ...
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OpinionMatt Fryer: Don’t misread new IR35 guidance
There’s been something of a panic about IR35 these past few years - not least because it’s now been beset by delay. When businesses were struggling with dealing to meet last year’s deadline, the arrival of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) gave everyone a probably much needed extra year. But this time has ...
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Supplier articleImproving the employee reward experience with choice and transparency
Imagine receiving a gift for a job well done. Pretty nice, isn’t it? But now, you learn that the reward you've received is the exact same item for every person who receives an award.Even when created with good intentions, rewards can fall flat. Defaulting to a cup of coffee for ...
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Supplier articleThe nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 2)
A third (31%) of users indicated that they are feeling nervous about socialising, both for fear of doing so too soon and causing the further spread of Coronavirus and because of doubts about mixing comfortably in a group again. Men reported feeling more excited than women, and the group who ...
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ArticleGroup protection usage hit by data privacy fears
New research has suggested that slower-than-anticipated uptake of some group protection benefits may be due to data privacy fears.According to a study by Legal and General, 19% of staff questioned who had access to employee assistance programmes (EAPs) revealed that privacy concerns were a barrier to usage – a figure ...
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ArticleAmey rolls out new mental wellbeing support
Infrastructure services provider Amey has teamed up with mental health charity Mates in Mind to help widen the conversation among staff about managing their mental wellbeing and resilience.The partnership will see the organisation roll out the charity’s bespoke mental health and wellbeing programmes to staff, starting with online mental health ...
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ArticleWomen reveal lack of menopause support at work
Research published today (31 March) has highlighted the lack of menopause support women receive as they struggle to stay in work while experiencing symptoms.According to the Driving the change: menopause and the workplace report, not only is help sporadic but also poor in quality, with 76% of respondents calling for ...
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Supplier articleUsing Recognition to radically improve Employee Communications [webinar]
Having an effective employee communications strategy is now at the heart of the HR agenda. As internal communications technology (Teams, Slack, Yammer, Zoom…) becomes ever more central to employee engagement, we’ll discuss how Employee Recognition can support this strategy and play a critical role in strengthening employee ...
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Supplier articleWebinar: Strategic success with meaningful metrics in wellbeing
Join me at the Digital Watercooler, where we take your wellbeing objectives up a notch. For this session, I’m joined by Wellbeing strategy and transformation consultant, Yulia O’Mahoney, who will help you to pinpoint the actual purpose of your wellbeing strategies. Together, we unravel the common product-led ...
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Supplier articleWork-life balance: five pieces of the workplace wellbeing jigsaw
We continue to explore the critical issue of work-life balance – an issue which COVID has brought into sharp focus - with a blog post that suggests some strategies, tips and ideas to help both managers and employees to stay on the right track. In a previous ...
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AnalysisWhat will be the key issues in reward and benefits post-Budget?
Need to know:New budgetary policies could see a squeeze on employee benefits and rewards.Reward professionals must tailor rewards to meet staff’s physical, social and financial needs in the 'new normal'.Employees are increasingly demanding sustainable rewards and benefits.Reward professionals hoping the Chancellor’s latest Budget might provide radical policies to transform the ...
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OpinionCharles Cotton: Employers are likely to take a targeted approach to pay post-Budget
The focus of this year’s Budget was on supporting lives and livelihoods. For instance, to help protect jobs, the furlough scheme was extended to September, while to support small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) invest more in IT and improve management capability, the Help to Grow initiative was launched.In terms of ...
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Case StudiesAND Digital prioritises employee choice and flexibility
Six years after its launch, technology specialist AND Digital decided its benefits package was in need of an urgent overhaul.The organisation's aim was to provide a benefits solution good enough to support staff through a global pandemic, on a platform that would satisfy its high-tech employees.The solution also had to ...
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Supplier articleThe nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 3)
Caroline Outterside, a psychological therapist, notes some of the reasons for these concerns and the ramifications: “The change curve theory suggests we experience a gradual transition process of adjusting to the loss we feel, through a range of emotions that include denial, frustration, confusion, even depression until we get to ...
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Supplier articleDefining the new Employee Value Proposition in 2021
Your first guess might be that the most important thing to a prospective employee is salary. But the reality is that there are many other pieces that round out a complete Employee Value Proposition, and salary is only one of them.That’s especially true in today’s ever-changing world, where the COVID-19 ...
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Supplier articleHow internships can help improve company culture
Company culture is vitally important to the success of a company. With 97% of large employers planning to hire interns and an estimated total of one to two million of them. This could lead to a change in the way companies work.Each Person’s InternsFirst up, Kate is currently an undergraduate ...
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Supplier article11 Creative global benefits ideas
As the saying goes, if we had a £1, €1 or $1 for every occasion we had been asked if a benefit offered in one territory was ‘standard’ across other regions, we would be very happy. As you would expect, we have seen a number of benefits that at first ...