All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1403
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Supplier articleXexec rated the "#1 best Employee Recognition Software in Europe"
Xexec has been rated the "#1 Employee Recognition Software in Europe" in G2's Spring Report 2021. The Europe Regional Employee Recognition Grid Scoring ranks products and services by customer satisfaction (based on regional user reviews) and regional market presence (a measure of market share, seller size, and social impact). Xexec ...
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Supplier articleKey areas employees should understand if they are made redundant
Latest reports from The Office for National Statistics[1] have indicated that in February 2021, the number of payroll employees had fallen by 693,000 over a 12 month period. It also showed that for November 2020 to January 2021, the estimated UK unemployment rate was 5.0%, this is 1.1 percentage points ...
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Supplier articleWebinar: Build for the future by supporting and connecting with 100% of your frontline, WFH and hybrid workforces
How can you set your business and people up for success as we forge ahead in 2021? How can you be sure you are positively impacting every single employee each day? These are questions many HR and business leaders are asking themselves as they prepare to take ...
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Supplier articleWhat is the MotorSave employee benefit scheme?
The last year has been like nothing most have ever witnessed. Almost overnight, all of the news was about the coronavirus, shelves in supermarkets were emptied and the number of cars on the roads dwindled.With lockdown restrictions easing soon and the government’s roadmap to normality being announced, it won’t be ...
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Case StudiesHays supports the financial wellbeing of staff through the pandemic and beyond
Specialist recruitment group Hays offers a range of financial wellbeing benefits to help support its workforce through the pandemic and beyond.Rosemary Lemon, group head of reward, says: “Financial worries are one of the biggest causes of stress and this can affect how we feel emotionally, our mental wellbeing, and our ...
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OpinionKarleen Dowden: Employers must prioritise the financial wellbeing of employees
In March, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) Reward management survey called on employers to recognise both the moral and business case for taking more responsibility for their employees’ financial wellbeing.The estimated cost of low financial wellbeing each year as a result of absenteeism and presenteeism is £1.56 ...
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AnalysisHow are employers honing their financial wellbeing schemes to help staff weather the pandemic?
Need to know:Employers are moving away from purely educational financial wellbeing to pro-active interventions such as workplace savings schemes.Home working is driving a shift in the way financial wellbeing advice is provided.Despite the pandemic, financial wellbeing remains the Cinderella of employee wellbeing.The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is shining a spotlight on ...
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Supplier articleHR Heroes: Reaching a hybrid workforce with digital recognition and reward
Boosting morale and connections in the workplace has never been more important, as employees are more stressed and distracted than ever before. Today, many organisations have newly created hybrid workforces, where employees are working together or in isolation – on-site, at home, or on the front lines – and it’s ...
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Supplier articleTime to revisit and recharge your mental health armoury
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development and Marketing at Generali UK Employee BenefitsEmployees in the UK are at a particularly low ebb right now. In fact, the working population is currently as distressed as the ‘most distressed’ one per cent of working Britons, prior to 2020, according to Morneau ...
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Supplier articleCompanies that give Richer Sounds & Employee Ownership
Richer Sounds is a UK retailer with 52 stores nationwide that sell a range of Hi-Fi, home cinema, and TV equipment. Julian Richer, founder of the company has built a reputation for quality customer service and has long been an advocate for treating staff well and intends to reward his ...
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ArticleTPR publishes new climate change strategy
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published its new Climate change strategy, calling on pensions scheme trustees to invest in companies that protect savers from climate risk or face its own enforcement action.The report follows the recent recommendation by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for mandatory climate-related ...
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Article43% of employers with wellbeing initiatives report 'very good' productivity
The health of employees and the British economy is dependent on employers spending much more of their benefits budgets on wellbeing initiatives, according to new report.Coping after covid, produced by Westfield Health, interviewed 1,600 employees and HR leaders. It revealed that 43% of HR managers with wellbeing programmes in place ...
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Supplier articleEmployee-centred design within HR policy
As more and more employers realise the importance of designing experiences at work with the needs of the employee at the centre, we are starting to understand the potential contribution HR and company policy can have on wellbeing and employee performance. To explore this further, I had some conversations with ...
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ArticleRevolut staff can work abroad for two months a year
Digital banking app Revolut has said it will allow any of its 2,000 staff to work from abroad for up to two months a year.According to the company, the perk was predominantly introduced to accommodate the wishes of its substantially international workforce, who had a greater need to be able ...
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ArticleHome workers offered canine communications boost
Photo credit: Paws in WorkSomething for the weekend: Is your workforce suffering from the dog days of lockdown lethargy? Has life begun to feel little more than the tired work-from-home routine of logging on, catching up, logging off - and repeat? Perhaps your communications need some pawsitive energy.Fret no more. ...
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ArticleOcean Spray hires new chief HR officer
Ocean Spray, the American agricultural cooperative of cranberries and grapefruit growers, has appointed Sarah Evans as its new chief human resources officer.Evans joins the business after nearly two decades working for brands including pest control firm Terminix, where she was vice president of HR. Previously at Walmart, she rose to ...
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Supplier articleHow can a good employee Net Promoter Score add value to your balance sheet?
Whenever the question is asked about how a particular task or endeavour can add value to your organisation's balance sheet and bottom line, management's ears will perk up and eyebrows will be raised. The golden question is always about adding value to the business and setting itself apart from the ...
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Supplier article6 changes to put in place to better manage hybrid employees
If there’s anything we can say with certainty after the last 12 months, it’s that work as we knew it has changed (and if it hasn’t changed all that much for you, it most certainly will!). If we want our teams to thrive in an evolving environment, that means our ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 1 April – 7 April 2021
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 1 April – 7 April 2021 were: Top tips to help employees create a healthy home officePWC reveals flexible working ‘Deal’ for employeesPensions changes in the new tax yearWhat will be the key issues in reward and benefits post-Budget?Reckitt Benckiser Group reveals ...
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ArticleHealth and wellbeing benefits boost SME productivity
Research by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today (9 April) revealed that when small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) invest in health and wellbeing benefits it has a noticeable improvement in employee productivity.According to the study, three in five (60%) SMEs polled said that investing in health and wellbeing ...