Fri.Nov 25, 2022

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Learning How To Improve Emotional Maturity

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is emotional maturity? Signs of emotional immaturity. Factors that contribute to emotional immaturity. How to improve emotional maturity. Growing toward emotional maturity.

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Harrods security guards strike in pay dispute

Employee Benefits

Credit: I Wei Huang / Shutterstock.com. More than 50 uniformed security guards and CCTV operators employed by luxury department store Harrods have commenced strike action over a pay dispute , starting at 12pm today (Friday 25 November). The employees, who decided on strike action following a one-year 7% pay offer, also warned of demonstrations outside the store’s Knightsbridge entrance on 26 and 27 November and 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 26 December.

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Characteristics of a Determined Person: How to Develop

BetterUp

Jump to section. What makes a person determined? The importance of determination in your life. Main traits of a determined person. How to become a determined person. Becoming a determined person.

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The case for providing better workplace support for migraine sufferers

Employee Benefits

Author : Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development and Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits. Migraine is one of the most common long-term and debilitating conditions for people of working age globally. Yet, maybe because it’s classed as an ‘invisible’ disability, it arguably doesn’t receive the attention it deserves when it comes to employee support requirements.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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9 Reasons Why We Need More Female Leaders in Workplace

HR Digest

Female leaders in the workplace are crucial to the success of an organization. It has been observed that women who hold leadership roles are more likely to be proactive, supportive, and engaged with their teams than men. The female-to-female ratio in the workplace is changing, and it’s good to know why. The importance of female leaders in the workplace has never been more apparent than it is today.

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Forget Me Not introduces salary sacrifice pension scheme

Employee Benefits

Huddersfield-based children’s Hospice charity Forget Me Not has launched a salary sacrifice pension arrangement in order to look after the financial wellbeing of its 140 employees. Through a partnership with financial wellbeing platform Maji, the charity will pay the total pension contribution on behalf of each member of its workforce, and in return staff exchange a portion of their gross salary equivalent to their usual contribution.

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2023 is Around the Corner: What’s your Benefits Strategy?

CorpStrat

Post pandemic, we know that employers are struggling to attract and retain talent. According to Zywave’s 2022 Attraction and Retention Survey, more than 75% of employers consider attraction and retention to be among their top five business challenges. This change in the labor market means t he old ways of delivering Employee Benefits are no longer enough to increase retention.

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The top 10 most-read articles between 18 – 24 November 2022

Employee Benefits

The top 10 most-read articles on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 18 and 24 November 2022 were: Tesco launches salary advance scheme for staff. Virgin Money gives staff 10% pay rise. Compass Group rolls out salary advance scheme for employees. Mitie introduces £10 million staff support package. Levy UK to pay real living wage from 2023. Staff at 19 UK universities strike over pay.

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Making the move from in-house to HR consulting

LACE Partners

In this week’s blog we hear from Emily Fryer , one of our amazing consultants at LACE. Prior to joining the team in September 2021 Emily worked ‘in-house’ at both UCL and Cath Kidson. In this blog Emily explains what motivated her move into consulting, the considerations she had and how she found the change. We are hiring for a number of roles, check out our latest openings here. .

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Barking Heads sniffs out Christmas Doggy Dinner taster

Employee Benefits

Something for the weekend: Natural pet food brand Barking Heads has started the hunt for its first ever canine Christmas Doggy Dinner taster to test its Christmas dog food menu. The winning pooch will receive a year’s supply of dog food worth more than £100 delivered to their doorstep. In return, the canine connoisseur will taste Barking Heads’ festive feast and review it via their paw-rent.

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8 Effective Ways to Improve Employee Engagement in 2023

Hppy

Have you wondered why so many companies struggle with employee engagement? Well, one of the main reasons is that many organizations don’t pay enough attention to it. . In fact, 63% of companies actually admit that trying to retain employees is much harder than hiring them. By looking at these stats, we see that employee engagement is directly related to employee retention and that many organizations are struggling with it. .

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WeightWatchers gives US staff six months of paid parental leave

Employee Benefits

WeightWatchers has introduced six months of paid parental leave for eligible full and part-time employees in the US. Chief executive officer (CEO) Sima Sistani, who joined the business in March, announced the new initiative on her LinkedIn page, explaining that she thinks society has taken a step back on what should be a key issue for businesses today.

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When and How DPIA Must Be Deployed to Processing Employee Records

Hppy

The digital footprint of our society has experienced exponential, rapid growth in recent years. This has the potential of making business operations more effective – and it has done it in so many ways. However, the loss of data privacy seems to go hand in hand with technological advances. It all makes security and privacy increasingly important, which prompted the creation of privacy laws and the DPIA – data protection impact assessment. .

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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How financial stress is impacting your employees’ health

Employee Benefits

73% of adults say their stress levels have been higher since the COVID pandemic [1] and now, according to our recent survey, the cost of living crisis is contributing to 82% of employees worrying about money at least once a week. As a result, employers are increasingly recognising that they need to put in place support mechanisms to help address employee mental health across all levels of their workforce.

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Thanksgiving Week: Writing and remembrance

Minding the Workplace

Hello, dear readers, I’m enjoying my traditional U.S. Thanksgiving trip to New York City right now. The 12 years I lived in this city (1982-94) were a personally and professionally formative time for me, so I always get a bit reflective when I visit. With this morning’s publication of a piece contemplating the notion of personal libraries (see below for link) to the blog of Harrison Middleton University , where I’m doing a side gig as a 2022 Fellow in Ideas , I thought I’

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Lovewell’s logic: An own goal or winning formula?

Employee Benefits

Last Sunday saw the Fifa World Cup 2022 kick off in Qatar. With many matches scheduled to take place during the working day, this year’s tournament poses something of a challenge for employers. According to research published by bookmaker Paddy Power last week, 47% of the 2,002 football fans surveyed said they intended to pull a sickie at some point during the tournament.