Music streaming business Spotify has pledged to continue offering healthcare and provide severance pay after announcing plans to cut 600 jobs globally. In a blog post to staff, its...
Read moreDetailsHybrid workers who split their time between office and home working are less likely to feel burned out than their fully office-based counterparts, new research has found. The study...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s refusal to make menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and its rejection of a large-scale pilot of menopause leave in England have been met...
Read moreDetailsAlphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, has told employees in the US they will be allowed to keep some of their employee benefits as they cut 12,000 jobs...
Read moreDetailsNew figures on employee assistance programme (EAP) usage show record highs in 2022, and now EAP providers are predicting a massive fall-out from the cost-of-living crisis still to come....
Read moreDetailsSupermarket giants Tesco and Asda are among a host of major employers with a collective UK workforce of almost 600,000 that have committed to helping staff who are going...
Read moreDetailsBupa Global and UK has launched a health support package for 15,000 frontline workers in the UK as part of its wider plan to increase health benefits for all...
Read moreDetailsEveryone’s heard of the ‘January Blues’ – the period after the festive season when the rush has ended, there’s a seemingly endless wait until payday and the weather seems...
Read moreDetailsEvery cloud has a silver lining, they say, and the lockdown years were no exception from an employer-employee relationship point of view. There's been a shift to accommodating more...
Read moreDetailsEmployment law firm Stephensons has backed suggestions from Asda chair and former M&S chief, Lord Rose of Monewden, that employers should be required by law to support their employees’...
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The podcast from Benefits Expert, the title for HR, reward and benefits professionals.
Seasoned professionals examine the challenges and innovations in today’s employee benefits, reward and HR sector. Every episode, they will unbox a key issue and unpack what it really means for employers and how they can tackle it.
The regulars are Claire Churchard, editor of Benefits Expert; Carole Goldsmith, HR director at the Royal Horticultural Society, and Steve Herbert, consultant and rewards & benefits veteran.
Return-to-office mandates are a topic that’s generating plenty of heat in the media, but how closely do the headlines match workplace reality?
In this episode, one of a three-part series of 10-minute podcasts, hosts Claire Churchard and Steve Herbert discuss data that shows remote or home working is on the rise.
We look at what this means for HR, from balancing employee flexibility with business needs, to ensuring benefits packages remain fair and accessible. We discuss the pinch points, and the opportunities, in building the new normal of work.
