Category: Corporate benefits | Your Employee Wellbeing

Supporting your people back to the office

Written on 8th September 2020. Posted in Blogs, Corporate benefits, Diversity and Inclusion, Flexible Working, Work Life Integration.

Supporting your people to return to the office I was surprised by the findings of a survey just published by the Manpower Services Group: workers in the UK are far more negative about returning to the office than those in other countries, like France or Germany. What’s going on? It seems that we are much more worried about the likelihood of a...

Enhance your business with a happy and motivated workforce

Written on 1st September 2020. Posted in Benefits and Rewards, Blogs, Corporate benefits, Wellbeing.

Discover how a happy and motivated workforce can enhance your business Everybody wants to be in a job they love. Some have found it, and some are still striving for it. But how do you, as an employer, create a happy and motivated workforce? Just as crucially, what are the benefits it can have on your business? Recognise your worker’s progress Appreciating...

News Release – Parental Choice to support Working Families at Jupiter Asset Management

Written on 3rd August 2020. Posted in Benefits and Rewards, Corporate benefits, News Releases, Working Families, Working Parents.

NEWS RELEASE Parental Choice to support Working Families at Jupiter Asset Management Parental Choice today is delighted to announce a new agreement with Jupiter Asset Management to provide concrete support for its working families. The partnership will see the investment management company offer a tailored family support package for its UK-based...

What kind of employer do you think you are?

Written on 1st June 2020. Posted in Benefits and Rewards, Blogs, Corporate benefits, Work life balance, Working Families, Working Parents.

What do you think you are? This is not a deep philosophical catechism designed to get you soul searching but rather a simple direct question aimed at businesses. What do you think you are? What kind of employer do you aspire to be? It is not without a sense of irony that these questions sound parental (akin to a parent quizzing a teenager) because...

A look at good company culture

Written on 17th January 2020. Posted in Blogs, Career, Corporate benefits, Diversity and Inclusion, Wellbeing, Work life balance, Working Dad, Working Families, Working Mum, Working Parents.

A Look at Good Company Culture: How Performance (and Everything Else) Will Follow Despite some improvements in happiness levels among the UK workforce, The Independent reveals that nearly half are still set on searching for new jobs. And the biggest culprit? Poor management. Poor management is an expensive weakness that can cost companies lost productivity...

Supporting employees who care

Written on 27th November 2019. Posted in Blogs, Career, Corporate benefits, Eldercare, Work life balance.

Pulled in all directions: How to support employees who care There are many things to be grateful for in the twenty first century. We are living longer, loving whom we like and accepting those who differ from us. A greater move towards tolerance and diversity in the workplace has provided opportunities to numerous individuals who may not have...

Reverse Culture Shock

Written on 20th November 2019. Posted in Benefits and Rewards, Blogs, Career, Corporate benefits, Diversity and Inclusion, Family, Global Mobility, Relocation, Work life balance.

Reverse culture shock Reverse culture shock describes the phenomenon of ‘culture shock’ in reverse, i.e. the difficult feelings people experience when they return home after having lived abroad. Initial happiness may give way quickly to dissociation, isolation, boredom, sadness and even depression. Unlike culture shock, which tends to be widely...

All change – settling relocating kids

Written on 18th November 2019. Posted in Blogs, Corporate benefits, Global Mobility, Parenting, Work life balance, Working Dad, Working Mum.

All change – settling relocating kids When I first expressed my concern to friends and family about how our kids (then aged 3 and 6) would cope with our forthcoming move from London to California, everyone was quick to reassure me how adaptable children are. In reality…. …it turned out that uprooting ourselves from our little patch...

LGBT and Diversity – a corporate example

Written on 6th November 2019. Posted in Benefits and Rewards, Blogs, Career, Corporate benefits, Diversity and Inclusion, Family, LGBT, LGBTQ+, Parenting, Work life balance.

LGBT and diversity – A corporate example To understand how LGBT inclusion features in into a Diversity & Inclusion strategy we asked our corporate Partners Northern Trust to give us an insight as to what they are doing … Northern Trust is a global financial services firm, employing 18,000 people across the globe. We work hard to ensure that...