The picture of the head office of 2014, envisioned by HRDs in a survey by HR magazine, is an inspiring one. But is the required planning taking place to make it happen?
Distribution giant TNT's new voluntary benefits scheme ticks both money-saving and carbon-cutting boxes for staff. Pay and benefits satisfaction levels have risen by 13%.
Wine producer Chapel Down is toasting the success of a brand-aligned wellbeing scheme, designed to add passion and fizz to employees' daily lives.
A diverse workforce requires an equally diverse benefits package. Molton Brown complements perks that appeal to the young with a solid pension for the more mature.
To keep in touch with its far-flung workforce, Celerant Consulting has designed an attractive rewards package underpinned by distance-spanning web technology.
The flexible benefits scheme on offer at First Group companies First TransPennine Express and First ScotRail aims to help ease pressure on employees' household budgets.
Electronic communication about benefits can leave staff cold. By using a more human approach, market insights firm IRI has vastly improved take-up of its perks package.
Take-up of childcare vouchers at affordable housing provider Notting Hill Housing has increased by 25% following a communications drive to spell out the benefits. Alison Clements reports.
By giving employees access to the world's best medical minds, IT consultancy Ciber UK offers support for staff and their families when a serious illness is diagnosed.
As mutual financial services provider LV= has found, technology and outsourcing can allow even smaller companies the opportunity to offer flexible benefits packages. Alison Clements reports.
Royal Mail's investment in staff health pays for itself many times over in terms of reduced absenteeism, rate of return to work after illness and higher productivity
The results of this year's survey show that stress at work remains an incredibly damaging force. But amid all the gloom Alison Clements is able to detect some encouraging signs.
