Employee Benefits Ideas – Work schedules

Here is a comprehensive compilation of the most creative employee work schedule benefit ideas that enable innovative organizations deliver better value to their employees well beyond dental, health and pension options that most offer in their plans.

These ideas a relevant for all budgets and sizes of organizations and provide a simplified approach to Benefits planning to increase employee satisfaction.


 


 

Employee Benefits Ideas – Work schedules

 

  • Through a dedicated strategy, Accenture helps redefine how employees work, leveraging new technologies and workspace tools to increase flexibility and support a greener way of working — a number of employees work from laptops (there are no desktop computers) and decide where to work in the office (or at home), depending on their role and daily commitments

 

  • CIBC offers a number of alternative work arrangements to help employees balance their personal and professional lives and manages a formal “CIBC@Work” program to help employees design work schedules that suit their individual needs

 

  • Employees at Fidelity Canada can take advantage of a number of alternative work arrangements including flexible hours, telecommuting, a shortened work week option and reduced summer hours

 

Human Resources

Human Resources Consulting Firm TorontoWhat drives a great HR strategy? We have found that the most reliable and persuasive HR strategies are built on the intersections of the company’s capabilities, uniqueness and seamless execution. Businesses have to address a unique set of barriers that often require deeper insight. Arcus offers a fact based approach to align an organization’s strengths with customer needs.

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Dealing with complexity, constant change and resource optimization are priorities for growing for-profit and non-profit organizations. Change requires best practices in organizational effectiveness and flexible leadership. CEO’s need to learn about how to leverage best practices for effective change within their organizations. Benefits include substantial shareholder value, lower costs and streamlined businesses.

Our change model is based on practices of HROS (highly reliable organizations) in sectors with complex operations such as healthcare and nuclear energy. These organizations follow proven methodologies because human errors can have potentially catastrophic consequences. The comprehensive approach integrates process and human dimensions of change. Please review a few sample projects to learn more about our approach on an engagement.


 

Human Resources – Insights and Ideas

Human Resources – Insights and Ideas to help people managers optimize their strategies, strengthen retention and motivate staff. Read more.


 

Featured research: Beyond KPIs. The Importance of Building Trust.

Building Trust: “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” –Thomas Moore


 

trustMany leaders can attest to this experience: You ask your team to carry out a task that has enough flexibility for creative input. Rather than making their own decisions, the team comes to you with an onslaught of questions, trying to pin down the exact parameters of the task. 

 

The reason for this behaviour is a lack of trust or possibly gaps in competencies. The latest results of the Arcus Trust Index survey indicate that trust in business in Canada has declined precipitously by 12 points to 42% over the past year. We haven’t seen a 12-point dip in the Arcus Index (that includes 55 dimensions of trust) since the Enron days. People simply don’t trust others like they used to. Read more.