Staff reward & recognition
Buckinghamshire County Council reward carers for their loyalty with Love2shop vouchers
Recognising the vital work carried out by all its foster carers, Buckinghamshire County Council was looking for a measurable way to show its appreciation. The Social Services department looked to reward the current carers for their loyalty and initially thought about giving cash, but were aware that cash incentives can be less effective. The decision was therefore made to use gift vouchers because they provided benefits for both the council and the foster carers.
Friends Provident say 'thank you' with Love2shop
Friends Provident, a leading provider of financial products and services, recently reached Five Star Status within the Financial Services Industry. Seen as a major achievement for the company, Friends Provident wanted to recognise the role that its employees had played in achieving the excellent accolade and looked to reward its entire workforce. They decided to reward their 5,000 staff by issuing £40 worth of Love2shop vouchers because of the number of redemption partners they could offer.
KP Nuts celebrates its 50th anniversary with Love2shop vouchers
To mark its 50th Anniversary, KP Nuts, based in Rotherham was looking for a way to recognise its staff's achievements and loyalty, which would appeal to all 320 employees, who have an average of 16 years length of service. Love2shop gift vouchers, combined with other forms of recognition, were chosen to reward the workforce for their continuing contribution and commitment to the business.
Love2shop the voucher of choice for Pizza Express's incentive programme
PizzaExpress were looking for a way to incentivise the workforce across its 300 restaurants. To promote high levels of customer service, the company wanted to reward those employees demonstrating excellent customer care and undertook an incentive evaluation programme. PizzaExpress implement quarterly challenges and run mystery shopper reports across its restaurant portfolio, to regularly assess the customer service skills of its staff. Employees, including chefs, waiters and management, who achieve 100% are all rewarded with an incentive package.
Private Health Care Company uses Love2shop to encourage idea and suggestion generation
A leading private health care company had had a long tradition of providing its employees with a number of Reward and Recognition schemes. The company realised that it had a huge untapped pool of potential ideas at its disposal: its staff. Their staff would see at first-hand how certain areas could be improved. If individuals were encouraged to share their ideas, they could not only improve areas of the business as mentioned above but also promote a positive creative and innovative culture within the workforce creating a better and more constructive atmosphere.
Reward scheme implemented to encourage health and safety ideas
An Electrical Components Manufacturer decided to conduct an internal market research study to determine the best way to monitor Health and Safety issues. Feedback concluded that a reward scheme should be implemented to encourage individuals to suggest Health and Safety ideas. As well as this, the company introduced a positive peer to peer approach to Health and Safety issues. Employees could nominate their colleagues for demonstrating best practice when it came to conducting themselves in a safe manor around the site. This encouraged individuals to look out for positive behaviour thus encouraging sharing of best practice.
NHS Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) choose Love2shop to reward loyal service
Tasked with looking at the PPA Long Service Awards, members of the purchasing, Finance and HR teams were asked to look at the acknowledgement process. Weighing up the benefits of different mechanics, the Love2shop gift vouchers was ultimately selected as the chosen reward because staff from Newcastle and Durham to Sheffield, Preston and Manchester could equally use them without being limited geographically.
Smith and Nephew Medical Ltd utilise Love 2shop as its reward mechanic
Smith and Nephew Medical Ltd, based in Hull were looking for a reward mechanic that could be used to motivate, recognise and reward its extensive 1,100 employees base. It choose Love2shop gift voucher and approximately five years on, the long standing relationship has evolved to ensure gift voucher incentives are at the heart of a varied human resources programme. Used to acknowledge staff effort and keep employee moral high, Love2shop gift voucher has been used to reward landmark events and occasions including Smith & Nephew's Long Service Awards.
Chemical Company provide Love2shop vouchers to revamp Long Service Awards
As part of its reward and recognition programme to increase loyalty and sense of value within its workforce, a major chemical company looked to revamp its long service award. Traditionally, after 25 years service employees had been given a gift catalogue containing the usual array of gifts and gold carriage clocks and attended an annual dinner gala. With the days of a job for life a thing of the past, the company conducted a poll amongst a segment of its employees to see what they felt was an appropriate length of service to be rewarded and what award they would like.