PLP Group has the pleasure to inform you of our new organizationalwellbeing solution [Healthi Choices (Pty) Ltd], which will provide youwith a one-stop specialised human resources support solution. PLP hasidentified the need for more strategic, comprehensive and integrated wellbeingprogrammes that can be delivered more efficiently. Healthi Choices willfulfil these requirements by improving the competitiveness of the organizationsand the quality of the lives of the people they touch -offering bot

If you want to optimise productivity and keep key talent, now is not the time to cut back on your wellness programme or communication strategy. The consensus among major employers around the world is that the more employees know about your wellness programme the better impact it has on employee engagement – this in turn results in incresed productivity, an improved bottom line and retention of key talent. It’s rather alarming then that a number of companies have made the potenti

Considering the uncertain economic outlook for the year ahead, employers need to work smarter to ensure a balance between managing bottom-line spending and receiving the best from their workforce. With the highest unemployment rates in decades internationally, the workplace environment is under more pressure than ever before to deliver. This is further exacerbated by employees facing lay-offs, pay freezes, wage cuts, elimination of bonuses, reevaluation of benefits, reduced training budgets

When even the best of your workers are struggling to maintain – let alone improve – their output in the workplace, the time has come for new thinking around the productivity issue. Traditional measure like time management training, motivational workshops, goal setting and modernizing equipment are simply not delivering the desired results.  View article.

Maximising the value of the investment in the company’s employee value proposition (EVP) is one of the most important challenges for the HR function over the next decade. Companies that have introduced such a system are already reaping the rewards. Not only does it result in a substantial cost saving, but a centralized system also impacts positively on employee engagement by increasing the utilization of employee benefit programmes. Download PDF

Employees today spend more time managing their email (49 minutes per day) than playing with their children (25 minutes per day), according to a UK survey.  Further studies show this phenomenon is not exclusive to the UK. It is a global trend and working environment in South Africa proves to be no exception. Employees here are increasingly struggling to find the time to accommodate work and personal issues. “Employers are finding that escalating demands on employees are taking the

Telecommunications giant, Ericsson, will venture into a new era in employee support solutions on 1 December 2009. Called Ask Eric, this unique programme is the first to integrate an employee wellness, work/life balance and administrative support programme in a holistic approach to human resource issues.“This new thinking represents the future of employee assistance and can be outsourced in its entirety, taking a huge load of the shoulders of HR management,” says Audrey Makofane, OD&n

Companies that incorporated work/life balance programmes designed by staff retention specialists PLP in their HR offering have once again come out tops in the annual BEST Employers 2009/10 by CRF South Africa In the Best Employer Overall category, Accenture took top honours, while Microsoft and SAB Ltd also ranked among the Top 10. Another PLP client, Liberty Life, was rated first in the Finance: Investment and Insurance sector.This survey is held annually to identify South African companies who

If we consider that health issues account for only one out of three peoples abscence from work, it becomes clear that absenteeism is a symptom of a much larger problem - one that cost South Africa in excess of R19-billion in 2007! Factors ranging from family matters to something as basic as not having transport money prevent employees from reporting to work... Download PDF