Through this period we are continuing to provide all company benefits.

We are mindful that some colleagues may wish to make temporary changes to some of their benefit schemes where payroll deductions are in place. If you wish to do this, please contact either Sophie Brooks or HROperations@lsh.co.uk with your request and we will work through this with you. We may be also be able to offer short term “repayment windows” for some arrangements to support colleagues in the coming weeks.

LSH Reward remains open for you to review your current benefit basket and we have included some specific Q&A items around benefit schemes in the attached document.

For additional support on financial wellbeing, don’t forget that all colleagues also have access to the Neyber tool, which contains loads of information and tips on making sure you make the right financial decisions.

Of course, if you can’t find the information or answer that you are looking for, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at hroperations@lsh.co.uk

The Covid-19 situation has brought with it huge challenges for businesses, families, groups and individuals in how we manage our health and wellbeing and how we support each other and ourselves in maintaining good health.

The Government’s guidelines on social distancing and restrictions on leaving the home mean that we are all experiencing limitations to our activity levels and social interactions which are so important for our general health.  But help and support is at hand.  Above all, it is vitally important to stay connected to people, whether that is family, friends or colleagues and to call out if we are struggling with something.

In response to the ‘new normal’ of everyone being at home 90%+ of the time, recent weeks have seen a huge increase in online health and fitness resources – from celebrity fitness sessions to healthy recipe demonstrations and advice on how to keep your mind healthy.

We are publishing a selection of links to these resources here to support you through this period. If you stumble upon something that you think is great, please do share it so that we can open the opportunity to others.

In addition, we also continue to have our own support services available to everyone, including our Employee Assistance Program, LionHeart for RICS Members and their families and our Charity Partner, Mind.  Details of these are here for you to access.

During this period of restricted travel and social distancing, it may seem that learning and development would naturally grind to a halt. This is not the case.

Many training providers have already moved lots of their content online, and a number of them are also using conferencing technologies such as Zoom, Google Hangouts and others to run virtual training sessions over the web. Combine this with providers offering free access to some of their content through the lockdown period, and there is lots of opportunity to learn or update your skills over the coming weeks.

Of particular relevance to our industry is the approach to learning being taken by RICS, who have opened their CPD and ISurv tools to members for free during this period. Links to these tools are below, so please take advantage of them.

We are providing remote support to all of our APC graduates through their final preparation stages, hosting revision sessions, Q&A’s and mock interviews.  Alongside this, our apprentices are all able to continue the study elements of their courses online.

We will continue to publish links to interesting content and courses here, but if you see something that you think is worth sharing with your colleagues please do let us know.