With working from home now firmly established as the norm for many, how has this mega-trend impacted event planners and their events? How has it affected the appetite for getting together at events? Have organisers changed their approach? And have events become more important than ever to foster community among a fragmented and remote workforce? The answers to these questions…
read moreLone Konradsen, Agiito’s Head of Customer Insight, shares her insight in reviewing travel policies, do you free the bird or keep it caged? Life rarely gets simpler, especially for business travellers. The pandemic has changed almost everything, from how often we travel and by what mode of transport, to whether we travel at all. The travel manager’s remit is much…
read moreTim Baker, Director at ZEDRA discusses benefits, incentives and entitlements at today’s workplace. As if four-day weeks and work from anywhere were not enough, the array of benefits, incentives and entitlements on offer to employees around the world continues to expand. LinkedIn’s 2022 Global Talent Trends report found 60% of job seekers prioritise compensation and benefits when choosing a new…
read more59% of UK adults experience stress in the workplace but could business technology provide a means to help reduce this figure? The combination of technology and mental health can often have negative connotations. There is plenty of media attention surrounding the negative impact the former can have on the latter. In fact, there is research identifying that social media and…
read more‘Quiet quitting’ is not the issue, instead employers face a ‘creativity’ challenge, not employee apathy, as workers want more creative and fulfilling jobs. Only 4% of workers say they are doing the ‘bare minimum’ at work, suggesting that ‘quiet quitting’ is not the issue. A lack of purposeful and fulfilling work is to blame and 64% would find work more…
read moreA full-time employee will spend around a quarter of their time at work. When you take the weekend and time spent sleeping out of the equation, this increases to 50% of our waking hours Monday-Friday. For the vast majority, working is a necessity – we need to pay the bills and maintain a quality of life. But that’s not to…
read moreFriendly colleagues make an organisation a good place to work, new research by HR and payroll software provider Ciphr reveals. The research found out that most people (85%) can name at least three positive aspects that make the company that employs them a good place to work. Majority of people feel their employer provides a good place to work ‘Good…
read moreWith almost 7 million views on TikTok and counting, the ‘Quiet Quitting’ trend has taken social media by storm in recent weeks. Young employees, still dealing with the ongoing effects of the pandemic, are focusing on prioritising their work/life balance over impressing their employers. Quiet Quitting doesn’t refer to an employee leaving a role, but rather quitting the idea of…
read moreFor 57% of office workers can claim the new holiday mantra sun, sea and …spreadsheets as they plan to work from holiday destinations with Spain, Italy and France being the most popular choices. 88% of workers plan to ‘work from anywhere’ in the coming year, with 57% adding on time to their holiday this year to work from abroad 67%…
read moreBritish workers are in urgent need for more skills training as the skills gap widens research shows. 78 per cent of adults want to learn new skills whenever they can 11million (28 per cent) of Brits don’t feel properly trained to do their current job 59 per cent would be willing to learn in their own time if it would…
read morePA Life surveyed its readers to find out what EAs and PAs are looking for when it comes to flexible working post pandemic. Our new research reveals that most Assistants expect – and want – to continue working remotely at least part of the week. Below is the full survey onto Assistants working conditions. Read to the end to see…
read moreWorkers across the UK are using the cost of living crisis to negotiate better pay from their employers. Research from analytics company Visier discovered 21% of workers have threatened to hand in their notice due to cost of living concerns and attempted to improve their employment package. The majority of workers (58%) didn’t feel guilty about doing so. A quarter (25%) of…
read more“You couldn’t pay me enough to go back to five days!” Moving to a four-day working week has transformed the life of Web App Developer at search engine marketing agency, Marketing Signals, and young dad Jack Darracott. After the business transitioned to a four-day-week last month, Darracott has explained that he’s much happier now and is more productive while…
read moreMatt Ephgrave, MD at Just Eat for Business, discussed the results of his company’s recent survey about stress at work. Work-related stress has skyrocketed in recent years and data suggest that a huge 17.9 million working days were lost to stress, anxiety or depression in 2019/20. This not only highlights workplace stress’ sheer scale, but also that it was rife…
read moreA four-day working week pilot if set to launch on 1 June. But is it going to bring the benefits we hope for? It’s the date on which an estimated 3,000 employees from 60 businesses will begin a six-month trial of a four-day working week and change the work of work for most of us. Participating employees will cut their…
read moreMental Health Awareness Week highlights loneliness as one of the key themes and explores how to best support the mental health of employees who work remotely. By Tanya Woolf, Head of Psychological Services at Onebright. What steps can business leaders take in order to better support their workforce? Remote working has brought greater challenges, loneliness being one. With Mental Health…
read moreTechnology is one of the areas where advancement and new development takes place at an impressive speed. Whether it’s self-driving vehicles or the sophisticated mobile phones with new features added with each release, the world we live in now is increasingly futuristic. Younger generations may be very excited about the constant growth in innovation as they have grown up handling…
read moreAfter nearly two years of adjusting to working from home, we’re starting to see a drive for employees to return to offices. In fact, occupancy levels recently hit a high of 27.5%, the highest since COVID first began spreading in March 2020. Although businesses may continue to encourage their workers to return to offices, many of them have found a more hybrid…
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