Employees’ expectations and priorities have changed drastically following the pandemic. 2021 saw a big upsurge in resignations and the year has been named aptly the year of the “Great Resignation” and one in four workers are now considering changing their jobs. Employee resignations have therefore become one of the biggest concerns to employers today. They […]

Does your workplace offer a respectful culture for supporting employees’ personal problems and matters of contention? By Kate Warburton The writer Annie Dillard famously said “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”, and for many of us, a large portion of our day is spent at work; in fact, […]

Mental 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 […]

Staff retention and the overall performance of businesses are not improved by management spying on the employee, so replace it with good management, says ActiveOps. Spying is on the up and webcam monitoring has more than doubled according to recent research covering a third of UK workers. Bosses and business owners are using surveillance tools […]

Ahead of the Pride celebration in June, it’s a good time to look at Pronouns and why getting it right matters. By Joanne Lockwood, founder and CEO of SEE Change Happen and a Diversity & Inclusion Specialist and also promotes Transgender Awareness to organisations. If a pronoun is quite simply a way to refer to […]

Office working is back, yet people are still working remotely. In some instances, this can be more practical. But with 1 in 5 Brits wanting to work remotely full-time, have workers become too comfortable in their own homes? What can help bring employees back into the office? Biophilic design in offices, which in short means […]

Women in the UK blame increased stress at work for the reason they are likely to be leaving their jobs within the next two year. Nearly half (47%) of the women reported considering quitting their jobs due to stress. This is just one of the alarming UK-findings from Deloitte’s latest UK report ‘Women@Work’.  The study […]

Mental Health Awareness Week is 9th-15th May. It’s a good reminder for all of us to think about mental wellbeing at work. Does your team need a mental wellness experience that’ll make a real difference? Virtually Together can help with their extensive range of mental wellness and mindful workshops which are delivered by trained specialists […]

Making office days the best days of the week requires a serious look at your lunch offerings to start with. Supper for Business is very excited to announce the launch of  Yolk food delivery service to their business customers in London. A food delivery service with a fantastic choice of tasty and nutritious dishes is available […]

Support for the LTGBQ+ community at work is insufficient according to new research from Peppy, the digital health platform. A third (33%) of employers surveyed confirm this in the survey results. Sixty-three per cent of employers think that it can be hard to get senior management to buy in to benefits that do not support […]

New research has highlighted the value of functional design and the impact well-designed workspaces have on employee wellbeing, engagement, and productivity. More than half (54%) of office workers say that, despite the rise in home working over the last two years, their current work-from-home set up still falls short of office amenities compared to their […]

By Amie Crowther-Bali, HR Co-Ordinator, ZEDRA… Reducing the working week to four days rather than five could be a great benefit for employees and is something that is currently being trialled throughout dozens of companies in the UK. The trial is spearheaded by the 4 Day Week campaign and run by researchers at Cambridge and […]

Businesses can fuel their post-pandemic growth by implementing a four-day week working model, according to the experience of one technology consultancy. London tech recruitment consultant THRYVE has reported a 31.9 per cent boost in sales since introducing a shorter working week in 2021. At the same time, customer satisfaction ratings based on service quality and […]

Digital health platform Peppy has analysed Google search data to determine the most frequently Googled queries relating to menopause and the workplace during 2021. The findings reflect that employees are looking for support, and this presents an opportunity for employers to offer it. The most frequently searched-for term relating to menopause and work is ‘menopause […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has made us all much more aware of our health and how best to protect ourselves from serious illness by looking after our mental and physical wellbeing. Heart disease is one of the most widespread health problems. Around 1.4 million people in the UK have survived a heart attack, while heart and […]

While digital technology has kept us safe during the pandemic, for millions of people, working from home has felt more like sleeping in the office, making it harder to fully switch off. The right to disconnect has been law for six years in France, where companies are asked to set agreed ‘specific hours for ‘teleworkers. […]

The UK offers one of the best work-life balances in the world according to a new study by office designers, Diamond Interiors, with typical British office workers getting among the best deals when it comes to working hours and annual leave allocations. Exploring the typical work-life of employees both pre and during the pandemic, the study […]

With all that has happened in the last couple of years, it is fair to say that our lives have been completely overturned. If commuting to the office every morning used to be the norm, more and more employees are now working from their bedroom, kitchen table or home office on a regular basis. This […]