With school summer holidays underway and employees looking forward to a well-deserved break, businesses are faced with the challenge of negotiating their team’s summer breaks with the minimum amount of disruption. Claire Ward, HR expert and founder of HR subscription service thehrhub.co.uk gives the following advice to businesses and those responsible for HR on managing the summer […]

As we hit the UK summer holidays, travel search engine momondo.co.uk now reveals that 9% of its users don’t search for a specific destination, but rather search for flights to entire countries or regions. Many simply don’t know specifically where they want to travel. One in 10 of us don’t know where we want to […]

The trend of working too many hours and not using allotted annual leave isn’t specific to the UK. New research by Project: Time Off shows our counterparts across the pond left 658 million days of holiday unused in 2015, 222 million of which were lost in the ether. Project: Time Off has put that number […]

Three quarters of British parents will have to split their leave this summer and one in 10 will be forced to go away without their partner, according to research from Nationwide Savings. On the build up to the school summer holidays, Nationwide’s third national survey of 2,000 working parents reveals the many struggles they face […]

There are people who leave their mobile at home when they go on holiday and those who ask for the wifi code the minute they check into the hotel. The latter are the ones who never truly relax during their time away. So here are some tips from Katie Driver at The Telegraph on how […]

It was branded a recession-fuelled flash in the pan, but the British seaside staycation is very much here to stay, according to travel experts. The smell of fish and chips on the promenade, the sight of striped deckchairs on the beach and the sound of seagulls soaring in the sky above all conjure up nostalgic […]