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Mental wellbeing at work is one of the biggest HR challenges facing businesses. This has never been more true than at the moment, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Research shows that over 16 million people experience a mental health problem each year....
Here’s a scenario. A very valuable member of staff has suffered a serious accident and has been off work for over a year. She is now ready to come back. She still has health problems but is mentally ready to return and has a good degree of...
July 2018 was the hottest on record in the UK. But many climate scientists believe that rather than being a one-off event, record-setting temperatures such as those that we had last year will become the norm. While the extent of the long-term...
Most business owners have clear goals to reduce their costs whilst improving the quality, and sometimes quantity, of work coming from their employees. In a competitive business climate, careful considerations need to be made when it comes to...
There is no denying that millennials are the largest of any other generation. Those born between 1980 and mid-nineties are considered to be millennials and they have been given a pretty bad reputation over the years. They are painted as be disloyal...
Work can be stressful for us all, whether it’s meeting deadlines or being thrown into the deep end on a big project, it’s rarely plain sailing no matter what industry you work in. Even though we all expect stress at work, it’s important that as...
To what extent do we hold ourselves accountable for our values? A young relative of mine was recently travelling on a bus when a group of laughing schoolkids, having finished drinking from a can, screwed up the can and threw it out of the window in...
In our recent blog article on vision and mission statements, we gave a few examples of the excellent ones from well-known brands. We talked about the way in which they live that vision and mission in their brand. We looked at how that has a...