As a small business, you might wonder why you should bother with HR. But then as time goes by and your business, and people needs, grow, you may find yourself coming across more and more difficult employment situations. These could be easily...
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How do you deal with an employee that is continuously sick?
Employee absences are a normal part of HR, but it can become a pain when a member of staff is a repeat offender and keeps calling in sick. This is especially the case for small businesses. Here are the 5 key tips to deal with this appropriately:...
Get Ready for the World Cup
The Rugby World Cup has just kicked off in Japan and excitement is mounting around trying to predict the likely winner. Can anyone stop the All Blacks? How will the Northern Hemisphere teams’ performance fair against their Southern Hemisphere...
Change Management and Managing Change: Dealing with Challenging Behaviours
Change projects can often continue over weeks, sometimes even months. From an HR viewpoint, the focus of managing the change is on how the workforce is adapting to new working situations, new colleagues, and sometimes even a completely new...
An Employers Perspective: The BSI’s NEW Code of Practice to improve Health and Wellbeing for Staff
According to statistics that have been published by the HSE, there were 595,000 cases of work-related anxiety, depression, or stress in the 2017/18 period. This marked a prevalent rate of 1,800 affected individuals per 100,000 workers. As a result,...
Long Term Fatigue: The TATT Problem
Have you ever arrived at work, only to find that your employees are slacking, dozing off or even fast asleep in their chair? ‘Tired All the Time’, otherwise known as TATT, is often seen as a syndrome that is similar to chronic fatigue. It...
Five Ways to Improve Staff Wellbeing
As a business owner, one of the top priorities you should have is ensuring the wellbeing of your staff is at an optimum level. Doing this can help maintain productivity and guarantee the demands of the business are met. There are several ways you...
Job Roles That Can Help Utilise Your Transferable Skills After the Military
There’s a large misconception that there aren’t transferable skills that can help military personnel when they leave the service. Finding a career can appear difficult to some considering the how many of your years are dedicated to the service....