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How to Support Employees Working from Home
During the current crisis many of us have had to adapt our working practices and approach to help us manage during lockdown. With many people working from home, some for the first-time, others for a prolonged period. What support does your...
The Statement of Employment Particulars – The Changes and What They Mean for Your Business
A written statement of employment particulars is an aspect of HR that must be fulfilled within the first moments of hiring new members of staff. Employees are legally entitled to receive this, and as of the 6th April 2020, this now must be given to...
Why Bother with HR as a Small Business?
If you were to invest in technology or machinery, you would utilise these to maximise their performance and return on investment. So, why should your people investment be any different? In your business, people will be one of you biggest monthly...
Benefits Cloud Connect
Over at our sister site, Benefits Cloud, we recognise the power of connectivity and communication throughout times of remote working and that’s why we’re now offering FREE access to our Benefits Cloud Standard Package to businesses for FOUR months....
Top 10 Tips for Working from Home
With many businesses now encouraging or even mandating that employees work from home, millions of people can expect to have their daily routines and work styles impacted. But not everyone is accustomed to working from home. Getting into...
IR35 ‘on-hold’ for 12 months
The Government last night announced they are postponing the reforms to the off-payroll working rules, also know as IR35, from 6 April 2020 to 6 April 2021. This is in light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak and was announced among a £330bn financial...
The Digital College and Petaurum Solutions offering Accredited Online Training
We’re thrilled to bring the Digital College on board with us and to offer their accredited online training courses on our website. These courses cover a broad range of subjects and support individual learners and organisation training needs. The...
Budget 2020: Coronavirus advice for HR and SMEs
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his 2020 Budget yesterday with a clear focus on Coronavirus and getting the country through the outbreak. One of his main focuses was on protecting employers and employees in the event of self-isolation and forced...
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How A Small Business can Build a Scalable, Positive Workplace Culture
The better your company culture is, the better your people will perform! This article discusses methods to create a scalable company culture.
Top Tips: Managing Change
Change…….to make or become different, to take or use another instead of, to give up or get rid of (something) in exchange for something else; an act or process through which something becomes different. Change means many different things in different situations. In...
Top Tips: Managing your People
Here are a few of our favourite pointers for good people management: Maintain Good Communication Employees want to be kept in the loop about ongoing projects, goals, and deadlines, so it’s essential that you communicate well with them and inform them about goings-on...
Top Tips: Pensions Auto Enrolment
It’s now been nearly six years since changes to the Pensions Act has required all companies, under Auto Enrolment, to provide workers with a Workplace Pension Scheme. Pensions Auto Enrolment represented a fundamental change in the way pensions are offered to...
What’s the Value in Values?
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 the path of a car...
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 counterparts? Who knows?...
Writing a Vision Statement
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 positive effect on...
Vision, Mission, Values and Culture – Does This Add Anything Meaningful to the Bottom Line?
An article in Forbes[1] last year, headed ‘The Importance of Having a Mission-Driven Company’ stated: “Employees who fall in love with their work experience higher productivity levels and engagement, and they express loyalty to the company as they remain longer,...
HR Strategy – How Do You Know It’s Working?
So far in this series we’ve written about what should go into an HR strategy and why, what HR levels of experience and expertise can help put together and implement the strategy, and the subject of implementation itself. The final subject is: How can you...
Now You Have Your Hare – Implementing the Strategy
In our recent article on how to put together a good HR Strategy, we mentioned the famous – infamous, even – quote from Mrs Beeton on how to make Jugged Hare: “First, catch your hare”. Next step, how to cook it. Or in HR terms, how do you put your strategy into action...