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Great Ideas for Health and Wellbeing Perks in the Summer
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...
How can Employers tackle workplace burnout?
We all know what workplace burnout is intuitively, but pinning the concept down is easier said than done. The first academic attempt to do so was by Christina Maslach in 2001, who suggested that burnout was the interplay of a variety of emotional...
A Basic Guide for Managers: Addressing Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace
More and more employers are recognising the invaluable role that managers play when it comes to tackling mental wellbeing today. According to Mind, one in four people in the United Kingdom will experience a mental health problem each year. Not only...
How can Employers Create Strong Group Dynamic within the Workplace?
Group dynamics are vital to ensuring a business’ workforce has a high level of productivity and morale throughout each working day. As such every employer who wants their business to grow and succeed needs to acknowledge and address team dynamics...
How can you address Substance Abuse in your Workforce?
There is no denying that the workplace environment can be a very stressful one. Because of this, there are some people who turn to substances like drugs and alcohol in order to help them through the working day. Of course, there are also...
Presenteeism: Can Employee Dedication Go Too Far?
The term “presenteeism” was originally used to describe employees who come to work whilst they are physically or mentally unwell, rather than taking sickness absence to recover. Over time this term has evolved to include employees who are...
How A Small Business can Build a Scalable, Positive Workplace Culture
In the simplest of terms, the better your company culture is, the better your people will perform. A huge 91% of executives believe that improving their company’s culture would increase the company’s value. With the majority of today’s workforce...
How Can an Employer Identify Workplace Stresses?
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...
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Employment Law Changes for 2019: Things Employers Need to Know
As we proceed with pace into 2019, now would be a good time to look at the developments in employment law so you know what’s coming your way in the year ahead: Settled Status for EU workers As part of the government’s post-Brexit plans, European workers currently...
Top Tips: Setting up a Payroll
So you have taken the plunge and set up your own business and started employing people (see our other ‘top tips’ articles on how best to do this), now you will need to have the capability to pay them appropriately and meet your Pensions Automatic Enrolment...
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. However, there are...
Great North Run 2018
Director running in aid of St Barnabas Hospice Trust (Lincolnshire) It’s that time of year again when Adam Davey is donning his trainers on 9th September to run in the world’s largest half marathon, the Great North Run, for the 14th time. Having raised over £10,000...
Top Tips: Recruitment
Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your business and time-consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand: Pays you back in employee productivity, a successful employment relationship, and a...
Top Tips: Employment Contracts and Policies
Time flies from those early days when you set-up your business and take-on your first employee; but have you paused to think about whether you have appropriate governance and compliance in place around the employment issues facing you now and in the future? If the...
Get Ready for the World Cup
The World Cup kicks off in just a few days and as always, excitement is mounting around the trying to predict the likely winner, who’ll get the golden boot, what will be the outcome of the inevitable penalty shoot-out, etc. At work it can be great fun and create good...
Pensions Regulator begins spot checks in East Midlands to ensure Auto Enrolment compliance
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has begun carrying out spot checks across the East Midlands to make sure employers are complying with their pension duties. Inspection teams will visit dozens of businesses in the East Midlands this month to check employers are meeting...