Technology such as the internet, mobile devices and high-speed remote connections means that many jobs are now routinely performed off-site.
Two national days of co-ordinated public sector strike action in the UK last year have contributed to the highest level of working days lost to industrial action since 1990, according to full-year...
Public sector management and workforces are working more flexibly than the private sector, both in terms of setting work policies and the communications tools they use, according to a poll of 1,000...
O2 today has launched the biggest flexible working initiative of its kind with a quarter of its UK workforce operating remotely for the day as the doors of its Slough base are shut and lights turned...
It is going to become increasingly difficult to pull the wool over the boss’s eyes and take a false sick day in the future, according to a report into absence management technology by Office...
While technology has changed the way we work, absence management procedures have not kept pace, creating serious welfare, management and productivity issues, according to the major report released...
With only six months until the London Olympic Games, research by recruitment consultants, Badenoch & Clark, has found employers remain unprepared for the expected surge in staff leave this summer.
Monday 16 January 2012 has been designated the most depressing day of the year – Blue Monday - but ‘workplace malaise’ could be costing businesses as much as £93 billion in lost productivity according...
Radical change to the way employers and HMRC handle pay slip data is fast approaching – but could lead to “a perfect storm” for employers according to tax experts.
A compassionate approach to absence management can have a “significant impact” on an employer’s reputation, according to the initial findings of a forthcoming report commissioned by Ellipse, the...
The introduction of Fit Notes was designed to end long-term sickness absence, but a new study has revealed time off has doubled.
Analysis by insurers Legal & General, using Department for Work and Pensions statistics, has shown that stress-related absences are nearly three times more likely to be taken by women than men.
