Reports have revealed that the Cabinet Office is monitoring staff computers and wifi logins in a bid to persuade them to return to the office, and it may lead other employers to think that they can...
Covid and high energy prices could create more issues in extreme cold, than extreme heat.
Now that offices have re-opened in the UK, there’s more opportunity for workers to divide their working day between home and HQ. In fact, research found that 54% of office workers intend to break up...
Digging deeper into the HR buzzword outcomes-based, this conversation with Philippa Bonay, director of people and business services at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), explores how to and...
When it comes to productivity and alignment, HR has turned to key result areas (KRAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and now objectives and key results (OKRs).
How many times have you, as a job applicant, quit the process because it was long-winded to complete? We engage in a straight-forward transaction only to find we have wandered into what feels like...
Following the fallout and panic of the pandemic, a new identity crisis has emerged in post-2020 life, as contagious as any virus: busyness. It consumes everyone, every day.
Real estate and transport and storage sectors have proved to be the most productive sectors in the UK by gross value added (GVA) to the economy.
Knowledge-based businesses have been evolving at pace, adjusting to our post-Brexit landscape, pandemic-enforced remote working and new hybrid working arrangements.
More than a quarter of UK workers have said that monitoring and surveillance at work has increased since Covid.
As an author of a best-selling book on writing emails, you might assume I’d be the Marie Kondo of email organisation. That only a couple of emails ever sit in my inbox (the ones that bring me joy, of...
The notion that we are living in an increasingly 'VUCA' world (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) is not a new one and we know that a key characteristic will be adaptability.
