Over three thousand workers, 60 companies and seven months - I don’t think anyone would have predicted that the UK would not just witness, but positively embrace the biggest trial of the four-day...
This is a challenging time for businesses. The number of business closures in the UK last quarter was 137,210 – 23% more than the same period in 2021 and higher than any quarter since 2017.
Job vacancies in the UK soared to a record of 1.3 million in March to May this year and research from The Open University's Business Barometer has found staff are taking on extra work as a result of...
The government has introduced new legislation allowing medical professionals other than GPs to provide fit notes for sick workers if they are unable to work.
Many businesses are now experimenting with a four-day week, but a nine-day fortnight may be a more viable alternative for some.
The government's draft Mental Health Bill has been criticised for its lack of impact on workplace mental health.
For World Wellbeing Week, employers are being urged to make wellbeing as important as health and safety.
An employee with long Covid has won an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal, becoming the first person to successfully claim that the condition should be classed as a disability.
Just 9% of men and 16% of women can expect to reach retirement in good health.
Some of you reading this will no doubt have been discussing hybrid working with your clients or colleagues. If you have, then maybe you’ve experienced some extremes in thinking, with different groups...
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.
The last two years have taken their toll on almost all of us. From the isolation of Covid-19 lockdowns to the current cost of living crisis and war in Ukraine, everyone’s mental wellbeing will have...