Absenteeism in the Legal Sector: Causes and Impacts
Absenteeism can be utterly devastating for productivity in the workplace. It doesn’t just affect the output of the absent employee, either. Their co-workers’ productivity is doomed to suffer as well. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, overtime is used to cover
The Importance of Trust at Work – 2: Trusting Your Bosses
What do romantic relationships have in common with the relationship between a working professional and their employer? They both have to be built on trust in order to run smoothly. Last week, we introduced our two-part series on trust in
Product Update: We’ve updated our employee engagement analytics package!
Whether it's our AI-powered sentiment analysis, data on recognition, targets for individuals or even Weekly10 usage behaviours across a business, our employee engagement analytics features are key to powering insights into both engagement and performance. And these tools are
Modernising performance reviews in law firms to improve professional development
Traditionally speaking, performance management and employee development are supposed to go hand-in-hand, with the former leading to the latter. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that the classic performance management processes such as annual reviews are failing to live up to that expectation. A
The Importance of Trust at Work – 1: Trusting Your Employees
Trust in the workplace is one of the major pillars of a thriving business. We place trust in our staff while they, hopefully, place theirs in us. Then at the end of everything is a customer, client, service user or
Is it time to look at the benefits of an effective performance appraisal for chambers?
A performance appraisal might not be the sort of thing that springs to mind when you think of chambers. As opposed to working in a top-down firm, chambers are clearly far less prescriptive in their day-to day running allowing barristers
The impact of parents not being able to ‘switch off’.
For the average employee, there’s often no greater feeling than turning off your work computer and saying goodbye to the avalanche of emails, Slack messages and Trello tasks at the end of the day. However, we all know too well
Why worry? Workplace stress and how to combat it.
Stress, much like with that weird mouldy patch on the ceiling tiles, is one of the fastest-growing issues in the workplace today. The World Health Organisation has declared stress ‘the health epidemic of the 21st Century’. An increasing body of
How to improve productivity at work in 2020 (and some tools to help)
Well, here we are, 2020 is upon us. No, I’m not sure how that happened either, it feels like just yesterday that we were sat worried about Y2K and all of a sudden, it's 20% of a century later. It’s