Love is in Air (Conditioning Unit): Office Romances and How to Manage Them.
Grab your dozen luxury red roses, Barry White mix-tape and let your inner Keats or Byron free because things are about to get
Flexible working arrangements and why employees want them
Working flexibly; once it was just part of a job description for Cirque du Soleil performers, but now it’s becoming an increasingly vital component of modern workplace life. While it isn’t a new idea by any stretch, flexible working arrangements
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
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
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
Weekly10 Top 10: How to boost employee engagement in 2020 (and beyond)
‘How to improve employee engagement’ is arguably the HR conundrum of the 2010’s, or certainly the latter half. It has been the focus of many a research report, seminar, Op-ed or blog (such as this one I prepared earlier!). And no wonder with
Do employee perks actually work or is it all a fad?
Google have always been innovators. I don’ think that can be argued, can it? Be it search engine technologies, mapping services, digital assistants or self-driving cars, for the last 20 or so years, they have led the way. They were
What are the benefits and drawbacks of a four-day working week?
Well, that’s it, the end of General Election week here in the UK, and no matter where you stand on the results (#MonsterRavingLoon4Life) it’s fair to say one of the really eye-catching campaign pledges made by one of the big
How Important is Feedback in the Workplace to the Success of Business?
Timely, honest and two-way feedback is absolutely key to the performance, career progression and engagement of your employees. Here, our Head of People Science, Chris, looks at some of the reasons why. Imagine this scenario; you are driving to an