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Remote working in the post-pandemic world
The global pandemic has caused millions of workers to transform into remote employees in the blink of an eye. With little warning, employees said goodbye to their comfortable desks and settled onto kitchen counters, coffee tables and garden furniture. Frankly, if...
Non-essential retailers can reopen in June
All non-essential retail stores in England will be able to reopen from 15 June, provided they can adhere to new guidelines to protect workers and customers. Announcing the move yesterday evening (25 May), Boris Johnson said: “I want people to be confident that they...
Statutory sick pay refund scheme for small/medium sized employers
The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers’ Liabilities) Regulations 2020 come into force from 26 May 2020. The Regulations provide for eligible small and medium-size employers to apply to HMRC for a refund of the cost of paying SSP to their employees,...
Engaging leaders are needed to steer organisations through the Coronavirus pandemic and into the ‘new normal’, but what are the traits that define them?
Never has there been a greater need for the ‘Engaging Leader’ than in the current crisis and the ‘brave new world’ that will follow. With only six out of ten employees in the UK reporting that they were engaged effectively before Coronavirus though, it is particularly...
New normal, new way of working… new language for remote working
Okr Is The Language Remote Teams Must Speak To Succeed Across organizations worldwide, the Corona pandemic has radically changed the way teams work together. Numerous companies had to transition to remote working within only a few days. For many teams and their...
Concerns of ongoing financial crisis must be confronted now
A survey by fintech Smarterly has found that 90% of employers agreed that financial worries had a negative impact on an employee’s mental health, while 87% also attributed financial woes to having an adverse impact on an employees’ performance. While this is...
50 years since Equal Pay Act: 29,000 claims made for gender pay discrimination still being made every year
The 1970 act enshrined the legal principle that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. A large number of workers are claiming their employers are illegally paying them less than colleagues in similar roles, according to research released as the Equal...
Guide to a new way of managing sickness and absence, now and post crisis
As employees settle into a new way of working, shifting tasks online and logging into video calls, they are also looking to their Human Resource (HR) teams to help them through this very stressful time. With widespread homeworking sweeping the country, the Advisory,...
7.7 million hours of learning content consumed in April says LinkedIn
As people continue to adapt to working from home or see their employment circumstances change, many are dedicating more time to learning new skills, according to LinkedIn - the world’s largest professional network Globally, people spent 7.7 million hours tuning into...
13 million brits to request permanent flexible working once lockdown is lifted
More than 13 million people across the UK plan to ask their employer for changes to their long-term working pattern once the current coronavirus pandemic has subsided, reveals new research from Direct Line Life Insurance 44 per cent of workers plan to ask for...
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