A new report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and Simply Health, has highlighted that nearly two-fifths of UK businesses have seen an increase in stress related absence over the last year, with…
How Employee Engagement Technology is Helping to Solve…
By Geraldine Osman, CMO, StaffConnect With its sights set on delivering 2,000 homes by 2020 and 5,000 homes in the next five years, ilke Homes has high ambitions to help with the UK’s affordable housing…
Top HR metrics for 2019
With data and analytics still at the top of the HR agenda for 2019, analysis from XpertHR Benchmarking reveals the key metrics for HR to focus on. Evidence-based decision making is likely to become a…
19.5% increase in workplace absences as UK employees…
Employees turning up to work is a vital part of any business functioning properly, however, whilst most of us will be disappointed to not be enjoying the irregularly warm February weather. HR software provider, BrightHR…
National Sickie Day – a reminder for Employers…
Today has been dubbed, ‘National Sickie Day’ with UK employers are braced for employees to call in sick, as it is more likely today than any other day of the year. Employment law experts, the…
Most sick days taken in November, not National Sickie…
National Sickie Day and Blue Monday can’t compete with a pre-Christmas Monday for staff calling in sick, according to new research from e-days. The data, taken from a subset of 500 employers using e-days’ absence management system,…
Shortening the odds: time to make smarter recruitment…
Tom Viggers, director, pymetrics EMEA, discusses why recruiters could learn a thing or two from the World of Poker If you haven’t heard of Daniel Negreanu, I recommend looking him up on YouTube. Daniel is…
Managed 24/7 appointed by CIPD to deliver transformative,…
Managed 24/7, the award-winning managed service provider, has been appointed by the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) to deliver a single IT hosting solution including hosting, communications, backup and support for its global…
Why introducing flexible working could boost your business…
The four-day working week is something many employees would welcome, but companies can be concerned about how it would work in practice. New research by consultancy firm Kin&Co[i] found that just 48% of businesses think…