Employee Benefit News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Employees in the office and working from home feel unsatisfied with a hybrid work model. Here's how employers can rethink their approach.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

With the Office for National Statistics (ONS) having released new data on UK productivity levels that show productivity remains sluggish, the impact of hybrid working models on productivity and employee well-being, especially in light of last year’s unprecedented spike in sick days, is an important issue.

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HR Digest

JUNE 5, 2023

The hybrid work culture, which encapsulates, the mix of both onsite and remote work, is proving popular with companies as well as employees. The pandemic forced companies to quickly adopt remote work as an integral part of their business continuity strategy. Collaboration was almost always done in person.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A new report from workplace consultancy Advanced Workplace Associates (AWA) suggests that organisations could introduce a licensing system to ensure employees have the conditions to deliver high performance and work safely, in a hybrid working model. days a week. According to the Health and Safety Executive, 36.8

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 22, 2024

Hybrid working has enabled UK businesses to cut energy usage by a fifth as they replace large city centre office space with smaller, more energy efficient spaces including flexible workspaces, according to a new report from IWG , whose brands including Spaces and Regus.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Hybrid working changes everything it seems. To make it work successfully we need changes in the way people need to be managed, trained and inducted. They want the world of work back where it was back in early 2020. It changes the needs for communication and social connectivity, goal setting and connection to vision.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2023

In an uncharacteristically Waddellian moment*, the Word of the Year for 2022 according to The Economist was ‘hybrid work’. Yet despite its ubiquity, in the comparative calm of social channels over the holiday period lurked claims that no-one knows what hybrid working is. Even though millions of people are doing it.

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With the emerging need and popularity of a hybrid work arrangement, many of you are definitely curious to learn about this drastic shift in work arrangement. You may be questioning what comprises a hybrid workforce in particular. Another section of employees works exclusively at a physical office.

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HR Lineup

JANUARY 15, 2024

The landscape of work has undergone a profound transformation in recent years, with the rise of remote work and the emergence of hybrid work models. Definition of Hybrid Work Model The hybrid work model is a flexible arrangement that combines both in-person and remote work.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 8, 2024

This could result from an ageing population and a drive to get older people back to work, and there could even be under-reportage because people are more likely to continue working with chronic conditions from home than if they have to commute. While this cuts down on absenteeism, it could create a major presenteeism problem.”

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

And in 2023, companies have been posting hybrid working related roles in record numbers, according to a new report from GlobalData. Sherla Sriprada, Business Fundamentals Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Post-COVID-19 job trends indicate a shift towards hybrid and flexible work models.

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Wellable

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The post Overcoming Proximity Bias In Hybrid Work Era appeared first on Wellable. Proximity bias: This unconscious preference for remote workers not only leads to unequal career opportunities but also impacts broader workplace dynamics.

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Fully remote workers can have a 54 percent lower carbon footprint compared with fully in-office workers, and all forms of remote and hybrid working have the potential to cut emissions, according to a new study from researcher at Cornell University and sponsored by Microsoft.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A new report claims that while 90 percent of businesses see the enablement of remote and hybrid working as having a positive impact on their bottom line, less than half (48 percent) of organisations strongly agree that employees have access to the technology they need to work well both at home, and in the office.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Working from home on a regular basis has become typical, not ad hoc or as required. Commuting five days a week to attend an office is no longer the norm and on the whole is no longer demanded – rather, we have seen organisations adopt hybrid working. More than just a building?

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 2, 2024

Around 91 percent of companies with a workforce that can work from home currently offer some form of hybrid working, according to a new poll of 500 HR professionals from Towergate Health & Protection. The poll also suggests that 30 percent of employees work from home for at least three days a week.

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Employee Benefits

AUGUST 10, 2023

More than three-quarters (77%) of small- and medium-sized organisations (SMEs) believe adopting flexible-working practices has made their business more profitable, according to research by hybrid-working firm IWG. The post 77% of SMEs say hybrid working has increased profitability appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 23, 2023

Over four in five (83 percent) HR professionals across the UK say that hybrid working is essential in attracting the best talent, according to a new survey from flexible workspace operator IWG. More than nine in ten HR professionals (92 percent) believe that hybrid working leads to happier, more loyal employees.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The latest findings from the CIPD’s People Profession 2023: UK and Ireland survey report, which surveyed 1,456 HR and workplace professionals across the UK, show that technology and hybrid working have had a significant impact on their roles and organisations.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Debrett’s, the well-known authority on manners and etiquette, has created a guide to hybrid working etiquette, sponsored by Poly. The guide claims to offer updated advice for the hybrid work era at a time when -it says here – etiquette at work has never been more important.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 15, 2023

New research has revealed the nuances in attitudes towards hybrid working and work-life balance in the UK and US. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the appeal of hybrid work is linked to the life and career stage of employees. Flexibility came in second place, chosen by 47 percent.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 18, 2023

European businesses continue to miss out on the full potential of hybrid working, according to a new survey from Ricoh Europe. Business leaders say that workers are, on average, 4 percent more productive in a hybrid culture, equivalent to an additional €113 billion to the European economy compared with pre-pandemic ways of working.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 23, 2023

British workers who come into the office every day to work now outnumber those who spend part of the week working from home, for the first time since the end of pandemic restrictions, according to a new survey from recruitment firm Hays. Fewer than one in five now work entirely remotely.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 24, 2023

The restrictions brought about by COVID-19 altered where we work and thus also how, when and through which channels we do work related activities. These changes radically altered the way previously office-based workers thought about ‘work’ as an activity.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 19, 2024

The era of hybrid working has driven many changes in the way people work. It takes advantage of remote work and AI to allow people to automate parts of their jobs, freeing them for side hustles and more free time. Hybrid working allows them to do this more easily when they are away from the office.

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Workplace Insight

AUGUST 14, 2023

Workers able to work remotely are still only coming into an office for an average of 1.75 AWA’s third Hybrid Index study suggests that organisations are responding to the shift to hybrid working by improving their desk use in offices and reducing their real estate needs. days a week, up from 1.45 days – and Asia – 1.8

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Workplace Insight

JULY 26, 2023

A poll of 3,000 workers in Europe and North America from Insights Learning & Development claims that managers of hybrid working teams see multiple benefits to a new working arrangement. Over a quarter (27 percent) fear they will be less visible working between home and office, therefore their contribution less valued.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 12, 2022

Flexible working is the new hybrid working as a third of European workers would decline a job if flexible hours were not offered. The nine-to-five is “all but dead in today’s working world”, the authors believe. That is the key claim of a new report from Owl Labs , a collaborative technology company.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A new report – ‘Hybrid Heaven or Hell? The journey to hybrid working’ from Poly and the Worktech Academy claims that organisations should carry out an audit to evaluate aspects of of their workplace culture and establish what works and what needs to evolve for hybrid working success.

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Many prominent surveys have shown that most employees want a permanently hybrid work environment – or at least more flexible workplaces. For employees, hybrid workplaces combine in-person work and telecommuting. For organizations, this shift brings many questions about how to manage the new hybrid workplace.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The report claims to provide empirical analysis into the impact that remote and hybrid working are having on employee experience, culture and productivity. In addition, employee engagement is 12 points higher if employees spend 3-4 days in the office compared to working exclusively or mostly from home.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Employers which have offered effective benefits packages to support employees with hybrid working are, for the first time, in with a chance of winning an accolade at the Employee Benefits Awards 2023. To see all the categories and start your entry, click here.

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Workplace innovators exploring the issues around hybrid work now have the opportunity to dig deep and find out. Tune into HubStar’s upcoming webinar on Thursday September 19th at 4 PM BST for an exploration of the approaches, strategies and tools necessary to rebuild social connection in complex hybrid workplaces.

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HR Digest

APRIL 17, 2023

We have seen all of these things happen even in recent times with the emergence of remote and hybrid work models. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work. Many companies have implemented hybrid work models, which offer employees the flexibility to work from home or in the office.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

One of the many important talking points of The Great Workplace Conversation and the widespread adoption of hybrid working over the past three years has been how we talk about change. They’d stopped going into work. It is taking place when the times and place of work are changing more than at any time in history.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 10, 2024

One such opportunity, in early 2020, was to seize the term “hybrid” and apply it to the world of work and place. He has been writing and teaching about ‘work’ for decades. Andy has both led, and participated in, research around the world, focused on Smarter and Flexible Working.

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