Money Talk

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Credit card debt has been increasing, evidence that families are being stretched to pay bills. However, inertia keeps a lot of money still sitting in big “brick and mortar” banks, which have little incentive to increase their interest rates very much. There are increasing calls for government regulation.

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Achievers

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The new normal isn’t so new anymore, and its staying power is perhaps most evident in the many organizations that have adopted a hybrid work model. Hybrid work helps organizations and employees realize the benefits of remote work without sacrificing the familiarity and stability of traditional in-person workplaces.

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Achievers

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In the 7th annual Engagement and Retention Report from Achievers Workforce Institute, the number one reason employees gave for job hunting in 2024 is better compensation. The focus on compensation is new — historically career progression has been the top reason, and in 2023 work flexibility jumped to the top spot.

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Achievers

JUNE 19, 2023

But viewing employee productivity as a simple equation of how many tasks are performed over X hours or days won’t get you very far. Real insight into productivity — and how to improve it at your company — requires assessing harder to measure aspects of each employee’s work, accounting for their specific role and responsibilities.

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Achievers

JANUARY 22, 2023

Employees want more from their organizations and are voicing their need for their ideal employee experience in a purpose-led culture. To succeed today, the employee experience must remain a top focus – and the only way to thrive is to zero in on employee resilience, productivity, and retention.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 6, 2024

The widespread adoption of hybrid working has opened the door for women to apply for senior positions within their companies, according to a new report released ahead of International Women’s Day.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 14, 2024

According to the survey of 2,000 people from Techspace , there has been a ‘notable shift’ towards embracing structured office time, with Monday to Wednesday emerging as the top choices for in-office workdays. Full-time remote respondents who use coworking spaces for drop-in days are likely to influence this increase.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As we begin the run-up to Christmas, your staff’s stress levels can rise due to everything that comes with the season, whether it’s an increased workload, a lack of activity due to the dark nights and cold weather, or financial pressures from home.

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A recent State of the Global Workforce report found that stress levels at work are higher than ever before. In addition, a UK work-related report revealed that in Britain, 76% of employees reported medium-to-high levels of stress. million working days are lost annually in the UK due to work-related stress.

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Professionals Alternative

JUNE 12, 2023

Hybrid Work: The Future of Work that You Never Knew You Needed The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to adapt to new ways of working, and hybrid work has emerged as a popular work arrangement in the new normal. In this article, we will explore the rise of hybrid work and its benefits and challenges.

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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. One-time home office assessments are no longer sufficient. days a week.

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Just 7 percent of UK office workers back fully remote work, but eight in ten would like to see significant improvements to their company’s office and more support for flexible working, according to the Sony State of Offices Report 2023 [registration].

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Employee Benefits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The one thing that will boost workplace productivity within days It’s a common issue in today’s stretched workplaces. It’s a tricky balance to achieve, but there is one small thing that could transform your employees’ productivity – with almost instant results. So, what is this magic tool?

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, the average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. The Covid-19 pandemic saw the typical ‘workplace’ setting change for many people, after businesses around the globe were forced to adjust to a ‘work-from-home’ model. Today’s office space is more than just a ‘place of work’.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 8, 2024

Credit: Fida Olga/Shutterstock Need to know: The pandemic has greatly increased employers’ focus on chronic conditions. But it is beyond doubt that Covid-19 greatly increased the focus that employers place on chronic conditions. Listening to chronic condition sufferers is key. Long Covid, which last year accounted for 3.5%

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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. But what makes a workplace the most productive?

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 26, 2022

The number of employers who believe that an increase in homeworking and flexible working has increased their organisation’s productivity or efficiency has jumped significantly over the last year, according to new research from the CIPD.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 1, 2024

The UK’s ‘deskless’ workers feel considerably less valued at work than their desk-based colleagues. These are the findings from O.C. Ordever says, “It’s time to close the appreciation gap so that those employees who work away from a desk feel just as valued and recognised as the corporate, desk-based workforce.

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HR Digest

JULY 25, 2023

The 4 day work week is revolutionizing the work-life balance, and it’s happening all around the world. From Iceland to the United Kingdom, companies are testing out the idea of cutting the workweek to a mere 32 hours, with no reduction in pay. They started to take work home with them.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 19, 2023

The working-from-home debate was reignited this week following Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s comments that the office should be the default location for workers, unless they have good reason to work from home. Coincidentally, discussions over dinner with friends recently turned to this very topic.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 8, 2024

Focusing attention on your mobile phone instead of your partner doesn’t just strain your relationship – it also affects creativity at work, according to researchers from the Universities of Bath, Aston, and IESE Business School. However, the effect only works for women.

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Best Money Moves

JANUARY 9, 2023

This is a significant drop from the 6.0 What’s more, research shows that financial stress is debilitating to productivity. A company of just 50 employees will face a productivity loss of upwards of $87,000 due to individual employees’ financial stress and those numbers only increase along with the size of your organization.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 1, 2024

They do this by deviating from simple expected behaviours such as responding to rewards to work out what might happen. One of the inferences we can draw from this, apart from the way that an experimenter’s biases and presuppositions can distort their own research, is that people behave differently when they know they are being watched.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A study from Unispace claims that the majority of workplaces are not set up to enable staff to work to their best ability. Full findings can be found in Promoting workplace creativity and productivity [registration]. The modern workplace needs to strike a balance between enabling collaboration and individual work.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 13, 2024

Whether they choose to buy holiday or sign up for the organisation’s bikes-for-work scheme, staff value the flexibility of being able to access benefits when it suits them, explains Tanya Llewellyn, benefits manager at Centrica. “We We recognise the diverse nature of our workforce and provide benefits to suit different needs,” she says.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Financial wellbeing has a key role to play in supporting HR goals such as recruiting and retaining employees and improving productivity. This focus seems to be driving an increasing number of employers to take action to support workforce diversity. However, the factors influencing financial wellbeing strategies are changing.

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Best Money Moves

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A study from the Society for HR Management found that the quality of employee benefits was likely linked to happiness at work. Yet both benefits and job satisfaction were at historic lows in 2023, falling multiple percentage points from the previous year. Employee benefits are a driving force keeping your workforce satisfied.

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HR Lineup

MAY 1, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the landscape of work has undergone a significant transformation. Traditional office-based work setups have been challenged, leading to the emergence of hybrid work models. This includes outlining work hours, communication protocols, and performance metrics.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 25, 2024

New office footfall data from IWG taken from more than 400 locations across the UK, suggests that over the past two years workers have significantly increased their use of office workspaces in rural, suburban and commuter towns, choosing to forgo lengthy daily commutes and work closer to home.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Credit: patat / Shutterstock.com Retailer Marks and Spencer has announced pay increases and enhancements to its maternity, paternity and adoption policies. As part of an £89 million investment, from 1 April the rate of pay for its 40,000 UK customer assistants will increase from £10.90 rise from last year.

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HR Lineup

APRIL 21, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations worldwide to re-evaluate their traditional ways of working. Many organizations have had to quickly adapt to remote work models in order to ensure business continuity. In this article, we will discuss the benefits of a hybrid work model for organizations.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Skipping on travel costs and time, spending breaks talking to your loved ones, working at your own pace away from overly-regulted work environments, living away from the city life at a destination of your choice—the remote work impact has considerably soothed the wounds of hustle culture that used to tower over everything else .

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 11, 2024

Read on to discover five ways to manage workplace stress, helping reduce absenteeism and increase employee engagement. Personal circumstances are a significant cause, and your employees may be unable to leave them at home. Excessive workplace stress can reduce productivity, increase absenteeism, and lead to high employee turnover.

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2022

Nearly one-third of working Brits want to return to their offices this month (January) because they feel it would improve their mental health , according to new research. However, asked more generally about when their mental health was best, a higher proportion chose working at home (28%) than from an office (23%) or a hybrid of both (22%).

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HR Digest

APRIL 2, 2023

Remote work has been on the rise for several years now, although it was previously considered a form of luxury. As many companies have had to shift to working remotely due to social distancing measures, it has become clear that work from home is here to stay. What is remote work?

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Employee Benefits

AUGUST 15, 2023

Employee Benefits poll: One-third (35%) of organisations do not think that the recent Employment Relations ( Flexible Working ) Bill goes far enough to support working carers, according to a survey of Employee Benefits readers.

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