Employee recognition is quickly becoming a key pillar of the employee experience and can have a powerful impact when it comes to boosting morale, supporting wellbeing and ensuring your people feel valued.
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- Human Resources
Is your organisation still running an annual employee survey? If so, there’s no better time to change things up. Nowadays, there’s a far superior way of eliciting useful information from employees that’s easier to keep track of and respond to, and it comes in the form of the humble pulse survey.
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- Human Resources
The concept of a ‘work-life balance’ has, for many, ceased to exist in recent times due to the increasingly blurred lines between home and work life. Though that doesn’t mean it must remain this way. Have you considered how your organisation can address this issue so that it successfully meets all employees’ needs both now and in the future?
The importance of work-life balance shouldn’t be underestimated, and, in theory, this highly sought-after ‘perfect equilibrium’ sounds great. However, in practice, it’s much harder to achieve for two key reasons.
First, the idea of ‘balance’ revolves around bringing one element up where, as a consequence, the other must, therefore, be going down. This might not necessarily be good for the latter of the two. Secondly, work-life balance means different things to different people, largely based on their individual personalities and expectations from work. So, what’s the answer?
Whilst in this instance one size certainly won’t fit all, we explore 5 ways HR can adopt alternative and more flexible approaches to support a diverse workforce as their needs evolve in the new working world.
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- Human Resources
The COVID-19 situation has forced us all to step into completely unknown territory, both in our personal and in our working lives. For HR, at the forefront of people management in their respective industries and organisations, supporting their workforce through this crisis has been quite a mantle to bear.
Though fortunately, in the modern-day of transformative technology and communication tools, there are plenty of ways to make life as an HR professional a little easier at this time.
We look at some of the key challenges HR departments may currently be facing, and how technology can better support them during a period when senior leaders and the wider workforce are looking to them to sustain the welfare of both their people and the business.
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- Human Resources
Now that the government has introduced strict measures to ensure as many workers as possible spend a period of self-isolation at home, organisations are turning to remote working to keep their business running as usual.
The most recent government guidelines for employers state that all businesses should encourage their staff to work from home wherever possible. The guidelines also detail the need to send employees home immediately if they develop any symptoms such as continuous coughing or a high temperature. This has already resulted in thousands of empty offices up and down the country, though it doesn’t mean that daily operations should be grinding to a halt.
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- Human Resources
Amid much uncertainty around the classification of certain professions as part of the coronavirus (COVID-19) response, the Department of Education has confirmed that payroll professionals are to be classed as key workers.
The confirmation comes following an urgent memo from the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) which states that payroll workers fall under the category of ‘utilities, communications and financial services’ and are therefore deemed essential as a frontline service.
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- Human Resources
For those taking their first steps into remote working, here’s some useful guidance to get you started. We’ll look at the pre-requisites to get you going, why communication channels are so important, what to do and what to avoid. Read on to find out more, plus extra hints and tips.
Until the data revolution arrived, management teams had to make complex business decisions mostly based on their intuition and judgement - but limited facts. Thankfully things have moved on and with the right data management and analysis tools, business leaders can make far more informed and confident decisions - still backed up by experience of course. But are HR professionals making the most of evidence and reporting to achieve better business outcomes?
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- Human Resources
As we go full steam ahead into a brand-new decade there has never been a better time to revolutionise your approach to in-house recruitment.
In the wake of a transformative 2019, where we witnessed significant technological changes in the realms of GDPR, AI and automation, there are now a multitude of tools and strategies to add to your recruitment arsenal, enabling you to drastically up your game when it comes to the candidate experience.
But what exactly are the key challenges facing in-house recruiters as we move into 2020, and how can you leverage the latest innovations to improve your talent acquisition strategies?
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- Human Resources
In recent years a paradigm shift has been taking place in the recruitment world and it pertains to how employers are hiring. The old-hat approach of simply screening candidates for skills and experience is rapidly becoming outdated.
But what’s now in favour?
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- Human Resources
