If you’re one of the many HR managers expecting to have a proportion of their employees working from home permanently for the foreseeable future, you need to take a fresh look at the benefits packages offered. No longer being part of an office-based team is a dramatic change in working circumstances and some of the benefits offered previously as standard may no longer be suitable. It’s time to think creatively about employee benefits for 2021 and beyond.
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- Human Resources
It seems a little bit of an understatement to say that last year was an incredibly unsettling one for many people and here at Access EarlyPay we've been seeing the results of that.
Access EarlyPay gives employees access to their earned income on-demand, meaning that people have ready access to the cash they have earned, without having to wait until the end of the month.
This means that we have seen the peaks and troughs of 2020 manifest themselves in the different times that people call on their cash and the amount they need.
We’ve created a ‘Review of the Year’ infographic for you to discover the power of on-demand pay, and indeed how useful our users found it throughout 2020. Click below to view it now!
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- Human Resources
There can’t be many managers that haven’t pondered the nature of productivity and searched for a way to increase it in their team.
High productivity is the holy grail for many companies and so we thought we’d curate a list of our favourite productivity-enhancing tips.
Some cost money, some are free but all will increase productivity at your company and may even make people happier.
The great thing is that you don’t need to rely on anyone else to adopt many of these tips so whether you work in a global concern or you are a one-person band, dive in and have a go.
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- Human Resources
The personal finance landscape has changed massively since the beginning of covid with people needing to find ways to cope with multiple lockdowns and dramatic shifts in their lifestyle.
Across the UK we have seen employees dealing with reduced hours, home working and even redundancy and so it is no surprise that there has been a knock-on effect on people’s personal finances. In fact, more than 14.9m people have seen a negative shift in their personal financial situation according to debt charity StepChange.
In this post, we’re looking at the challenges that people have had to face due to COVID and the ways that the personal finance landscape has changed as a result.
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- Human Resources
Before Covid-19 struck, nobody had dreamed of the turn that life would take during the pandemic. Remote-working was a rare nice-to-have and not what anyone would have considered “the new normal”. Of course, there are key workers who do not have the luxury of working from home, but a vast majority of the workforce does not fall into that category.
- Topic:
- Finance
Since the start of academisation around a decade ago, the topic of ‘centralisation’ has sparked a range of opinions from across the sector.
Despite the initial concern, many teaching and non-teaching staff have now become advocates of shared service teams, viewing them as an effective way of improving standards and increasing efficiencies – providing the right tech systems are in place.
- Topic:
- Education
“If employee engagement is the short-term adrenaline shot, then employee experience is the long-term redesign of the organisation.” - Jacob Morgan, author of The Employee Experience Advantage.
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- Human Resources
Let’s face it, we all need downtime. Though this has never been truer than in the past few months where life, in all aspects, has been somewhat extraordinary. Conversely, if you’ve noticed an ‘always on’ culture creeping into your organisation - particularly amongst your remote workers - there’s no time like the present to nip this in the bud and encourage your employees to take up some healthier habits.
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- Human Resources
Over the past month or so, many companies have been exploring the ways that technology can support our new normal, and one of the big focuses for many employers has been ensuring the wellbeing of their remote workforce.
Employee wellbeing has increasingly been top of the agenda for many HR leaders, even before COVID-19, however traditional wellbeing strategies have focused on tackling the symptoms of stress, rather than the root causes. We discuss how technology can help tackle one of the biggest root causes of stress and support financial wellbeing...
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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.
