According to data gathered by BUPA, around 1 in 40 workers experienced work-related stress in 2021 and approximately 18 million working days are lost each year due to stress. That’s...
Managing annual leave is a pain point for many SMEs. Who is responsible for calculating and tracking it? Who approves it and who decides how many employees can be on...
What is a staff appraisal? An appraisal is a way of assessing how an employee has performed over a period of time against their objectives. If objectives haven't been set,...
What is unauthorised absence? Unauthorised absence is when an employee fails to attend work without a valid reason or permission to be absent. It can also occur when an employee...
Can I contact an employee on sick leave? The short answer to "Can I contact an employee on sick leave?" will always be, it depends. The circumstances of the absence,...
If you type that question into a popular search engine it returns approximately 666,000,000 results in no time at all. So, are the HR team roles and responsibilities as complicated and...
According to Champion Health’s analysis of Google data, the search terms “introducing wellbeing at work” and “employee wellbeing platform” saw increases of 900% and 800% respectively in 2020 compared to...
First of all let’s make sure we know what time management actually is. As with many concepts and processes, a number of different definitions exist. Time management comes down to...
In the ongoing war for talent, many businesses are refusing to enter into the battle of who can offer the highest salary and instead, they are looking internally in order...
According to a survey by XpertHR the median cost to a business of sickness absence is £568 per employee, even if you only have 10 staff that amount quickly stacks...
