Creating a staff rota for your business can be a real headache. It may seem like a simple task but in reality, it can prove incredibly challenging to get your...
According to data collected by the ONS, an estimated 149.3 million working days were lost in 2021 in the UK due to staff absence. This works out at around 4.6...
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...
