8th March 2019
Regardless of the industry, you look into, retaining top talent remains a high priority. Understandably, people with a large recruitment budget will always want to retain high performers. But then doing otherwise in this regard often leads to high employee turnover. And in such cases, the people in charge are usually left wondering what could […]
1st March 2019
Employee onboarding, the process of bringing in a new employee and turning them from a bemused stranger into an up-to-speed member of the team, is more important than people often realise. If it’s done poorly, it doesn’t just slow things down — it causes broad damage to how the employee perceives the company (as well […]
14th February 2019
When running a successful business, how your employee feels about coming to work each day directly correlates to the customer experience. According to statistics compiled by Blake Morgan, companies with highly engaged employees outperform their competitors by 147%, and companies that excel at customer experience have 1.5x more engaged employees than those companies that deliver […]
17th January 2019
Planning an office move is already a stressful task. There are a lot of factors to consider when you are planning an office move, especially when it comes to HR. There is a lot to plan and take into account. And this is without mentioning all the HR factors you will have to consider when […]
26th June 2018
Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin, one of the biggest superpowers in the world, said “train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to”. You’ve probably read thousands of articles, news headlines and Tweets about Millennials, or the ‘digital natives’. There’s a good chance you already employ […]
3rd September 2015
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released figures which shed light on the role of zero-hours contracts in the UK, demonstrating that there has been a 6% rise in there use over the last twelve months.
1st September 2015
Jobs search engine Adzuna has reported competition for jobs has hit a new low. With news that reflects the strengthening of the UK’s economy, Adzuna reported 0.64 job seekers for every job advertised in the month of 2015 when compared to 0.67 jobseekers for every job in June 2015 whilst there was close to double […]
27th August 2015
In the past HR professionals used to talk about job satisfaction, we’ve progress slightly from there to talk about employee engagement but whatever you want to call it you’re going to need to measure the impact of your engagement efforts. Historically most organisations did this once or twice a year through a survey an employee […]
19th August 2015
HR professionals have known for some time that being up to date with the latest thinking about the way the human brain works can provide some important insights into people management. However, with the ever increasing drive towards employee engagement to combat the effects of the employees’ changing attitudes towards employment, it’s even more essential […]
5th August 2015
All businesses want to keep hold of their employees, however employees will at some point move on and this can cause an administrative headache for some businesses. There are a number of different reasons for employees leaving a company, they could simply move on or retire, alternatively they could be made redundant, leave due to ill […]
4th August 2015
Alain de Botton, the Swiss philosopher, once said: “There is no such thing as a work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life”. It’s a great quotation. Much has been written about the importance of a work-life balance in today’s busy environment. Of course it’s true that to be a well-functioning human being, you […]
28th July 2015
The recent UK Job Market Report carried out by job website Adzuna suggests the average rate of pay in the North West has increased to over £30,000 in the last 12 months.
23rd July 2015
Productivity is often cited as a major issues facing the United Kingdom’s economy at the moment and the HR profession is ideally placed to collectively increase the productivity of the country so it’s welcome news that researchers at Leicester University believe they have discovered the secret to motivating male workers.
21st July 2015
Most of us have a target of the age we think we’ll be when we retire however recent research suggests more of us are uncertain about the age we’ll be when we come to retire.
20th July 2015
Too many managers and business owners around the UK still perceive HR as being a fluffy, with limited, if any impact on an organisations profitability.