Increasing employee engagement isn’t just a checkbox exercise for HR; it’s a long-term strategy that is crucial to business growth. more»

The first Monday in February is the day when employees are most likely to call in sick. Otherwise known as National Sickie Day, it hampers productivity and piles on the workload for remaining staff members. more»

Once you get the energy for a workforce right, then it is not long before the extraordinary happens within a business. But the converse is also true: dysfunctional energy can manifest itself in some truly terrible symptoms. more»

The bottomless beer taps and endless supply of caffeine that shared spaces such as WeWork offered set the barometer to which we now rate office space. Now employees have gotten picky about there work environment. So Disguising a kettle and store brand rich-tea biscuits as a "perk" will no longer entice an office team. As employees standards raise, you might feel the pressure to buckle and fold- impulsively signing a lease in a contemporary forth four lot, but before you rush in you must way out the pros and cons, because all that glimmers in these modern spaces is not gold. more»

Dealing with an incompetent employee is one thing, more than that it’s straightforward. If there’s proven evidence they’re unable to perform the tasks required of them, ultimately they will be […] more»

One of the many pressures employers juggle is keeping up good company morale. Often, it’s easy to blame a slump in employee productivity on their own personal issues. However, you […] more»

No one breezes through life without experiencing some level of anxiety. In the workplace, 60% of all working days lost to illness are in fact, a result of stress. Employers […] more»

Your team are the driving force behind your business, so it’s vital you look after their health and well-being to ensure their happiness and productivity. Although many companies focus on […] more»

The government is being urged to bring in a new "Productivity Allowance" to help drag the UK out of a "lost decade" of economic woes. more»

Small business owners are under pressure to make every customer count, and data is a key way of doing just that. more»