If retail businesses are going to survive and thrive in retail’s “new normal”, empowerment and career development of frontline staff must be at the heart of their recovery roadmap, according to the latest report ‘Building a resilient workforce for the retail revival’
| Published: 6 August 2020
Latest data shows the significant impact Covid-19 has had on hiring
| Published: 6 August 2020
Guidant Global outlines the four steps to workforce planning post-Covid
| Published: 5 August 2020
In the next in our series of Covid-19 interviews with Senior HR Leaders, our Founder & Managing Director, Peter Banks, talks directly to David Blackburn, Chief People Officer, Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) – an organisation that was set up to protect customers of financial services firms that have failed.
| Published: 4 August 2020
50% of staff in the UK are already considering seeking new employment, therefore businesses must adapt quickly and significantly to ensure that their workforce are receiving the support they need,” he continued.
| Published: 3 August 2020
A study of 500 office-based temporary workers, conducted by Office Angels, part of the Adecco Group UK&I, has found that measures taken by the Government to support temporary workers have overall been successful. However, almost all (80%) of Generation Z temporary workers reporting they don’t think the Government provided enough support.
| Published: 3 August 2020
The fear of redundancy has spiked during the pandemic. Leaders need to find ways of alleviating these fears because scared employees do not perform well.
| Published: 2 August 2020
Professional vacancies in the capital increased 14% month-on-month in June, indicating that London’s businesses are slowly starting to re-hire as lockdown measures continue to ease.
| Published: 2 August 2020
According to a major new industry survey “What Will Your Contact Centre Be Like Post Lockdown?”, 77% of contact centres had 50% or more of their employees working from home during the current Covid-19 crisis with 62% stating that, if there was a second wave, they needed to understand how to do homeworking better.
| Published: 1 August 2020
Insuretech start-up, Equipsme, has reached over £700,000 in crowdfunding through CrowdCube, beating their initial target of £500,000.
| Published: 30 July 2020
