What does it really mean to sacrifice your salary?
Sleeping pods, treadmill desks and indoor ball pits are just some of the ways that big companies keep their employees engaged and help maintain a positive atmosphere.
| Published: 8 June 2016
Challenging the last workplace taboo
A leading North-east HR and employment law team is fighting the stigma of mental ill health in the workplace.
| Published: 8 June 2016
Wash your hands of behaviour change
Never has ‘to wash your hands’ of the problem been so apt. The clues to organisational behaviour can be found in the humble paper towel.
| Published: 8 June 2016
Bringing sexist dress codes to heel…
Recently, a company hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after the agency it used to supply reception staff, sent a female staff member home because she was refused to wear high heels.
| Published: 8 June 2016
Robots won’t take your job
There's currently a misleading rumour doing the rounds that suggests robots are going to take our jobs. We've been led to believe that the human race will be left to fend for itself in a dystopian future made up of dancing humanoids that can climb stairs and serve us Jägerbomb cocktails.
| Published: 8 June 2016
VUCA environments are prompting engagement with ‘vertical’ leadership development
The need to equip leaders with different perspectives to better lead and respond to change in a rapidly fluctuating, complex business environment is driving HR practitioners’ engagement with what is becoming known as ‘vertical development’.
| Published: 8 June 2016
How to prevent becoming victim of telecom fraud
Telecoms fraud costs UK SMEs about £1billion a year according to a survey conducted by Incom (2012).
| Published: 8 June 2016
Turning public health into a return on investment
With local councils gaining powers over business rates and public health spending, Dr Steve Boorman at Empactis explores the likely knock-on effects for businesses and how they can best benefit from the change.
| Published: 8 June 2016
Study gauges the effectiveness of mediation
Of course, workplace mediation can provide an efficient and effective route to conflict management, and could be used more widely as a means of enhancing employment relations.
| Published: 8 June 2016
Forget talent, focus on hard work
It’s still written on the whiteboard next to where my static bike lives. The previous night I was sitting at the dinner table, despondent, complaining about how hard it was to complete the training necessary to achieve my cycling ambition - to be the fastest tandem team from one end of the UK to the other.
| Published: 2 June 2016