Employee experience: why less is more when it comes to HR policy
Why rigid and inflexible HR policies can actively damage your company culture.
The psychological pandemic: an opportunity for employers to aid recovery
Covid-19 has created an unprecedented mental health crisis for employees.
Financial wellbeing: five top tips to help your people through economic recovery
Helping employees take better care of their finances is a priority for 2021.
Why Covid-19 is a threat to women’s wellbeing at work
Women are facing greater financial insecurity, job losses and childcare duties due to the pandemic. How should employers address this?
Employee experience: looking after the mental health of customer-facing employees
Customer-facing employees are facing a mental health crisis. The time to act is now.
How to nurture the employee experience through continuous change
Over the coming years huge changes will continue to impact the employee experience. How can HR address this issue?
Is your financial wellbeing strategy up to date following the Covid-19 crisis?
In the Covid-19 climate, employers have a responsibility to help staff with money worries.
Two simple and cost-effective ways to improve employee wellbeing
Coronavirus has created an employee wellbeing challenge for employers, but is your company up to it?
Why you must not overlook financial wellbeing for older workers
Employers must get better at providing financial education for mature workers.
Four ways to support employee financial wellbeing during the coronavirus outbreak
As the UK focusses on delaying the spread of the coronavirus, many employees’ anxiety about the situation will be compounded by worrying about money. The impact the virus is having on the global economy and worry about having to take time off work means many employees will be concerned about the near future. At times […]
Why ignoring social responsibility will put your company at risk of irrelevancy
Something happened in the UK’s December general election that we hadn’t seen before. For the first time, serious efforts to tackle climate change and protect the environment were at the forefront of every party manifesto. More than two thirds of voters now believe that the Government should be doing more to protect the environment. Even […]
Financial wellbeing: Why 2020 should be the year that employers offer financial education
For almost 10 years, people like me have done a pretty good job of convincing employers that their employees’ money worries are having a significant effect on their work. Increased absence and presenteeism, reduced productivity and engagement, and an increase in mental health issues can all be linked to financial concerns. In 2018-2019… Worrying about […]
Employee feedback: are employers asking the right questions?
Is your employee survey focusing on the right things?
Financial wellbeing: the high cost of falling ill
Most of the focus when it comes to workplace financial wellbeing is unfortunately at point of crisis. Very little is being done to educate employees and help them build resilience to the knocks they will inevitably face in life. This is especially important when the three main areas of wellbeing collide. The cyclical relationship between […]
Financial wellbeing: why women are being left behind
There’s been a recent flurry of interest in the issue of financial wellbeing from many organisations, but no one is addressing the elephant in the room – the fact that women are at a huge disadvantage. Last month, the UK’s first female defence secretary, Penny Mordaunt launched the government’s roadmap to financially empower women. […]