Can the office pay in 2025?
Pre-pandemic office setups will be a poor investment for organisations in 2025. Employers looking to encourage more in-person working should consider redesigning their workspaces to offer amenity-rich and purpose-led environments.
Why financial wellbeing in 2025 will reclaim the spotlight
At the start of every year, Gethin Nadin explores the latest trends, research findings and employee benefit strategies to help guide your financial wellbeing approach. Here’s what you need to know for 2025.
Your survival guide: Seven strategies to prevent HR burnout in 2025
Seven research-backed strategies to help you prevent and combat HR burnout while fostering resilience and wellbeing in 2025.
The lost art of team building
Have we forgotten the importance of team-building in our haste to ‘get things done’?
Workaholism, health and strategies to break away from unhealthy patterns
Workaholism has severe implications for a person’s health and wellbeing and has a high risk of resulting in burnout.
Workplace wellbeing: Stop focusing on individual ‘fixes’ and address the elephant in the room
Most workplace wellbeing solutions put the onus on employees to ‘fix’ their stress levels, but what about the organisation’s responsibility?
UK employers face regulatory pressure: A holistic response is the only answer
Change is on the horizon for UK employers, and box-ticking will not suffice in the shifting regulatory landscape. Workplace expert Samantha Mangwana outlines two specific examples of how to, instead, take holistic action.
Difficult colleagues: Relationships with people who act badly
We all come across ‘difficult’ people at work. Some may simply have different motives, while others appear quite intractable. Quentin Millington of Marble Brook examines how to chip away at even the most stubborn problem, to secure cooperation and strengthen a relationship.
Covert AI: How to tackle secret GenAI use at work
Your employees are using AI at work, whether or not you ‘allow’ them to. To tackle covert AI use, Alan Price urges employers to shift from resistance to purposeful adoption.
Next-level relationships: Reset the balance between burnt-out employees and coasting colleagues
How can leaders build transparent, inclusive, adult-to-adult relationships with their teams? How can they re-set the balance between overworked employees and their coasting colleagues? Culture expert Ella Overshott shares tips and candid opinion on building next-level relationships.
Difficult colleagues: Relationships with people who think differently
Struggling to work with difficult people? Quentin Millington of Marble Brook explores the Strengths Deployment Inventory and why the problem so often lies in a clash of motives rather than toxic behaviours.
Winter blues: Protecting mental health as the seasons change
Embrace the winter months ahead with practical tips and a cosy mindset. Nick Elston shares a guide to staying mentally strong and thriving through the seasonal shift.
Implications of ‘Hushed Hybrid’
Employers may be encouraging more days in the workplace, but some workers might be ignoring the official policy.
How to master personal workflows in a collaborative workplace
Collaborative demands can quickly overwhelm well-intentioned colleagues. Using the practice of ‘Head Heart Hand’ helps build your capacity to get work done.
Lessons from LEGO – what brought them back from the brink
In 2003 LEGO was on the verge of bankruptcy. Twenty years later it is still smashing double-figure growth. Ella Overshott shares how their purpose and culture drive transformed LEGO and underpins their success today.
Asda follows Next’s pay equity battle: The claims shaking up retail
Employment partner Jon Heuvel examines recent equal pay cases, in light of Asda recently hitting the headlines for its own.
Labour’s Menopause Action Plan: Why small companies should keep up or get left behind
Under Labour’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’, firms with 250+ staff will soon need to produce Menopause Action Plans. But should smaller companies follow suit?
Will you let them fire the doorman?
Human experiences are under threat from our obsessions with efficiency, cost, and, now, AI. As the world becomes lost in these imperatives, HR must step up and work across the boardroom to show how the doorman exists not merely to open doors, but to create value that lasts.
Are organisational values a waste of time?
Andrew Loveless from Pecan Partnership explores why values are so crucial to a successful organisation in a way that cuts out all the waffle and gets to the point…
How to strengthen cross-company collaboration
Helping your employees to join the dots across teams, priorities and decisions can eliminate silos and unlock value from stronger synergy.