5 steps to support mental wellbeing in the workplace

I am David Brudö, CEO and Co-Founder of personal development and mental wellbeing app Remente. I first started my own business in e-commerce a few years ago, but as much joy as you get from running your own business, it can be stressful and demanding My work was all-consuming and I wasn’t prepared for the […]

A personal story of reaching breaking at work

David Brudö is co-founder of mental health app Remente. Having spent almost my whole professional career as an entrepreneur in a high work pace environment – where the only certainty is that you don’t know what tomorrow holds – I felt that at one point something started to really feel wrong. I began lacking motivation […]

Internal comms: lessons from the ad industry

Muse is a new online service from Woodreed designed to solve the business challenges HR, engagement and internal communications professionals tell us they face. Accessed online via PC, mobile or tablet, it’s a combination of three services designed to improve the quality and effectiveness of internal communication. Click here to find out more. Would you let your […]

How to hang onto female talent – the problem of the ‘pinched middle’

For over 100 years International Women’s Day has celebrated the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, but today has also been used as a call to action for accelerating gender parity in the workplace, across all industry sectors, throughout the world. Like many other industries, management consultancies are struggling to retain women and […]

The myth of the male versus female brain

On International Women’s Day it seemed fitting to share some new science on the male and female brain. There is a common belief that men and women have different brains but a recent meta-analysis is calling this belief into question. A meta-analysis is a statistical approach for combining the results of multiple studies, in this […]

“The wellbeing field is so fast changing that there is always something new & interesting to discuss.”

We're always curious to hear how our members and contributors tackle the challenges that the ever-changing world of HR throws at them. We've got a wealth of experience and knowledge across the site, and what better way to showcase the diversity of our community than to get them to walk us throw an average day?  […]

How an effective EAP can help you anytime, anywhere

One in four adults in the UK are diagnosed with at least one mental health problem each year. This statistic may be surprising, but it has caused organisations to care more about mental health in the workplace. With stress levels rising amongst UK workers, organisations have a responsibility to look after their staff and this is where […]

Three examples of organisational failure to give up the illusion of control

Just like every year on Christmas Eve, a portly, white-bearded and red-garmented man delivered gifts to all the good children in the world, with only the help of some reindeer and a few elves. Even if the reindeer could actually fly and if you corrected for all the different time zones, admittedly, it sounds incredible. […]

Control in times of uncertainty: how can you combat change fatigue?

Organisations are under increasing pressure to be more agile, competitive and customer focused, and a key role of HR is to support them through the process of change. Although change is essential, there is evidence that around 70% of all organisational change initiatives fail. In many cases, failure is exacerbated by employees’ mistrust of changes […]

What makes the Japanese railways so efficient?

It was a Sunday night at a quiet and emptying train station, close to the end of shifts. I was met by a man in an immaculate uniform and as sharp-looking as he would have been at 9am on a Monday morning. He was taking the trouble of speaking with the occasional passengers as they […]

Can you disconnect from the workplace in 2017?

It’s the first part of the new year, a time of fresh promises to improve wellbeing – leave the office on time, spend more quality time with the family and not get so stressed. However, does your boss continue to email you 24/7? Do you find it tricky to ignore work emails out of hours? Do […]

Is it game over for psychometric questionnaires?

It’s widely accepted that the value of the video games market overtook that of Hollywood more than a decade ago and more people now play games than don’t. Games immerse the player in a virtual world where they must make decisions and trade-offs and deal with other people to get the job done – and […]

Are your employees seen but not heard?

The nature and scope of employee voice is becoming increasingly complex, with drivers such as technology, new employment models and workforce diversity fundamentally changing the way we work. But are organisations flexing to accommodate these shifts in the way we express our voice in the workplace? This article was co-authored by Louisa Baczor (Research Associate) and […]

The impact of the ‘authentic self’ on wellbeing within workplace

Dr Gail Gross, an internationally acclaimed expert in human development and behaviour, recently wrote for Huffington Post that “once you begin to work towards your authentic self, you can begin to live as only you can live, and the person you are meant to be”. Yet the process of uncovering your authentic self is rarely […]

From busy to better: 9 tips to restore the sense of self

Addicted to technology? Sleeping with your smartphone? Making endless lists and feeling more and more burned out and behind every day? Deleting the “me” time from your calendar and hitting the vending machines when you stay late at work?  The way we talk about stress is stressful. We scold ourselves to “focus.” We constantly remind […]

Building a workplace that’s fit for the future

Today’s professionals have a new world of work at their fingertips. Unemployment rates are at an 11-year low, and as an ever-increasing number of opportunities open up, employees are able to consider what they want from their workplace – and find an employer that meets their needs. We recently spoke to workers across the UK, […]

Rewriting wellbeing: A creative addition to your wellbeing strategy

The latest estimates from the HSE show that cases of work related stress have significantly increased by 224,000 since last year. The cause cited? workload tight deadlines poor management The statistics make grim reading. More than ever, creating the optimum conditions for wellbeing, an environment for employees to flourish rather than flounder, is a critical […]

E-resilience: 5 tips to help you master the technology in your life

We've written before about the importance of e-resilience – or being able to cope emotionally with the amount of technology in our lives. There's no chance of us having less technology to solve the problem, so it's on us to add tools to our toolkit in order to more proactively deal with technology-related stress in the […]

Walking meetings at work: how, what, why, when

The idea that staying physically fit is good for our bodies, minds, mood and performance is as old as the hills. In the distant past, our very survival depended on our fitness and it was as early as the 1830s when the first gyms resembling our modern day equivalents began to take shape in an […]

Redundancy recovery: how to get back on track

Redundancy is something many of us will have to deal with during our careers, and it's never a nice experience when it does happen – no surprises there.  But what may raise a few eyebrows is just how many people would choose to keep news of their redundancy to themselves. Almost half of those who […]