Tips and tricks relating to holiday / sickness and other related subjects
Although it’s in everyone’s best interest for your staff to use their entire annual leave allowance, on occasion, they’re guaranteed to ask for dates which are problematic for the company. Whether it’s a busy time for your business that requires all hands on deck or workers have booked time off already, you often have no […]
Duvet days are days that an employee can take off without notice. Every employee has day where they really don’t want to come into work, perhaps due to burnout, events in their personal life, or simply not feeling it. A duvet day allows them to succumb to that feeling and stay at home. Or, more […]
Having to make your employees redundant is an unpleasant task to undertake – but, unfortunately, it’s a wholly necessary one. In fact, the survival of your business often depends upon it. In the event you need make redundancies, it’s best to follow the proper procedure, which means adhering to the formal process required for redundancy. […]
In 2022 in the UK, you can look forward to an additional bank holiday, including a 4 day weekend to be held over the summer. When is the extra bank holiday? In the UK, your staff members can look forward to the extra bank holiday in 2022, which is scheduled for Friday, 3rd of June. […]
According to the popular adage, what you don’t know can’t hurt you. However, in many cases, the reverse is also true – what you don’t know can’t help you either. When it comes to staff absences, it’s crucial to know as much as possible. The more data on employee absence you have at your disposal, […]
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is forcing companies all over the world to change the way they operate, and one of the areas this is most apparent is in the HR department. With the effect the pandemic is having on everyone, and the fact that we’re all being affected in different ways, HR is being called […]
With the numerous benefits it offers companies of all sizes and our rapid rate of technological advancement, the world was moving towards more employees working remotely. After the COVID-19 outbreak, however, companies were forced to set up their staff to work from home sooner than many of them would have liked. And while there are […]
Mental health in the workplace has started to receive some much-needed attention in recent years, reflecting an evolving attitude in society as a whole. A large part of this change is the growing awareness that mental health issues don’t just affect those diagnosed, clinical conditions but are something we all need to address – just […]
Remote working has become so commonplace in recent months that it’s constantly referred to as the ‘new normal’. However, for some of your staff, the keyword in that phrase is new – and working from home doesn’t feel ‘normal’ at all. Similarly, even those employees who’ve worked from home in the past aren’t accustomed to […]
Absence, in its various guises, is inevitable – employees have to take time off. Consistently being caught off-guard by staff absence, however, doesn’t have to be. Creating an absence policy gives you a plan of action for dealing with time off – whether planned or unplanned. Here are a few reasons you need one for […]
