For some companies the Christmas period brings collaboration and forward planning, for others it’s a time of skeleton staff and lapsed productivity. What separates the two is their approach to employee engagement, particularly over the festive period. By and large,…
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Driving loyalty in your millennial workforce
Categorising employees based on when they were born can be a controversial way to manage a workforce. However, the patterns of behaviour that are a result of the very different world Millennials were raised in compared to their older generational…
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10 questions that will reveal your company culture
Company culture is a tricky thing. We’re all agreed of its importance, yet nobody knows exactly how to cultivate one. There are no paint-by-number culture frameworks to follow – uniqueness is the quality that makes the best ones stand out….
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4 elements of successful reward and recognition programmes
Are reward and recognition programmes really worth their bother? They’ve played a leading role in many employee engagement strategies for decades, but it’s a question employers justly ask us every day. These employers hear about R&R’s ability to increase retention,…
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3 steps to convincing the c-suite to invest in employee engagement
The link between employee engagement and business performance is now irrefutable, but the cultural norm of motivating workers beyond their pay check is a relatively new concept. When manual labour made up the best part of the job market, there…
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5 employee engagement stats that are raising HR managers’ eyebrows
Definitions of employee engagement vary, but three consistent characteristics include realising employee potential, sharing organisational goals, and promoting employee wellbeing. Organisations that tick all three boxes tend to perform better and grow faster – Forbes goes as far as to…
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For employees, For employers
UK employers struggle to motivate workers in summer
With the summer months officially upon us, it seems organisations are struggling to keep up with basic employee needs. A new survey by Peldon Rose found that 84% of employees believe ‘summer perks’ would boost their productivity, yet over a…
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6 things that annoy us about working in summer
Summer tiiiime… making a living ain’t easy… so goes the song (we think). Because it’s July, it’s hot and we’re trying to act like it’s normal to be sitting in an office all day. Except everything isn’t normal. Oh no….
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UK employees waste 400m days a year
New research shows UK employees spend 441,827,088 days a year on ‘time wasting’ office tasks such as responding to hundreds of emails, attending meetings for meetings’ sake, and completing unnecessary admin. The research conducted explores everyday office tasks and considers…