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HR Grapevine Employment and recruitment has been hit hard recently; businesses have been forced to close their doors, others have gone into administration and sectors such as hospitality and tourism have been deeply impacted by the coronavirus crisis. This has led to huge numbers of redundancies and job losses, despite the Government’s efforts to protect…
By Neville Henderson – Crown Workforce Management, Senior Consultant The world of work has undergone a sea-change in the past few years. Businesses want more flexibility and productivity to suit them. At the same time, some people want predictability and others want to decide when and where they work for themselves. There was a time…
HR Grapevine More than four in ten (43%) remote workers plan to go ‘Al Desko’ this year by moving their laptops and work equipment into their gardens when the weather brightens up. With the Met Office predicting warmer weather in the run-up to Easter – as was reported by Heart – it is possible that…
HR Grapevine The UK’s largest building society has told some staff that they can ‘work anywhere’ as part of a new flexibility scheme. 13,000 office staff at Nationwide will be able to make use of the new scheme, which will allow them to choose wherever they work, giving them more control over their lives, the…
Earlier this week, the nation marked one year since the first lockdown was announced in the UK, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In this week’s episode of the podcast, Sophie Parrott, Online Editor at HR Grapevine, sits down with Kieran Howells, Deputy Editor at Executive Grapevine to talk about some of the biggest challenges…
When you’re running a young company or startup – whether you’re a small business owner or just part of the management team – it’s not always obvious what you need to focus on from a Human Resources perspective. After all, HR is a wide topic, taking in employment law, employee performance, company policies, employee engagement……