Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“Our £2.5bn Back to Work Plan will also help one million people, including those with long-term health conditions and disabilities, find work and reap the benefits it has to offer.” Only 45 percent of workers in Britain have access to some form of occupational health, and with an estimated 1.8

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Disability Action Plan sets out an ambition to make the UK the most accessible place in the world. billion Back to Work Plan which will help thousands more disabled people and people with health conditions to start and thrive in work. This can only happen if employment is made a reality for more disabled people.”

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 28, 2024

Given the high numbers of people with long-term health conditions and on long-term sick, this could make a big difference to them returning to work in a more supported and sustainable manner. This is just one step towards addressing the UK’s challenges around sickness rates and economic inactivity.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 25, 2024

The term biophilia was later popularised more dryly in a 1984 book by the biologist Edward O. The term may be new, but the idea isn’t. trillion a year in terms of improved mental health alone. He derived the term as an antonym to pathogenesis which describes how ill health is treated after a condition has become evident.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 24, 2023

However, there’s significant unmet demand from workers for more flexible hours arrangements, such as flexitime (17% currently use vs 29% would use if offered and possible in their role), term-time working (2% vs 8%), compressed hours (4% vs 18%), job-sharing (1% vs 4%) and annualised hours (3% vs 11%).

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Allwork

MARCH 1, 2023

These factors can prevent access to quality treatment and the most appropriate care for those experiencing mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety. In terms of mental health training, this refers to both the content (how relevant it is to each employee) and delivery (how accessible it is to each individual).

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Workplace Insight

MAY 16, 2024

With increased scrutiny from the UK Government on how companies address women’s health issues, proactive organisations will be best positioned to avoid punitive compliance measures and potential reputational damage. Thus, it’s crucial for him to understand how these conditions can impact their lives.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The study, conducted by Lotta Harju, Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at emlyon business school, investigated the prevalence and persistence of boredom and exhaustion manifest among Finnish and UK workers. Nowhere in the paper do the researchers use the term ‘knackered’ That’s down to us.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 25, 2023

The managers and owners of firms across the UK now believe that the cost of living crisis is the top risk to their business, closely followed by a range of employee related issues, according to a new poll. The annual Gallagher Business Risk Index asked 1,000 leaders at UK businesses to identify the top risks affecting their firm.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Over a quarter of women (27 percent) aged 40-60 in the UK, who are currently in employment and have experienced menopause symptoms – an estimated 1.2 million – say that menopause has had a negative impact on their career progression, according to new research from the CIPD.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 4, 2022

When a pilot programme for a four day week was announced in the UK early in the New Year, #4dayweek trended for days on twitter, with jokey comments on how employees taking part in the trial should do everything not to ‘f it up for the rest of us.’ But behind the humour there’s a real issue with productivity in the UK.

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Success

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Based on robust clinical research, it collects probiotic strains and puts them to the test in a high-tech simulator known as SHIME®, which mimics biological conditions from stomach to colon. Currently, the company offers just two consumer products; however, the science and testing that go into their products is anything but limited.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Meanwhile, deskless workers like teachers, nurses and engineers saw limited long-term change despite many organisations comprising both types of workers. According to the report, the pandemic accelerated remote and hybrid work, mostly benefitting desk-based workers.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 9, 2023

If you’ve ever thought that the success or otherwise of a career is a little or largely dependent on getting the right breaks at the right time, new research from academics in the UK and France may confirm it. The study examines the role of chance events, whether positive or negative, on managers’ career success across Europe.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 5, 2014

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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Workplace Insight

JULY 20, 2023

The UK Government’s Work and Pensions Committee has called for more employment support to address economic inactivity. The Committee has also called for more focus to be given to measures to help young people, the over 50s and people with disabilities and long-term health conditions find and stay in work.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 12, 2022

All IWG members have access to the rapidly expanding network of 300 centres across the UK and thousands worldwide. Research undertaken by IWG suggests that three-quarters (72 percent) of workers would prefer the long-term ability to work flexibly togoing back to the office five days a week, with a 10 percent pay rise.

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Eco-Office Gals

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Allowing staff to work from home either once or twice or week or on a more long-term basis means a company’s workforce aren’t commuting to and from the office. Turn down the central heating/air conditioning. In countries like the UK , these schemes involve allowing workers to buy tax-free bikes for up to 40% less than they retail for.

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Eco-Office Gals

JUNE 20, 2013

Countries such as US (See The Clinton Foundation “ Greening Our Planet, One Bulb at a Time ” for more about US initiatives), Canada and the UK have awoken to the advantages of this alternate light source. In effect, LED lighting leads to safer road conditions at night. Other Benefits Of LED Lights.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Today the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt presented his Spring Budget to the House of Commons. Perhaps the headline element of this announcement was the creation of twelve new investment zones across the UK as well as incentives for older workers to return to the country’s patchy workforce.

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Allwork

AUGUST 28, 2023

And so we frame behavior both internally and in terms of consumer behavior through the frame of culture, where we assume that people are motivated by different things based on their cultural upbringing, their communities they live in, and as it relates to culture internally. In terms of how the lomad I love that Word stays.

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Catch Friday

MAY 31, 2014

In terms of the laboratory side of it I have no idea - samples go back to my office and everyday I have a collection, they take them to the lab and they''re given the ideal conditions to grow - it takes about ten days to be given the definitive result". Attract repeat long-term contracts through an attractive low-cost unit price.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Skilled labour shortages are slowly improving but the total UK headcount is still 12 percent lower than four years ago. Growing insolvencies in the sector are another challenge, as over 4,000 construction firms in the UK closed their doors last year.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 27, 2023

The past few years and our current predicaments should serves as a reminder of that tragic, unchangeable feature of the human condition, best expressed by Kierkegaard, that we are doomed to live our lives forwards but only understand them backwards. we produce creative products, ideas) — also called work from anywhere.

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Allwork

MAY 8, 2023

If it’s cheap to borrow money, then organizations can expand not only in terms of the number of employees that they hire, but also in terms of construction and product launches and other sorts of investments. There was a LinkedIn study I saw a couple of days ago in the UK. That’s a given.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I must confess that I’ve been conditioned to see him look annoyed and pissed in TV interviews but I’m beginning to suspect that’s because traditional media ask the same insipid questions over and over. Reply The Chatty DM ( @chattydm ) December 2, 2009 at 7:43 am Great interview with Kevin. Yosie Saint-Cyr´s last blog.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 22, 2015

In the UK, it’s one of a number of job functions, like Event Management itself, which is moving through a process of professionalisation, with increased recognition for the skills required and an understanding of the dedication required to be a true professional.

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