Why Excel is Detrimental to Annual Leave Management in your Business
Are you still using Excel spreadsheets to track your employees’ annual leave? Find out why Excel is not designed for employee management.
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Absence Management – Why Is It Important?
Having policies and procedures to curb absenteeism is not enough unless it is effectively communicated to employees and managers. The HR team needs to play a proactive role in ensuring that these policies and procedures are properly implemented.
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How Christmas 2021 Can Help To Strengthen Your Team
The ‘Spirit of Christmas’ is well known to us all. But it was almost lost last Yuletide, when restrictions forced office Christmas parties to be cancelled. Yet, even with the reports of this year’s cancellations, there is still much to celebrate in bringing colleagues together and an opportunity to strengthen team spirit in the new year.
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Simple Steps to Negotiating Staggered Returns Post-COVID and Possible Refusals
A full return of employees to the office was supposed to have already begun. Despite protective measures being adhered to, rising COVID19 cases have again prompted a delay. Instead, organisations must judge for themselves who can return to their offices. So how should employers approach this development to maximise productivity, ensure safety and overcome resistance to return?
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How Employee Mental Health Has Become A HR Priority
With offices opening up again, and employees returning to the workplace, there is no shortage of anticipation as the Covid-19 pandemic subsides. While businesses look forward to returning to productivity, for HR Departments, there is also a new priority – employee mental health support. So what can HR do to ensure a happy return for everyone?
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Return To Work Anxiety
The desire to move on from the Covid-19 pandemic and back to normal is palpable. And yet research suggests the level of anxiety in anticipation of a return to the office is extraordinarily high. So what can be done to ease any fears for staff? According to research carried out by the employee experience company, […]
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UN World Day For Cultural Diversity: How HR Can Celebrate It
The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development is an occasion to promote diversity as an agent of inclusion and positive change. It provides an opportunity to celebrate all forms of cultural diversity and expression and to reflect on how these contribute to dialogue and development.
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Stress Awareness Month: What HR Should Be Watching Out For
April is National Stress Awareness Month, but perhaps this year it is more poignant than ever before. Growing stress in the workplace, heightened by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, now promises to damage employee wellbeing and lower productivity. But is there anything that HR can do to ease the stress now being felt?
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Employee Appreciation Day: Why It’s More Important Than Ever To Mark It
On 5 March, the world celebrated Employee Appreciation Day but for the most part, it passed quietly under the radar. That’s hardly surprising given the events of the past year. But perhaps the uncertainties thrown up by the Covid-19 pandemic makes 2021’s instalment more important to celebrate than ever.
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4 Key Challenges HR Must Handle In 2021
2021 was supposed to bring with it the promise of new beginnings. But even now, in February, HR departments are still coming to terms with the challenges that a new working world is presenting. It’s not just a matter of maintaining a safe working environment amidst a global health crisis, it’s also the impact on mental health and how best to manage staffing issues amid an economic downturn.
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