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HR Surgery: What Should I Be Doing As a Startup Every Month For HR?

by admin | Jun 24, 2018 | Employee Engagement, Learning & Development, Vision, Values & Culture

Time flies when you’re running your own business. One minute it’s January and you’re hiring your first few team members, telling yourself you’ll align their progress with the rest of the business, and then the next, you find it’s Summer already and all your good...

How To Create A Vision Your Team Can Really Get Behind

by admin | Jun 22, 2018 | Vision, Values & Culture

A vision will outline your destination to all those who touch your business: your team, your customers and your investors. The poster boy for creating a vision is Steve Jobs (of course). And for good reason. According to researcher Carmine Gallo, there’s no question...

Childcare Vouchers: What’s Going On??

by Katy Cracknell | Apr 10, 2018 | Employment Law, Reward, Wellbeing

You could be mistaken for thinking that the current Childcare Voucher scheme has now closed (after all we have been talking about it since 2017 now....) however it has now been extended for new members by another 6 months following a Commons debate, with a revised...

HR Futures: Engagement With A Fractional Workforce

by Claire Ward | Apr 3, 2018 | Employee Engagement, Learning & Development, Vision, Values & Culture

Fractional: [adjective] Relating to only a part of something; Extremely small or insignificant The fractional workforce is a phrase new to many. But not for long I suspect. A term used to loosely describe those who provide work to one or more businesses, it includes...

New Toolkit Encourages Businesses To Promote Healthy Eating And Exercise To Employees

by theHRhub | Apr 2, 2018 | Employee Engagement, Wellbeing

Public Health England and Business in the Community have published a toolkit in an effort to encourage employers to promote healthier eating and exercising to their employees. Keen to stress the business benefits, the toolkit explains that such initiatives can boost...

Boom In Use Of Agency Workers Is Set To Continue

by theHRhub | Feb 27, 2018 | Employment Law, Hiring

Recently published research by the Resolution Foundation shows a boom in the use of agency workers by businesses looking to fill their skills gap, and the findings suggest that it’s a pattern that’s set to continue. Almost half (43%) of respondents said that they’d...

Boring-but-important: Auto Enrolment Updates for April 2018

by Katy Cracknell | Feb 20, 2018 | Employment Law, Reward

It is just over five years since the first employers started to automatically enrol eligible workers into a qualifying pension scheme but for your SME it may have been a lot more recently. Up until 6th April 2018, the minimum contribution under auto enrolment rules...