It can sometimes feel as if going to work is actually the worst way to get work done. You aren't the only one to feel like this and in today's 'Age of Distraction', it doesn't look like this is going to become any easier. Working in an office environment generally requires concentrating at [...]
It is good news for employers that the number of sick days taken on average by workers over the last 2 decades has actually decreased significantly. The 2016 estimate for working days lost due to sickness or injury in the UK is 137.3 million, which works out to be an average of 4.3 [...]
What is skills training? The term 'skills' is very broad and really covers all manners of soft and hard skills we need in order to be successful in our professional and personal lives. So what do we mean when we talk about skills training? In order to be truly successful, we believe [...]
The working world has changed rather a lot in the UK compared to the way it was 20 years ago. In today's world, both employees and employers take greater care over achieving a sense of work-life balance and with the help of governmental changes, a flexible working option has now become a mainstay [...]
A huge amount of research has gone into employee engagement to date, showing that engaged employees are far less likely to leave their current employer, work more productively and take less sick days. We know this and we all strive to keep our employees highly motivated, engaging a range of tactics including team [...]
