Social media sites are set to be one of the biggest influences on the future of HR and it would be wise to embrace their influence rather than avoid it. Continue reading
Category Archives: Productivity
Sleep and Productivity: A Commonly Neglected Relationship
Adults in the 21st century are often sacrificing the time they spend sleeping in order to fit in extra works hours or important tasks that would otherwise be left undone. In reality, if more people slept longer and to a schedule they would find they could get more done in less time. Continue reading
The Future of Work: A journey to 2022
PWC’s recent report on ‘The Future of Work‘ gathered the opinions of 10,000 people in China, India, Germany, the UK and the US to compile a diverse understanding of workers’ views on the future of work. Naturally, not all participants agreed on views and opinions varied due to differing contexts and perspectives. Continue reading
Around the world: Innovative approaches to productivity
This week’s news reports interesting workplace initiatives aimed at improving performance around the world. These innovative approaches to productivity come from Germany, where employees are being allowed to delete all incoming mail whilst on holiday and from Japan, where employees are encouraged to nap at work. Continue reading
How to take holiday
You would think that taking holiday is the simplest thing in the world. Most of us living in the western world are lucky enough to benefit from paid annual leave and it should be an easy task to switch off work and take off into the sunset to enjoy ourselves. Not so. Continue reading
Holidays are good for your health
It’s the height of summer and hopefully you have just been or are looking forward to going on holiday soon. If you don’t have any holiday booked, we strongly recommend you rectify that soon because, simply put, holidays are good for your health! Continue reading
Letter from Butch Presentee and how to engage employees
Here’s a letter from one of our Usual Suspects, Butch Presentee. As you might remember, the Usual Suspects of poor attendance (see the animation here) are that 20% of the workforce responsible for 80% of absence problems. Butch’s main issue is presenteeism and dis-engagement. Here’s how he has been doing recently: Continue reading
From Rio to Wimbledon
Now that the World Cup is over (or so it will feel for most England fans), as we, sadly, correctly predicted on our blog a couple of weeks ago, the impact of the World Cup on absence turned out to be negligible due to the early exit of our boys in white. Continue reading
How to leave work on time
Now that most of us have a heavier work load than ever, it’s important for us not to allow work to swamp our private lives. Whilst overtime is commonplace when necessary, constant overtime is not. So here are some tips on how to leave work on time. Continue reading
Create workplaces and job roles to love 24/7
With the pressures at work being held on a constant high, employees sometimes become bored and fed up with their roles very quickly. The internet has been inundated with articles claiming to show you how to ‘re-engage your employees, now!’ so we decided to read through the advice out there and compiled a list of tips that actually do create workplaces and job roles to love 24/7. Continue reading