The CIPD’s article ‘Managers close to breaking point fail to support team’ has highlighted some shocking issues for today’s managers with the impacts of stress. Are managers close to burn out, bad managers? Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Improving relations between HR and line managers
HR Magazine published an article today commenting on research done by the management consultancy firm, Hay Group. The research tells us that half of line managers that took part in the study felt that HR did not give them the appropriate support they needed to be good managers. There were various reasons for this but the one reason in particular that struck us at Honeydew as very simple to solve was this: Continue reading
Absence Management Survey 2013 published
CIPD and Simplyhealth have published the annual Absence Management survey results for 2013. The survey got 618 responses from organisations employing in total 2.3 million employees. Continue reading
How does your company compare?
XpertHR has released a national benchmark for absence rates and costs in the UK. Although all companies are different and few operate the same, it is always good practice to check how you are doing in comparison to the rest of the UK. How does your company compare? Continue reading
Government takes a stance to prevent long term illness
Last week the Government officially published their response to Black and Frosts’ 2011 review of sickness absence in the UK..
The biggest change to be made as a result of the review of sickness absence, is the introduction of the Long Term Absence scheme which offers free Occupational Health (OH) assessments to employees that have been signed off work for 4 weeks. Continue reading
News from Professor Dame Carol Black
Always interesting, Professor Dame Carol Black was addressing a group of HR professionals yesterday on the topics of absence, well-being and engagement. Dame Carol has been involved in researching and policy making in the sector since 2005 and a lot has happened during her time. Continue reading
CIPD 2012 Absence Survey published
Honeydew team headed to the launch event yesterday morning to hear all about this year’s absence survey results from CIPD and listen to a group of expert speakers Continue reading