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
Tag Archives: holiday management
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 Sleeps-with-Smartphone – and how to manage holidays more efficiently!
One of our Usual Suspects, Sleeps-with-Smartphone, has written us a letter to update us on how her summer is going so far. If you were at the HR Software Show 2014, you might have met her there. In her letter she also tells us about the new holiday booking tool at her workplace that helps the company manage holidays better. Continue reading
Lesson from Netflix: HR can be innovative too
‘Netflix culture’ slideshow has been viewed more than 5 million times on the web. Patty McCord, the then Chief Talent Officer who co-devised the strategy and slide deck, wrote an article for Harvard Business Review explaining what is so revolutionary in their approach. It makes for very interesting reading. Continue reading
Haven’t worked in months but still accruing holiday?
NHS vs Larner case, handed down at the Court of Appeal, ruled that workers who cannot take holiday due to illness are entitled to accrue holiday for when they return. Continue reading