Cycle to work – a miracle medicine

“To promote healthier journeys to work and to reduce environmental pollution, the 1999 Finance Act introduced an annual tax exemption, which allows employers to loan cycles and cyclists’ safety equipment to employees as a tax-free benefit” as you can read on the gov.uk website. This Cycle to Work scheme is still going strong with nearly half a million bikes sold through the Cyclescheme. Continue reading

Our response to “5 reasons NOT to have an absence policy”

We recently came across an article that suggested it is sometimes better not to have an absence policy. The subject of criticism was strict attendance policies, which were said to breed discontent and be counter-productive to employee engagement among other things. 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

The internet’s effects on HR

The CIPD published an article giving us 6 reasons why the Internet has changed HR for the better. This is particularly relevant given that the internet celebrates its 25th anniversary this week – and in adage to this wonderful invention, we’d like to add a few more reasons to the list. Here are 10 of the internet’s effects on HR – all positive of course! Continue reading

Technophobia is costing your business time and money!

Working away from the office is slowly becoming the norm thanks to flexible working and smaller management teams. However, an article published today revealed that thanks to technophobia 80% of 1000 middle managers in the UK felt they weren’t offered sufficient technology to enable them to work away from the office. Continue reading