Imogen is a freelance writer specialising in health, travel and people, who loves creating content that is accessible and easy to digest. She is also currently in her second year of retraining to be a children and adolescent therapist. In her spare time, she goes cold water swimming, plays tennis and loves to travel with her family and their dog.
An employee directory is a digital system that stores information about an organisation’s members. At a minimum, it includes basic information such as names, contact [...]
HR benchmarking helps companies understand how they compare to others regarding their HR processes. As employees are usually a company’s most important resource, this understanding [...]
Many people have a combination of a state pension, a private pension, and a workplace pension, making it a complicated business to understand exactly how [...]
What is Redeployment? The Cambridge Dictionary defines redeployment as: the act of moving employees, soldiers, equipment, etc., to a different place or using them in [...]
What is Secondment? Secondment is when an employee temporarily transfers to another position or role. The new position or role is usually within the same [...]
Also known as “time off for dependants” or “compassionate leave” in some companies, emergency leave from work is an entitlement for all employees who have [...]
What is Workplace Design? Workplace design is the term for creating a work environment that considers all the elements impacting employees to holistically optimise their [...]
What is ADHD? ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It is a neurodevelopmental condition, which means that it is a condition that affects how [...]
The words “financial management” may crop up frequently in business conversations, but how often do we stop to think about what they mean and whether we [...]
What is Meant by Time Tracking? Time tracking is the process of recording the working hours of employees. Organisations use information from time tracking to [...]
Allocating the right staff to the right shifts within the proper legal framework can be a challenging task. And that’s before you get requests to [...]
Corporate social responsibility, or ‘CSR’, is not a new concept. However, in a world facing the consequences of climate change and social issues such as [...]
Employee relations refers to the relationships between employers and employees and individual and collective relationships within the body of employees. As you might expect, managing [...]
“Teamwork makes the dream work” may be an over-used cliché, but as with all clichés, there’s truth at its heart. People who collaborate efficiently and [...]
Employee fatigue can be hard to measure, difficult to talk about and tricky to address within a business context. It can also have wide-ranging implications [...]