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

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

How to eat for a healthy brain – Brain Awareness Week 2014

Yesterday was the start of Brain Awareness Week 2014. The aim of this week is to remind the public that research into brain activity and repair is vital and to update us on the latest findings, which is great!

Our diets are one of the largest contributors to brain function and sometimes, thoughts of ‘eating for our brain’ slips away when trying to lose weight or gain energy. It’s important to eat right for a healthy brain and we’d like to make you aware of just how to do that. 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