Top five trends in UK reward management right now
Paydata’s spring UK Reward Management Report 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of running our bi-annual surveys exploring trends, practices and agendas topping the world of reward. 154 HR and Finance Directors and Reward and Compensation Specialists provided data and insights into practices that affect nearly half a million employees. The topical focus for this edition was equality and diversity initiatives, as the ethnicity pay gap is...
Britain’s Workplace Bonding Rituals and Bugbears Revealed
Cracking a joke, making a cuppa and lending a pen are the fastest ways that office workers can form bonds and become popular with colleagues – but taking credit for someone else’s work, turning up late and not pulling your weight will quickly annoy fellow employees, according to new research into UK office culture. In true British fashion, making tea for others builds strong bonds when it comes to making friends at work. In...
What Happens to Us When Life Happens: The Impact that Life Events Have on Ourselves
Getting married – Almost half of people who get married feel they spend more after the wedding. 18.4 % confessed they got into debt six months after tying the knot. Having kids – Almost half of population (46%) say they have kids without thinking about it. Buying a home – 6.9 million Brits claim it as the most important thing to do in the next five years. A fair amount of us have the aim of improving and keep achieving set...
The benefits of hiring candidates with international experience
Whether it’s a full-on overseas posting, or a gap year in Singapore – the benefits of hiring staff members that have had the opportunity to learn and understand new cultures – especially from a business perspective,are plentiful. Businesses that look to higher employees with transnational experience will often do so because they want to tap into specific skills sets that can be transferred into the workplace. ...
Global HRIS Systems – Getting the Choice Right
Businesses are rapidly expanding, and globalization requires functions that old HR processes can no longer properly manage. A global operation requires an intelligent system. One that can integrate and consolidate a myriad of information in order to handle all the tasks that come with having both a local and foreign workforce. Previously, language barriers, knowledge gaps and manual processes would hinder the HR processes, but by...
Important things to know for HR negotiations
As an HR manager or employee, you will experience numerous negotiations thought your career. From salary negotiations to deciding annual leave, knowing something about successful negotiation tactics can ensure you come out on top. 1) Listen Listening is one of the most important skills for a negotiator to have. In order to succeed in a negotiation, you need to obtain as much information as possible from the other party. When you are...
Employers favour workers that are adaptable, resilient and willing to learn!
New research from leading job board, CV-Library, reveals the key skills that employers are favouring right now, including the ability to adapt (71.5%), resilience (57.5%) and being able to balance your work and personal life (29.2%). The study, which surveyed 300 UK employers on the top skills they believe are most important in a potential hire right now, found that companies are keen to see candidates excelling in the following...
Are you really going to eat that? How to shut down food shaming in your office
Advice by Peninsula Associate Director of Advisory Kate Palmer We’ve all been there. You get an email from a colleague that there is cake in the office kitchen. You excitedly get away from your desk and ready for your sugar fix, but suddenly you hear one of your co-workers saying “Are you really going to eat that.” This is a prime example of ‘food shaming’, in which certain individuals are made to...
Flexible and part time working the greatest challenges for SMEs, according to new research
Paid leave for new parents is a financial and operational challenge for 90 percent of UK SMEs, according to the findings of new research into the challenges faced by working women and their employers. The first ever ‘Women in Business’ survey also reveals that covering the cost and resource of maternity and paternity leave is an even bigger concern for SMEs, with 96 percent of board level executives saying it’s a significant challenge...
Revealed: The happiest UK cities to live and work in
Do you feel happy on a daily basis? The UK’s leading independent job board, CV-Library, recently posed this question to the population and found that 58.7% of Brits do indeed feel happy every day, with this figure rising significantly amongst professionals working in Brighton (86.4%), Swansea (75%) and Glasgow (70.6%). In fact, the study of 2,000 working professionals comes just in time for what leading psychologist, Dr Cliff Arnall,...
Adults and children not getting enough sleep, risking poor diets and obesity, BNF survey finds
New research from the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) reveals that 43 percent of adults reported sleeping less than the recommended minimum of 7 hours on the previous night, and that 32 percent of primary and 70 percent of secondary school children reported sleeping less than 9 hours* on the previous night, despite emerging research linking poor sleep quality to less healthy food choices, and increased risk of obesity. On top of...
“I WILL SCREAM INTO A BUSH”: People will do anything to make some extra money in the “Gig” economy
A growing number of people are making a living in the ‘Gig Economy’ by offering weird and off-the-wall services, from ‘screaming into a bush’ to ‘creating promotional videos dressed as Jesus’, for as little as £5. Research by web services comparison site Website Planet has found that hundreds of self-employed ‘gig economy’ workers are using websites like Fiverr and Freelancer.com to promote their bizarre services, with many...
3 Business Ideas You Can Start From Home
If you’re interested in starting a business from home, you may feel like you don’t really understand how this works. Or you may even think it’s just too good to be true because all you see are people making big and bold claims about how they’re earning six figures by working only a few hours a week from their bedroom. However, it’s important to remember that businesses come in all shapes and sizes. Whilst you may not want to be making...
Why it’s worth investing in your employees’ wellbeing
With a quarter of UK adults now deemed to be obese, and an alarming 80% of England-based adults possessing a heart age that is older than their acual age, the nation is currently in a health crisis. Ultimately, this is having a direct impact on UK businesses. Whether it’s the costs associated with sick leave, or the inefficiencies of low morale and productivity, investing in your employees’ wellbeing is crucial to getting the...
The Impact of #MeToo on HR Processes
When Alyssa Milano took to Twitter in October 2017, she could hardly have anticipated the effect her hashtag would have. Her attempt to draw attention to sexual harassment through the hashtag #MeToo has snowballed into a worldwide movement, forcing all of us to take stock of the way women are treated every day. Where so many women stayed silent for years regarding any kind of sexual harassment in the workplace, #MeToo has given women...
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