Furlough Leave More FAQs

02 / 04 / 2020

As time has gone on, there have been more questions. Here are the questions that have been put to me most frequently in the last week.

Furlough Leave Creates Alternative to Lay-Off

26 / 03 / 2020

It is not an easy time for anyone, and the last two weeks have been extremely difficult and desperately worrying, for employers and employees alike. As one of my clients put it: “I’ve worked my guts out for 20 years, built an excellent business – and seen it disappear in three days.” It’s heart wrenching.

Buying Time – Alternative to Redundancies

18 / 03 / 2020

The shock across the economy this week has been seismic. Almost overnight orders stopped or were cancelled, phones stopped ringing in sales office and businesses are now faced with the bleak prospect of cutting costs or going down.

HR in the Time of Coronavirus

11 / 03 / 2020

I sometimes think that life imitates art, with a few tweaks. Not long ago I was reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, so I have swiped a version of the title for this blog. Coronavirus isn’t cholera of course but it’s causing great anxiety and is very disruptive.

Music at Work

04 / 03 / 2020

A couple of weeks ago I was at a carnival in the south of Spain watching the drummers who were leading the procession. The music they produced was fantastically powerful, and everyone - drummers and spectators – were jigging round to the beat, huge smiles on our faces and having enormous fun. I decided there and then I want to join a drumming group :-).