Flexible Benefits – Don’t Take a One-Size-Fits-All Approach

24 / 04 / 2015

With numbers of employed people steadily increasing, recruitment and retention is a hot topic again. As employment goes up, the opportunity to shift jobs increases as well. So how can companies design their benefits and pay packages to keep the employees they want? More so, are benefits the way to retain employees? According to Thompsons, a flexible benefits provider, over...

Sleeping on The Job

20 / 04 / 2015

Last week an aeroplane had to make an emergency landing at a Seattle airport shortly after taking off. Having been in the air for 14 minutes, the pilot could hear banging and screaming from inside the cargo hold. Once landed, it was found that an aviation employee had fallen asleep inside the pressurised and temperature-controlled cargo hold. The airline has...

Assessing the Conservative Volunteering Policy

17 / 04 / 2015

David Cameron announced last week that if he remains in No 10 and wins a Commons majority, he would make it the law enabling all public sector workers, and anyone working in a company with more than 250 staff, to have three days’ paid leave each year leave to volunteer in the community. Many larger employers already allow employees time...

Getting Recruitment Right

15 / 04 / 2015

Sue Arkle believes that many of the problems faced by employers arise from a lack of understanding of how people naturally behave. She considers the implications of being in the wrong job. Who feels they are in the right job? We asked this question recently and 1569 people responded. We were surprised to find that 58.38% said they were in...

A Gin and Tonic Too Many

13 / 04 / 2015

There is nothing wrong with the occasional drink. Most of us like to relax and enjoy a glass of wine beer or gin and tonic every now and then. The occasional drink in the right place and at the right time is one thing, but it is estimated that 17 million working days per year are lost to absenteeism as...