June 15, 2021
June 14, 2021
Wellbeing should be part of business strategy after lockdown, claims new report
by Neil Franklin • News, Wellbeing
A new report from the RSA and Vitality warns of the potentially serious impact on the long-term physical and mental health of employees. The authors claim that the ‘long lockdown effect’ should lead employers to see health and wellbeing as important strategic issues and place them on the company’s risk registers. With the shift to more flexible working cultures now set to continue, Healthy Hybrid, a Blueprint for Business, claims to shine a light on the health impact of successive lockdowns on homeworkers. (more…)
June 14, 2021
Businesses call on Government to put net zero and nature at the heart of planning system
by Jayne Smith • Environment, News
More than 100 business leaders have written to the Prime Minister calling for the net zero transition, nature’s recovery, and climate resilience to be at the heart of the UK’s new planning system. (more…)
June 14, 2021
Many employees lack workplace friendships
by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working lives
A new study conducted by Wildgoose, into friendship in the workplace claims the impact of working from home on personal connections in the office. One in 20 employees starting a new job while working from home have found it hard to make colleague friendships. This is equivalent to over 300,000 employees struggling to integrate and make friends in a new role. (more…)
June 11, 2021
WorldGBC details built environment progress to achieving net zero
by Jayne Smith • Environment, News
WorldGBC has launched the latest annual Advancing Net Zero Status Report, which highlights leadership action from the Green Building Council (GBC) global network towards achieving total sector decarbonisation. (more…)
June 11, 2021
Employees worlkpace health damaged by pandemic
by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working lives
New research by Gartner Inc, which surveyed more than 20,000 employees between January 2020 and March 2021, claims that COVID-19 has negatively impacted the health of 55 percent of the global workforce. (more…)
June 10, 2021
UK organisations risk losing talent if lacking in empathetic leadership
by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working culture
New research commissioned by Workplace from Facebook claims there is a growing demand from UK employees for more empathetic leaders since the pandemic. (more…)
June 10, 2021
Returning to the office may see a rise in family separation anxiety
by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Wellbeing, Working lives
Research from Love Energy Savings claims that nearly half of parents (46 percent) are concerned about missing key moments in their child’s development when they return to working in the office. (more…)
June 9, 2021
Workers more likely to challenge unethical behaviour if their boss is ethical too
by Jayne Smith • News, Working culture
Workers are much more likely to challenge unethical behaviour in their organisation if their manager is seen as an ethical leader, according to new research from Durham University Business School. (more…)
June 9, 2021
Work factors that make the drive home more dangerous
by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working lives
Most road traffic accidents happen on the drive home from work, claims new research from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), which examines which characteristics of the working day have implications for road safety and why. (more…)
June 9, 2021
More technology for remote working is key to the future of the office
by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Technology
A survey of real estate and IT professionals across a range of industries claims that better remote working technology is perceived to be twice as important as workplace testing. Workplace creation specialists Unispace surveyed over 2,000 senior Real Estate and IT professionals across Europe on the topic of the future of work, and what to expect from the workplace of the near future. (more…)
June 9, 2021
UK job quality continues to fall short
by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working lives
Job quality in the UK has been surprisingly unaffected by the Covid pandemic so far but continues to fall short on a number of key measures, according to the CIPD’s annual Good Work Index. (more…)





While we remain eager to safely leave coronavirus restrictions behind us and return to normal, there are several changes brought about by the pandemic which UK employees hope will stick around. The most important one being hybrid working, according to new research from 











