June 18, 2021

Working from home has increased UK working hours, but at what cost?

by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Wellbeing, Working lives

Research from Ezra claims that UK employees are working longer hours than ever thanks to remote working. However, the lack of structured office hours is having a detrimental effect on employee work-life balance and wellbeing and, therefore, the quality of their work. (more…)

June 18, 2021

Demand for Facilities Management professionals continues to rise

by Jayne Smith • Facilities management, News, Working lives

The latest RICS UK Facilities Management Survey results suggest a greater demand for services across all sectors, apart from retail, with FM employment opportunities therefore increasing. Furthermore, for the first time since the COVID-19 crisis swept the world last year, profit margins in the sector are expected to rise. (more…)

June 17, 2021

Women struggling with almost twice as much fatigue and anxiety as men

by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working lives

As COVID-19 continues to limit our daily lives, forcing the Government to extend social restrictions into July, restrictions of a different kind are taking their toll on working women, and may be even longer-lasting, according to research from 87 percent. (more…)

June 17, 2021

UK working parents concern about future linked to final restrictions lifting

by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Working lives

New research from Working Families claims nearly a third of working parents (29 percent) are concerned their caring responsibilities will make them more vulnerable to redundancy when furlough ends, after juggling work and childcare through the pandemic. (more…)

June 16, 2021

Seminar will explore the route to a great workplace culture

by Freddie Steele • Company news, Events, Flexible working

The events of the past 16 months have focussed attention on how we best bring people together to work, collaborate and learn from each other. That is why workplace occupancy and collaboration technology specialist Jooxter has curated a new webinar to help firms understand the challenges and opportunities they have in the new era of dispersed collaborative work. The webinar will explore how they can best bring people together, offer them a world class workplace experience and achieve great results. A panel of experts will discuss the evolution of hybrid working and how to create a team culture for better collaboration.

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June 15, 2021

UK and Western Europe have least engaged employees

by Jayne Smith • News, Wellbeing, Working culture

Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report claims that the UK and Western Europe have the lowest employee engagement levels globally at just 11 percent, but the region’s employees assessed themselves as having high life evaluations (55 percent are thriving) and low negative emotions compared with employees in many other world regions. (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

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 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…)

June 7, 2021

The bullshit jobs theory may turn out to be, well…

by Neil Franklin • News, Wellbeing, Working culture

The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value – contains several major flaws, argue researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Birmingham. Even so, writing in Work, Employment and Society, the academics applaud its proponent, American anthropologist David Graeber, who died in September 2020, for highlighting the link between a sense of purpose in one’s job and psychological wellbeing.

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June 4, 2021

Expect to see a growing number of people with the job title Head of Remote

by Jo Deal • Comment, Flexible working

Over the past year we’ve all become accustomed to working from home and now, the number of businesses setting permanent remote working strategies is growing. Consequently, this affects HR departments and their ways of working. The office is losing its status as the daily workplace and communication between colleagues has shifted to virtual channels. In order to manage remote workers appropriately and effectively, a manager who specialises in remote work could become more and more relevant in HR departments across the world. (more…)