April 30, 2021
Search Results for: productivity
April 28, 2021
Strong mutual trust between managers and employees boosts company’s financial performance
by Jayne Smith • Business, News, Working culture
Companies that have a high-level of mutual trust between their management and employees are much more likely to have a greater economic and financial performance, according to new research from Durham University Business School. (more…)
April 23, 2021
WiredScore launches SmartScore – global certification for smart buildings
by Freddie Steele • Company news
WiredScore, is announcing the launch of a new certification for smart buildings aimed at providing clarity, definition and measurement for the growing smart building industry. SmartScore certification was developed in response to increasing demand for guidance around what ‘smart’ really means in relation to commercial buildings, and how it can and should be implemented. (more…)
April 22, 2021
Business leaders lose touch with remote working employees
by Jayne Smith • Business, Flexible working, News
EMEA business leaders are out of touch with what employees want in the hybrid workplace experience, and 66 percent of organisations plan to adopt a different operating model than they had before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from Unisys Corporation. (more…)
April 21, 2021
Workers do double the work because of disconnected tech
by Jayne Smith • News, Technology, Working lives
New research by Templafy claims over a third (37 percent) of UK employees do around double the amount of work because their technology stack lacks useful integrations in its business enablement report. This leaves UK workers spending large amounts of time switching between applications, with over one in four, 27 percent, using six to ten different applications each week. (more…)
April 21, 2021
Email fatigue is causing rising dissatisfaction with remote work
by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Working lives
Superhuman, have released the results of a new survey that examines how the pandemic and shift to remote work are impacting employee satisfaction with their jobs. (more…)
April 21, 2021
Majority of UK workers don’t want to go back to the office until everyone is vaccinated
by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Wellbeing
As lockdown starts to lift, more people are having to think about going back to work as normal. That means commutes, offices, cafeterias, and face to face meetings. CPD Online College, surveyed over 1,000 UK employees to find out how they feel about returning to the office prior to everyone being vaccinated. (more…)
April 16, 2021
Hybrid working risks becoming a meaningless term
by Ben Gillam • Comment, Flexible working, Workplace design
Hybrid working runs the risk of becoming a blanket term, interpreted on a very surface level, when it has the potential to offer a much greater opportunity for businesses to open up and re-examine the culture and experience of their staff, alongside where they want to take their business in the future, as well as fast-tracking mental health and wellbeing to play a central role in workplace strategy. (more…)
April 16, 2021
A fifth of UK workers feel remote working has reduced recognition in the workplace
by Jayne Smith • Flexible working, News, Working culture
Research from Ezra, provider of digital coaching claims that a fifth of UK workers feel they get less recognition within their career as a direct result of working remotely. It remains to be seen to what extent we will return to a full working environment, as Covid restrictions see many continue to work from home for part of, if not their whole working week. (more…)
April 14, 2021
Innovation, efficiency and temporary staffing drive business survival in the UK
by Jayne Smith • Business, News
More than a year after the coronavirus was first reported the UK, the impact on business is undeniable. Research conducted by SD Worx, claims that the UK has faced second most dismissals of employees (30 percent) in the past year, trailing slightly behind Austria (30.9 percent) yet ahead of France (29.1 percent). (more…)
April 12, 2021
Employee experience is top priority for CIO’s but UK held back by lack of tools
by Jayne Smith • News, Technology, Working culture
Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, have announced a new study, claiming that employee experience has become a new priority for IT leaders as they reinvent their infrastructures to support remote workforces. The Changing Role of the IT Leader was conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Elastic in February 2021, one year into the global pandemic, and published in April.
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April 26, 2021
What are the limits of an employer’s duty of care to employees?
by Helen Jamieson • Comment, Wellbeing