Following the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, and the curtailment of most international travel, many of us engaged in staycations when we wanted a break away from it all. We’re all familiar with the portmanteau ‘staycation’ (‘stay’ + ‘vacation’ – a stay in one’s own town or close to home), but have you heard
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As an Employer, you know that you are responsible for the health, safety and well-being of your Employees. However, when you are busy running day-to-day operations and ensuring your Employees have all they need to be effective, it can be easy to forget about, and even neglect your own well-being. Excessive pressures and demands in
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Difficult conversations at work are inevitable. Most people prefer to avoid conflict. In the workplace, this type of avoidance can look like; failing to address someone’s inappropriate behaviour; refusing to discuss poor performance; or not drawing necessary boundaries with colleagues, for example. The longer a difficult conversation is avoided, the worse the matter often becomes.
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When we were schoolchildren, many of us found ourselves unable to fully enjoy and relax on our Sunday evenings, as we dreaded the school week looming on Monday morning. We dreaded the work, the interactions with people we didn’t feel that close to, overbearing teachers, and panic over how we’d get our assignments finished by
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Domestic abuse is said to affect one in four women, and one in six men in their lifetime. In the year ending March 2019, an estimated 2.4 million adults, aged 16 to 74, had experienced domestic abuse, a figure that jumped significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic, largely down to stay-at-home orders and closures of workplaces
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The term ‘neurodiversity’ describes brain differences in areas such as manner of learning, attention and social skills. Examples of neurodivergence include Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and other learning differences. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that 64% of Employers admit to having little or no understanding
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Over the years, countless studies have been carried out, articles and books have been written, and courses have been created on how best to manage our time – how we can manage our time most effectively to get the most done, and how to achieve the greatest levels of productivity in the time that we
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As much as we, as Employers, may invest in solid processes and practices that promote optimum productivity, it will all be short-lived if wellbeing is not a part of the equation. Low levels of wellbeing in the workplace leads to Employee dissatisfaction, poor productivity, absenteeism, and worse, resignations as Employees opt to move to other
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A new report by the charity, Just Like Us, which surveyed 3695 people aged 18 to 25, found that a quarter of LGBT+ young adults went back into the closet when they started work. Reasons cited included feeling psychologically unsafe and the fear of mistreatment, with 19% of LGBT+ young adults stating they had experienced
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While social media is not especially new anymore (its first forms appearing in 1997), its sophistication, popularity and reach has grown at an astonishing rate over the years. We’ve moved from sharing our worlds through simple textual status updates, to showing it in all its glory via snappy, short videos. Many Employers still have a
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