Health and Wellbeing

"From the employer’s perspective, mental health and wellbeing at work isn’t just a ‘nice to have’, it’s a legal requirement."

One in three HR practitioners think that employee engagement has gone up with half reporting no change, despite heading into the seventh week of lockdown due to Covid-19, according to new research.

It’s during a time of crisis that what we value as an organisation takes on meaning beyond the stickers on the wall or the pages of a handbook. It’s when our backs are to the wall that leaders, managers and colleagues will find out how much they are willing to stand behind their company culture and live their values.

Employees, self-isolating to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, will receive Statutory Sick Pay from day one, instead of day four.

Love in the workplace hit headlines recently for all the wrong reasons, however, apparently two thirds of UK employees think that colleagues who couple should not be sacked.

Less than half of employees believe their organisation has effective procedures for resolving interpersonal conflict, according to a recent report.

One in three employees suffer from Sunday night fear and one in four of these call in sick as a result, according to a recent survey.

Getting on well with colleagues gives workers greater job satisfaction than having a good salary, according to new research.

The average Brit spends over two hours procrastinating at work each day, costing businesses £21 billion a year, according to a recent survey.

Bereaved parents in the UK will have a legal right to two weeks statutory leave from April.