People

Mark Homer, Vice President Global Customer Transformation at ServiceMax from GE Digital, delves into how future generations won’t be familiar with standalone products as the concept rapidly becomes extinct. It’s strange to think that Generation Z, the current crop of trend-setting teenagers and twentysomethings that tend to hog coffee shop Wi-Fi…

Flexible working is the future, or at least this is the debated consensus. Below Georgina Hamblin, divorce lawyer and Director at Vardags, discusses her experiences with flexible working, and offers great advice on how to make it work for you. When I returned from maternity leave it was important to me that I had control over my return to…

By the year 2020 there are going to be several major changes in the workplace, one of these being huge generational shifts. Five different generations will be working alongside each other; Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z. This of course will carry several challenges as well as several benefits, but how…

Over half of young people would refuse to work for a company that has reported a large gender pay gap, according to new research from Young Enterprise (YE). The findings are contained in a new report published today entitled ‘The Gender Pay Divide: A Young Person’s Perspective’, which highlights for the first-time young people’s attitudes…

Millennials plan to use robots to avoid human interaction at work, as revealed by research commissioned by ABBYY. The research, of 1,200 employees in the UK, found that 17% of 18-34 year olds hate speaking to customers, yet only 4% of over 55s felt the same. What’s more, 1 in 10 (10%) of 18-34 year olds would delegate speaking to customers to…

Managers need to be able to notice when someone is being inefficient or if their workload is too much. As a manager, they have a large amount of responsibility. Karen Meager and John McLachlan are the co-founders of Monkey Puzzle Training, and below they offer some insight into pinpointing those that need a leg up. Managers oversee contracts,…

World Mental Health Day – celebrated annually on the 10th of October, tomorrow – marks an important date for anyone dealing with, or exposed to, mental health. This day is particularly important for employers, who should take the opportunity to reflect on the current culture surrounding mental health in their workplace and identify what more can be…

Members of staff across all industries are worried to report injuries sustained in the workplace to their employer for fear of making them angry, research from Percy Hughes & Roberts Solicitors has revealed. Of those who had been involved in an accident 38% did not report it because they were worried their employer would be angry, or they did…

A new international report published by the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) - the country’s leading think tank focusing on the impact of our rapidly ageing society – finds that as life expectancy rises output increases per hour worked, per worker and per capita. The report, ‘Towards a longevity dividend: Life expectancy and…