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Making a Difference: Mental Health in Professional Services

Pre-Covid, the professional services industry was already focusing on ways to better foster employee mental health. However, the pandemic has greatly amplified the need for wellbeing support across the sector, with the impact of working from home and the broader health impacts of the virus taking a growing toll. This should come as a warning…

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How to Succeed at Work, Post-Pandemic  

Since March 2020, a lot has changed within our workplaces and teams. You may be permanently working in your home office, or your team may have changed its size or makeup. Even your role may have been adapted to survive the pandemic. As a result, it’s completely normal to feel a little lost or overwhelmed…

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Overcoming Burnout as a Recruiter

Burnout is no joke. It’s an extreme state of exhaustion that can manifest as demotivation, anxiety/stress or feeling overwhelmed. Unsurprisingly, the rates of burnout have risen exponentially since the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, web searches for the phrase ‘signs of burnout’ were up 150% in 2020 from previous years, as many workers felt…

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How Remote Work Can Foster Inclusion and Psychological Safety

People success platform leader Glint, part of LinkedIn, has published results on workplace culture that show that remote work is creating more inclusive and psychologically safe workplace experiences. The company’s Head of EMEA People Science tells us more. Our global pandemic-initiated shift to remote work has had many consequences, but one that isn’t called out…

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Will Unlimited Annual Leave Become the New Business Normal?

Increased productivity, heightened workplace morale, and more competitive benefits packages – these are some of the positive impacts that companies have reported since implementing the ‘unlimited holiday’ scheme. This new take on holiday allowance first started to grow within US-based tech start-ups as a way to stand out from their larger competitors but has since…