Mental health is an important focal point in society and as with any societal shift, it is impacting the place of work, businesses, and companies alike. As a result, organizations need to respond and adapt. As companies have previously harnessed other societal shifts such as the power of social media to reach their target audience,…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
It’s hard work trying to manage just one brand, but imagine having to juggle and maintain and promote multiple brands. Well, this week we are learning from a company with 50,000 people which operates under 87 brands. Ellen Kapoor is the Director of Talent Acquisition & Leadership Development at ITW, her role involves developing the…
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Are You Addicted to Work?
Research by TechTalk shows in the UK, 54% of employees check work emails on holiday and 6% admit to even checking them at a funeral. As technology makes it increasingly easy for us to push beyond the 9-5, Lucinda Pullinger, Global Head of HR at Instant Offices explores how workers can recognize the difference between…
Do you love your inbox? If you’re like most people, the answer is probably a definitive ‘no’. That’s because, for most of us, our inbox is a forsaken place where we collect the detritus of our working lives and get the latest updates from that one website we thought might be useful in 2009 whose…
Staff productivity is critical to business success, but what are the best ways to get the most out of your employees? Pay them more than the competition in an effort to make them work harder? Block all distractions and tell them to knuckle down? Give them time management tools and hope they use them wisely?…
Once you’ve spotted the signs that an employee may be suffering from a mental health issue in the workplace, it’s not always to confront them about it in case you risk of causing them further distress. But at the same time, you have a duty of care to your staff and to just ignore them…
Worldwide the talk is about the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the extensive use of mobile phones and devices to conduct our business and daily activities bears testimony to its existence. When looking around, we find it unthinkable that time existed without the internet or mobile devices. Barack Obama with his Blackberry, Donald Trump and Elon…
You know those times at work where you can barely keep your eyes open, but feel everyone else is cracking on? Or when you’re just getting going at a party, but your mate is ready to call it a night? Well, the key to these mysteries may lie in learning what your ‘sleep animal’ is;…
Always listen to your mother, the adage goes, because sooner or later you’ll realize she was right all along. Sometimes it’s hard to take mom’s advice. It might seem counterintuitive, overly protective, or just not practical, but there are a number of reasons that taking a mother’s word for it might make you look pretty…