Secrets are lies; sharing is caring; privacy is theft. Listen carefully, and echoes of the Orwellian hymn can be heard in the modern workplace of electronic staff surveillance. From deceivingly innocent gadgets hidden under a friendly veil of a perk, to the outright intrusive – advancement in technology has changed the game in staff surveillance,…
Category: Employer Branding
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There are lots of arguments about whether it makes a difference whether your workplace is diverse enough. If it doesn’t affect their ability to do the job, does it matter what race, religion or sexuality your employees are? There is however the argument that people like to see a reflection of themselves in a company.…
The difficulties UK SMEs and larger businesses face are well documented but luckily there is plenty advice and tips to make sure you overcome them with ease. Managing Director at Love Energy Savings, Phil Foster, works to implement sustainable improvements to ensure revenue growth and optimum customer experience: Focusing on your customers wants and needs…
What’s in the secret sauce to developing a great employer brand? To find out what the ingredients are, we sat down with Adam Glassman, the Recruitment Strategies Manager at Alorica; a global customer service BPO with over 100,000 employees in 16 countries around the world. For a full summary keep reading below and remember to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast.…
For many of us, the phrase ‘team building’ will conjure up ideas of building straw structures to resemble bridges, thinking up an ‘interesting’ fact about ourselves or performing trust falls. While these activities may be traditional team building methods, today’s workforce are open to a much wider variety of activities which have just as effective…
Stories have been in this world for a long, long time. Ever since the first human beings started to communicate with another, the art of storytelling was formed. Knowing exactly when it started is a myth… until of course we (finally!) develop the first ever time machine and travel back in time to figure it…
A surprising number of line managers are a little daunted by the prospect of having a conversation with an employee who’s announced they are having a child. Even those with children of their own. It can seem like a bit of a minefield, but it doesn’t have to be. There are some simple steps you…
A healthy workplace is a happy workplace, and a happy workplace is a far more productive one. A salary alone is no longer enough to retain your employees, nor is it enough to attract and recruit future talent. Corporate wellness has become a social responsibility that employees and future talent want, need and expect from…
There is a common saying in agency recruitment, albeit not a very complimentary one. Not one that any agency would openly subscribe to, but it is always there: “Throw enough sh*t at the wall and some will stick.” The idea of this will sound familiar to many of my in-house Talent Acquisition (TA) and HR colleagues. It…