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Why the Time Has Come for a 4-Day Week

The coronavirus pandemic has changed every aspect of our lives, and it’s had a particularly marked effect on the way we work. The largest flexible working experiment ever conducted has taken place out of necessity, and the early signs are that it will leave a lasting change in work culture. More workers than ever before…

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Talent Acquisition

How Will Technology Change Work in the Future?

The buzzword nowadays is AI, and there has been non-stop debate over how work will change in the future. By 2020, experts predict about seven million jobs will be lost and two million gained as a result of technological development. It is no doubt that we will see a dramatic re-shape within the working environment, and…

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Employer Branding

Should We Implant Microchips in Our Employees?

The future is here, and our integration with technology has begun. For years now we have been integrating technology into our daily lives and engaging with different technologies on a constant basis. Imagine life without internet connectivity or your mobile phone? There’s no way we can live without either. We are seeing advances in technology…

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Employer Branding

5 Ways to Help You Understand Your Social Employer Brand

The ability to attract, as well as retain, your ideal employee is integral to your business. Attracting that individual can be very competitive and in today’s modern mobile climate, one of the best ways to compete is to create a strong social employer brand. 1. Understand each platform Each social platform has its own unique…

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3 Industries Facing the Recruitment Struggles of Brexit Right Now

The BBC has recently reported that ‘unemployment is at its lowest rate since records began in 1975’. It’s a great fact, a monumental one in fact for the British public. So what’s the problem then? A Brexit Barometer report put together by Innovantage, Bond International Software, and TempBuddy has revealed that industries with high dependency…

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4 Ways Apps are Increasing Productivity at Work

You might have heard of the slogan ‘there’s an app for that’, one used (and now trademarked) by Apple in 2009 during a series of TV ads they ran to promote the multiplicity of apps available on their ever-popular App store. Well this slogan is especially true to productivity in your workplace. Whether you want to…

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Employer Branding

3 Technology Trends that are Revolutionizing Corporate Wellness

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…

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How to Obtain Decent Work

I recently attended a conference that focused on career development and various current research trends in this area. One thing that surprised many individuals at the conference is the desire to seek decent work, and the concept of decent work for all individuals. Taken from definition of decent work as identified by the International Labour…

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How to Tweak Your Job to Come Home More Energised

Have you ever come home feeling completely flat and exhausted and on other days buzzing and energised and wondered why that is? What you do, who you see, who you interact with and the feedback you are given within that day could give you all the clues that you need. Once this information is known…