The results of a global survey of business leaders, undertaken to establish the sentiment surrounding robotics, tells a slightly different story in terms of the business perceptions surrounding automation and how open they are to embracing the technology.
Despite the recent enthusiasm for wellness initiatives, UK bosses have been dubbed strict by their staff, with 54.6 per cent feeling there is now less tolerance at work.
School’s almost out, the weather has cheered up and your employees can’t wait to get away from the office. Staff engagement is at its lowest during the summer, more than any other time of year, as staff look forward to their holidays or generally resent being stuck indoors while the sun is out – there are ways to manage this, however.
Founding father Benjamin Franklin was a renown polymath, and he didn’t get to that point by lazing about. In fact, he became a scientist, writer and so much more by embracing a simple rule – one which many business leaders of today have implemented into their busy schedules.
By Paul Redmond
Paul Redmond looks into the direct impact employees’ financial worries are having on workplace performance and the challenges it presents to employers.
For the past few days the sun has been out during office hours, only to change into torrential storms when time comes for staff to go home. Possibly having noticed how employees drag their feet and feel less motivated during such times, bosses have started to let them leave early on Fridays.
“The culture of presenteeism is going to kill British workers” – that’s an actual title from an article in The Guardian outlining how working longer hours definitely doesn’t make us more productive. Now it seems staff feel their extra efforts have been in vain.
By Rahul Parekh
Collaboration is a wonderful concept – there is no “one size fits all” model and your business can collaborate with almost any brand spanning virtually all sectors if it meets your objectives and is implemented correctly.
With the National Living Wage (NLW) still being met with reluctance, we asked eight small business leaders what they thought of the Living Wage – and why they embraced it.
By Chris Cook
According to research from payroll services company Moorepay, the annual cost of the newly introduced national living wage to the UK’s smaller firms will be around £1.67bn.
