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Tourism sector failing to offer dignity in employment

Aphrodite Papadatou Friday, February 8, 2019 0 Comment HR, poor employment, research, sustainability, tourism and hospitality

What constitutes ‘decent work’?

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Half of UK workforce would trade 9-5 for seven day flexibility

Aphrodite Papadatou Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1 Comment employee rewards, employee survey, Flexible working, flexitime, HR, HR news, HR Strategy, nine to five, organisational design, research, rewards news, seven day working week, uk employees, work flexibility, Worksome

With employees looking for more control over their work-life balance, businesses must offer more flexibility or risk losing workers.

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Why is your boss your least likely Facebook friend?

Aphrodite Papadatou Monday, February 4, 2019 0 Comment Boss, Colleagues, company boss, employee survey, Envirofone, Facebook, facebook friends, Office behaviour, research, social media, social media survey

We find that social media faux pas are most definitely not worth the trouble.

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Skills crisis as UK employers fail to upskill their workers

Aphrodite Papadatou Friday, February 1, 2019 0 Comment city and guilds group, employee learning, employee survey, Learning, learning and development, learning and development news, Learning strategy, research, skills crisis, staff development., training and development, unipart, upskilling

A third of workers in Great Britain – and almost half of those aged 55 and over – did not learn any new workplace skills last year.

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1 of 5 British children want a career as social media influencers

Aphrodite Papadatou Thursday, January 31, 2019 0 Comment Aspirations, Awin, Career aspirations, careers, children, influencers, instagram, new generation, parent survey, Parents, research, social media, social media influencers, youtube

YouTuber over firefighter? Such are the aspirations of of modern children.

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Two out of three Brits suffer ‘Sunday night fear’

Aphrodite Papadatou Monday, January 28, 2019 0 Comment british workers, employee mental health, employee morale, love Monday, monday blues, Reed. employee survey, research, Sunday night fear, unhappy workers, wellbeing in the workplace, working week

How fearful are you of Mondays?

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Millennials on the move: 3 in 10 have already clocked up five or more jobs

Aphrodite Papadatou Thursday, January 24, 2019 0 Comment diverse careers, diverse workforce, employee survey, Employers, fast recruitment, Generation gap, generational differences, Millennials, portfolio career, recruiting, recruitment, recruitment news, research, Switching Jobs, tempo, UK labour market

The job for life is well and truly over.

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A third of SME employees quit job due to work-related frustration

Aphrodite Papadatou Thursday, January 24, 2019 0 Comment bad management, employee behaviour, learning and development, learning and development news, micromanagement, Process Bliss, quit, quitting job, report, research, small businesses, SME, staff management, stress, stress at work, study, worker stress, workforce training, workplace research

New research finds why SME workers are highly likely to quit their job over work stress.

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Ghosting rife in recruitment

Aphrodite Papadatou Tuesday, January 22, 2019 0 Comment bad dates, Behaviour, catfishing, ghosting, JamieAi, jobseekers survey, recruiting, recruitment, recruitment news, research, submarining, uk jobseekers. recruiter behaviours, uk recruiters

And you thought you had a bad date?

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Stephen Deuchar: ’30 minutes a day paints a brighter future for anxious Britain’

Aphrodite Papadatou Tuesday, January 22, 2019 1 Comment anxiety in the workplace, art, Art Fund, british employees, Corporate Art Pass, e, Employee benefits, employee engagement programme, employee mental health, employee rewards, employee wellbeing, hr interview, report, research, Stephen Deuchar, wellbeing in the workplace

Art Fund’s Director talks to HRreview about all things art and anxiety in the workplace.

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Retail industry has unhappiest workers in UK

Aphrodite Papadatou Monday, January 21, 2019 0 Comment Adzuna, Blue Monday, Data, employee survey, gender pay reporting, pay rises, recruitment news, regional pay, regional variation, research, retail, retail jobs, retail workers, salary data, UK labour market, unhappy workers, women at work

We find out about the least miserable and most happy workers in the UK

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What is Blue Monday and how to beat it.

Aphrodite Papadatou Monday, January 21, 2019 0 Comment 'always on' culture, Blue Monday, CoreHR, Depression, employee mental health, employee survey, Flexible working, january blues, learning and development, Maintel, Mental health, Mobile technology, research, sickness absence, teleware, UK workers, work life balance, workplace culture

Employees who are finding it increasingly difficult to disconnect from the demands of work in the post-festive season suffer mental health issues.

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Part-time working mothers do more work without pay

Aphrodite Papadatou Wednesday, January 16, 2019 0 Comment diversity news, Flexible working, flexitime, Gender bias, Gender discrimination, Gender pay gap, Mothers, Overtime, Part time, part time workers, research, university of kent, upaid overtime, working mothers, Workplace diversity

Working mothers feel  stigma which manifests in a shocking way.

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Millennials and over 55s underestimate pensions

Aphrodite Papadatou Friday, January 11, 2019 0 Comment Contributory pensions, employee rewards, employee survey, Millennials, MymoneySupermarket, over 55s, pension gender gap, Pensions, research, rewards news, salary pensions, uk employees

New research has found many people in the UK haven’t even started thinking about saving for when they stop working.

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Government urged to remove barriers to employer investment in apprenticeships

Aphrodite Papadatou Friday, January 11, 2019 0 Comment apprenticeship levy, apprenticeship policy, apprenticeship report, Apprenticeship schemes, city and guilds group, employer investment, employer survey, learning and development, report, research, UK employers

According to the City & Guilds Group, an overwhelming 92 per cent of levy-paying employers want to see greater flexibility in how they can spend their apprenticeship allowance.

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