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Is your business promoting sustainability?

Promoting sustainability can be beneficial in many ways for your business; it can help you to stay ahead of incoming regulations, build your reputation and trust with customers and potential employees.

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What Trends are HR Leaders Focusing on in 2022?

Many top HR priorities for 2022 reflect an urgent response to its identified HR trends, which are forcing organisations to change their workforce and workplace strategies. This, in turn, means HR leaders are having to evolve the way they identify, attract and retain critical skills and redesign work to enhance the employee value proposition (EVP) and drive business performance.

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Sickness and absence in the workplace because of long COVID

For some people, coronavirus (COVID-19) can cause symptoms that last weeks or months after the infection, often referred to as 'long-tail COVID' or 'long COVID'.

Long COVID symptoms could affect someone's ability to work or cause them to take sickness absence.

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Diversity and Inclusion Opportunities in the Workplace - Post-Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered an exciting opportunity to employers to access a vastly increased talent pool. It has showed us that remote working is not only an acceptable alternative to working in the office, but can be a highly productive strategy for business success.

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Employee Appreciation Ideas Your Staff Will Love

As we steamroller towards Christmas, you may be thinking of ways to show appreciation for your staff, particularly at the end of what has been a challenging year for many businesses. We’ve listed 15 ideas here for you to consider.

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Hybrid Leadership - A unique opportunity to grow and develop?

The rapid move towards more hybrid working is just another part of the ongoing huge volatility in the world, with seismic change just around the corner at any given moment, but could this be an opportunity for leaders to grow and develop?

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"No jab, no job"

The “No jab, No job” topic has sparked debate again after multiple large corporations have said they will be restricting office access to any employees who have not been vaccinated in the US.

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How to reduce employee anxiety when reopening your workplace

The return to work needs to be handled carefully as employees with health conditions and employees who cohabit with people with health conditions may have legitimate reasons not to return to work. Here are some ways to alleviate anxiety:

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