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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.
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.
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.
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.
Plan B Coronavirus Restrictions Ending in England - What does this mean for your business?
Plan B Coronavirus are restrictions coming to an end, meaning yet another shift for businesses and employees. How will this change affect your business?
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.
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?
Should employers stop asking employees about salary history?
A campaign group is urging UK employers to stop asking jobseekers about their previous salaries in a bid to try to minimise pay inequality in the workplace.
Bath HR Network flexible and hybrid working event - Thursday 25th November
We are excited to announce that the Bath HR Network is holding an in-person event on Thursday 25th November in partnership with Cognisess & Mitchell Law.
Final day of Furlough - 1 million people in limbo as thousands of employees face further redundancies
Uncertainty looms for the future of almost one million furloughed employees as the government’s £70bn support programme ends today, after helping out millions of workers across the UK over the last 18 months.
Government confirms plans to improve flexible working and carers' rights
Government announces plans to make the right to request flexible working a day one right, as well as new entitlements for unpaid carers.
Final days of Furlough - When does it end?
With the Furlough scheme due to come to a complete end on 30th September, how many employees are still utilising the income support scheme?
"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.
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:
Bath HR Network Virtual Coffee Morning with Workplace Wellness
The Bath HR Network are delighted to be joined by one of our regular contributors, Workplace Wellness, for our next virtual coffee morning on Wednesday 14th July at 10:30am.
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
A diverse workforce is not only legally compliant and morally correct, it can also offer a great range of benefits to the business.