Andy Parsley

Andy advises senior HR leaders in the areas of employee insight (i.e.: the meaningful interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data), HR strategy development, and internal and external communications.

Fi Ai And Stress
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09th April 2025

Can AI Help Reduce Employee Burnout?

As employers, we are constantly looking for ways to improve employee wellbeing. One of the most prominent barriers to achieving this goal is employee burnout – a condition that is characterized by emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by heavy workloads, high expectations, and the ever-blurring lines between our work lives and our personal lives. […]

Fi 0 Reading Humanocracy
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08th April 2025

What We’re Reading: Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini

The corporate world can at times be guilty of adhering to traditional (and, dare we say, outdated!) bureaucratic systems that prioritize control and efficiency at the expense of creativity and motivation. Well, to challenge this issue, we grabbed ourselves a copy of Gary Hamel’s and Michele Zanini’s book, Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the […]

Fi Change Fatigue
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01st April 2025

Change Fatigue? You’re not alone!

The working world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by transformative forces such as new technologies, generative AI, geopolitical turbulence, and the assimilation of hybrid and remote working models. For HR professionals, these rapid changes present both opportunities and challenges, demanding agile approaches to ensure organizational readiness. A key concern is whether organizations are […]

Fi Transgender Visibility
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31st March 2025

Creating a Culture Where Transgender Employees Feel Safe to be Seen

As employers, one of the most fundamental responsibilities we are tasked with is fostering a workplace environment where all employees feel safe, valued, and empowered to be their authentic selves. However, for many transgender employees, the reality is quite different. In the US, one study found that half of transgender and non-binary people hide their […]

Fi World Theatre Day
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27th March 2025

All the World’s a Stage: So, what’s YOUR workplace persona?

In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the character Jaques famously declares, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”. In other words, all of us are, to some extent, putting on an act when interacting with the world around us. This is particularly resonant in the modern workplace, where employees […]

Fi Employe Happiness
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20th March 2025

How Can Employers Harness the Power of Happiness?

Many studies have shown that employee happiness is linked to their productivity – the most famous of these studies citing that employees are around 13% more productive when they feel happy at work. Employee happiness seems to be becoming a rising concern to employers; only a few months ago did Chinese company Pang Dong Lai […]

Fi Disabled Access Day
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17th March 2025

Beyond the Basics: The Most Overlooked Workplace Accessibility Needs

With 13.4% of the US population having one or more disability, as well as 23% of adults of working age in the UK, accessibility in the workplace has never been more important to ensuring that those employees who are differently abled are able to do their best work with the needed reasonable adjustments. For the […]

Fi Resenteeism
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13th March 2025

Resenteeism: Understanding and Tackling the Silent Productivity Killer

When an employee seems disengaged or downcast, they may be suffering a new phenomenon that’s becoming increasingly common in workplaces around the world – ‘resenteeism’. So, here’s a comprehensive look into this unproductive mentality, which has been dubbed the “silent productivity killer”. What is Resenteeism? Resenteeism happens when an employee stays in a job despite […]

Fi 0 Reading Alchemy Of Talent
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06th March 2025

What We’re Reading: The Alchemy of Talent by Vijay Pendakur

This month, we’ve been reading Vijay Pendakur’s debut book, The Alchemy of Talent: Leading Teams to Peak Performance. A global talent and culture leader, Vijay has seen the very real effects that change fatigue has had on employees after years of what has felt like constant disruption and uncertainty. In this book, he pools his […]

Fi Pancake Day
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04th March 2025

What the Humble Pancake Can Teach Us About Diverse Perspectives

Pancake Day has become widely popular in British culture over the years. Traditionally, Christians would eat pancakes on the last day before Lent – Shrove Tuesday – to use up things in the cupboard like flour, eggs and milk that they wouldn’t be eating during the 40 days before Easter. Today it has evolved into […]

Fi Eating Disorder
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25th February 2025

Eating Disorders: Challenging the Taboo

Eating disorders can often be a taboo topic in the workplace, laden with misconceptions that prevent employers from addressing them effectively. However, these disorders are more common than many realize, affecting around 1.25 million people in the UK, and almost 30 million in the US. Contrary to the stereotype that eating disorders mainly impact teenage girls, adults […]

Fi Age Limit
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19th February 2025

Stop picking on Midlife workers!

Research by the Centre for Aging Better has shown that, in the UK, 37% of people in their 50s and 60s in the UK have experienced age discrimination – predominantly in the workplace. And in the US, approximately two-thirds of over-50 adults believe older workers face age discrimination at work. It is, therefore, crucial for organizations […]

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