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A Guide to the New Carers’ Leave Act
A report issued by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found that 72% of carers in the UK are providing care in addition to full-time paid work. In response to this enormous number, the Carers’ Leave Act was laid before Parliament at the latter end of 2023, and from April 6th 2024, it will […]
US Salaries Surging for Fully In-Office Jobs | BBC Worklife
While many jobs still offer hybrid- or remote-working patterns, more bosses are mandating their employees to return to the office on a full-time basis. But for some of these companies, getting workers fully back on-site comes with a high price tag. This is particularly the case in the US, which has seen the most dramatic shift […]
Coaching Hermione Granger: Session One
You’re Coaching Whom? Here’s how it started… With March being Women’s History Month, at the beginning of the month I was chatting with a colleague and we thought about how amazing it would be to have had the chance to coach a famous woman from history. What an experience it could be to understand what […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Christian Fernandez
I am delighted to be welcoming Christian Fernandez to the OrgShakers team! Christian is a Future of Work, Talent Transformation and Work Optimization Leader with 15 years of strategy development and execution in Agile Business Transformation, Organization Design & Effectiveness, and Process Re-engineering. A unique combination of Industrial Engineering and Organizational Development experience has allowed […]
A Good Salary Isn’t Enough to Make Employees Happy Anymore, and Here’s Why
Happy employees are productive employees – 13% more productive to be exact. But in days past, keeping an employee ‘happy’ was usually intrinsically linked with the amount of money they were being paid. If their salary was good, and their performance was methodically rewarded, then this tended to spark contentment in the general worker. However, […]
Why Having LGBTQ+ Inclusion Strategies at the Heart of Your Business is Good for Business
Gen Z are flooding into the workplace, and with this assimilation they bring to light conversations around work-life balance, environmentalism, and the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). And it is no wonder we’re seeing the latter take place; a recent study discovered that 36% of students and graduates identify as LGBTQ+. And yet, […]
What is ‘Coffee Badging’ and Are Your Employees Doing It?
That’s right – another buzzword has entered the mix. ‘Coffee badging’ may sound a bit peculiar, but it is essentially when an employee comes into the office very briefly, taps in with their identity card, then grabs a coffee and mingles with colleagues for a short stint before leaving to work the rest of the […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Karen Cerrato
I am delighted to be welcoming Karen Cerrato to the OrgShakers team! Karen is a seasoned HR professional with vast experience in Human Resources and a passion for high growth and fast paced environments. Most recently, Karen served as the Director of Human Resources for Lennox National Account Services, a division of Lennox International Inc., […]
A Paradigm Shift in HR: LSEG’s Global Parental Leave Policy Sets a New Standard
In a move that underscores the evolving landscape of workplace benefits, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has recently unveiled a groundbreaking parental leave policy. Effective from 1 July 2024, this policy not only represents a significant step forward in the realm of employee benefits, but also marks an important shift in the paradigm for […]
What We’re Reading: The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart
With International Women’s Day on the horizon, and Women’s History Month now in full swing, we have been reading The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart. Sieghart spent 20 years as Assistant Editor of The Times and is currently […]
Age Discrimination at Work is Really Starting to Get Old
37% of people in their 50s and 60s in the UK have experienced age discrimination in the past year, most commonly in the workplace. And in the US around two-thirds of over-50 adults believe older workers are facing age discrimination at work. Ageism has always been something that seemingly slips through the cracks. Throwaway comments […]
Where has the Metaverse Gone, and is it Coming Back?
Do you remember the metaverse? In the latter half of 2022, the hype surrounding the metaverse had reached an all-time high. Employers and HR professionals were preparing to usher in this digital working world, and had begun to examine what considerations would have to be taken into account when working with an avatar of oneself. […]
