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Leveraging Human Resources for Enhanced Cybersecurity: A Collaborative Approach
In an era of escalating cyber threats, the symbiotic relationship between Human Resources (HR) and cybersecurity has never been more pivotal. Typically seen as the custodians of employee wellbeing and organizational culture, HR professionals are crucial in reinforcing a company’s defence mechanisms against cyberattacks. By facilitate regular training sessions and workshops, HR can help to […]
Do You Have a Policy for Miscarriage Leave?
The taboos around health and wellbeing in the workplace are slowly beginning to shed their stigma; menopause policies are being discussed, mental health is being prioritized, and employers continue to look for innovate ways of boosting productivity through creating happier employees. However, there are still some topics that are failing to be considered by a […]
What is the Next Step in the Evolution of the Workplace?
To understand the next step in the evolution of the workplace, we have to start in a place with apparently little or no connection to modern working practices – the middle of the last Ice Age. Cro-Magnons – the first modern humans – arrived in Europe around 35,000 years ago. Nomadic hunter-gatherers who lived in […]
What We’re Reading: This is Dyslexia by Kate Griggs
This month’s book choice was inspired by the fact that today is World Dyslexia Awareness Day – which closes off Dyslexia Awareness Week. In the spirit of this, we got our hands on a copy of Kate Grigg’s This is Dyslexia. Kate, who is dyslexic herself, is the founder and CEO of the charity Made […]
OrgShakers Welcomes Lisa Finkelstein
I am delighted to welcome Lisa Finkelstein to the OrgShakers team. Lisa works with C-suite leaders and senior leadership teams to transform how they lead to drive excellence, to compete in disruptive environments, to navigate change and build for the future. She assures alignment to build sustainable practices and deliver measurable impact to achieve business […]
Why the 85:15 Rule Might be the Key to Tackling Burnout
Encouraging individuals to ‘give it 100%’ is a well-worn cliché. But is it actually the best way to optimize personal performance? Those advocating the 85:15 rule – working at 85% capacity and keeping 15% for yourself – would beg to differ. The 85:15 rule is thought to have stemmed from a technique used by Olympian […]
Employees Are Getting Less Sleep: How Is This Affecting Their Work?
The Healthier Nation Index report has recently been published, revealing some startling statistics about sleeping patterns. People are now getting less than 6 hours a night of sleep – which is a sizeable difference to the 7-9 hours of sleep recommended by the UK’s National Health Service. This drop seems to be due to the […]
What is the Recipe for a ‘Happy Employee’?
It is probably well known by now that happy employees are more productive – in fact, according to research from Oxford University, those employees that are happier are around 13% more productive. But ‘happiness’ is one of those elusive terms, in the sense that it can relate to a lot of different factors. For employers […]
Press Release: Executive Onboarding Program
Odgers Berndtson and SurePeople Join Forces to Revolutionize Executive Onboarding with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Prism Psychometrics, and World-Class Content by Harvard Business Publishing New York, 26th September 2023 – Odgers Berndtson and SurePeople are reinventing Executive Onboarding with the launch of a ground-breaking new program leveraging SurePeople’s award-winning platform, powered by the Prism® psychometric algorithm […]
Recent Direct Line tribunal rules menopause a disability | HR Magazine
Maxine Lynskey, a former consultant for Direct Line, was recently awarded over £64,000 in damages after a tribunal ruled her menopause symptoms as a ‘disability’ under the 2010 Equality Act when her former employer failed to make the correct reasonable adjustments. After working there for 4 years, she began to experience consistent menopausal symptoms of […]
From ‘Quiet Quitting’ to ‘Lazy Girl Jobs’: Are These Misnomers Doing More Harm than Good?
Emerging from a pandemic which saw a huge shift in mindset for the current workforce, the trend of ‘Quiet Quitting’ surfaced as a way for employees to set boundaries around the work they do and the timeframe they do it in. Looked at objectively, this was employees taking responsibility for their own work-life balance and […]
What We’re Reading: The Happiness Index by Matt Phelan
Matt Phelan’s new book – The Happiness Index – is released today … and we’ve been lucky enough to get a sneak preview of what we think is a ‘must read’ for HR practitioners and business leaders. As the co-founder of a unique platform which helps organisations measure key employee engagement and happiness drivers (also […]
