Category: Employee Experience

Research Finds Chocolate can Boost Employee Engagement

Scientists have found that offering employees chocolate could be the key to increased workplace productivity. Researchers at London Metropolitan University worked with gift firm Bloom & Wild to see if offering staff chocolate and prompting the body to produce the ‘love hormone’...

Bust Ghosting in the Workplace

Usually referring to romantic relationships or friendships, when one partner starts to ignore the other without any explanation, the practice of ‘ghosting’ has now hit the workplace. It refers to situations when employees walk out of their jobs without so much...

It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts: From EX to CX

Richard Branson is famously quoted as saying: “I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.” Although Mr Branson’s well-used pearls of...

BSC Focuses on Wellbeing at Work

Research by the British Safety Council has identified significant levels of uncertainty in the UK about wellbeing at work. Its new report Not just free fruit: wellbeing at work, found that employee wellbeing is often ignored or misunderstood, with employers unsure how...

Mark Seemann: Bringing Employee Engagement Into the Digital Era

Mark Seemann is a UK tech pioneer and telecommunications trailblazer who is now CEO of StaffCircle, a firm providing a work platform that improves internal communication and feedback for employees. StaffCircle digitises sentiment, awards, communication, training, ideas, tasks, holidays, and directory and...

Salaries to Remain Static as Businesses Brace for Brexit

Professional salaries in the UK will remain relatively flat in 2019, as Britain’s pending departure from the EU impacts employee confidence and business willingness to spend. The findings come from the annual Salary Survey produced by global recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. “Uncertainty around Brexit has...

The art of Conflict Resolution

People often assume that conflict is always negative, but this is not true.People are inherently different, and conflict simply happens when those differences come to light. Viewing conflict in this way can help us maximise the possible positive outcomes of...

Blues Bothers: Mental Health Remains Taboo Talk in Workplace

Mental health in the workplace remains a difficult subject, with most professionals uncomfortable discussing issues with colleagues, research has found. The findings are included in a whitepaper from recruitment consultancy Robert Walters ahead of Blue Monday (21 January), which is commonly cited as the most...

Dubai to Host Workers Incentives Conference

The First Workers Incentives and End of Service Benefits Conference & Exhibition will take place in Dubai in February.Under the patronage of the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, the event will be organised by Mondial Dubai LLC, the leading financial advisory...

Meet & Veg: ‘Pointless’ Meetings Costing Companies

Poorly organised meetings are costing time and money for the UK’s employees, a new report has found. Online scheduling platform Doodle has released its The Doodle State of Meetings Report 2019, based on data and new research conducted with 6,528 professionals in...