Making a new employee feel welcome is often lost office tours, mission statements and paperwork. By making new employees feel genuinely welcome and appreciated, you can instil loyalty and be confident of a lower staff turnover. You’ll also find that happy, welcome employees will improve your bottom line, being more productive and passionate about their… Read more »
Posts By: Stella Yeomans
What You Need to Know about Paternity Leave
If you’re taking time off due to your partner having a new baby, adoption or having a baby through surrogacy, you may find you’re entitled to the following: 1 or 2 weeks paternity leave For children due or put up for adoption before 5 April 2015, up to 26 weeks’ paid Additional Paternity Leave For… Read more »
Everything You Need to Know About Sick Leave
Every autumn, employers see an increase in the number of staff on sick leave due to the flu. Whilst in this case employees don’t take more than seven days off work, some employees and employers may not know the government framework surrounding sick leave. Our experience of employment law means we can clearly explain where… Read more »
Why Employers Need to Take a Positive Stance on Mental Health
With recent research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) reporting an increase in the cases of staff reporting mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, more employers are having to pay extra attention to the Equality Act 2010, where they must be sure not to discriminate against those with mental health… Read more »
How to deal with a biased boss
We often hear of discrimination in the work place amongst staff members, but we don’t often here about prejudices from management. Biased bosses do exist though, and they’re a massive issue for thousands of employees up and down the country.
How to ensure you never get sick at work
People turn into work sick every day. From colds to tummy bugs, they force themselves to get through the day. But doing this often causes more problems. You aren’t helping yourself get better by stressing your way through a working day, and you’re increasing the risk that other people in the office will get sick.
What Causes Workplace Grievances?
A happy workplace is a fun and productive place to be, keep staff motivated, nurture them, provide them with ample opportunity to grow and achieve their potential, and what could possibly go wrong? Actually quite a lot is the answer, worker grievances have this nasty habit of cropping up without warning. Mistakenly, you think everyone… Read more »
How to build a good working relationship with your boss
Unfortunately many people have a hard time seeing eye to eye with their boss. Maybe it’s because they don’t like being told what to do, or maybe their boss just isn’t fair. But your boss is the one employee you need to build a good relationship with. They call the shots for your workload; they… Read more »
How to deal with workplace conflicts
Working environments are often stressful places. There are deadlines to meet, standards to hit, and people you must work alongside. This can quickly cause tension, and tension will often lead to a conflict between the business and an employee, or between colleagues. Dealing with these sorts of conflicts however, is often a sensitive matter. To… Read more »
Tips For Avoiding Workplace Stress At Christmas Time
It’s that time of year again where businesses get particularly busy and many employees start to feel the strain. Suffering from stress towards Christmas time is increasingly common but there are a number of ways to tackle the rising pressures and demands in order to remain productive. Letting stress affect your job is dangerous which… Read more »