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Right to Work and the EU Transition
3 months ago by Kevin MinnisOn 1 January 2021 freedom of movement with the EU will end and a new immigration system takes effect. With the full rules and details recently published, now is the time for employers to make final preparations so they are ready for this important date. Available to watch on-demand, our 'Right to Work and the EU Transition' webinar is hosted by ManpowerGroup Compliance Dire...
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Boosting employee's balance working from home
4 months ago by Kevin MinnisProviding mental health support and encouraging check-ins and downtime can help organisations enhance the benefits of a remote work environment for employees. The massive shift to working from home has been beneficial for many employees. In a recent ManpowerGroup Future of Work survey, 8 in 10 respondents stated they wanted more remote work options to better balance family l...
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Helping employees combat burnout
4 months ago by Kevin MinnisWhen stress and concern are on the rise for today’s workforce, accessible wellbeing support is key. In March when Covid-19 upended the way millions of UK workers operate, many workplaces went into emergency mode, which required long hours and extreme focus to make necessary shifts for survival. As the pandemic continues, we’re seeing dips in motivation and focus. Organisatio...
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Contact Centre Virtual Roundtable - Diversity & Inclusion in the Contact Centre - Push or Pull?
5 months ago by Kevin MinnisThe events of 2020 have brought diversity and Inclusion (D&I) to the forefront for many organisations. The global outbreak of COVID-19 forced many longstanding beliefs and practices to be reconsidered and reconstructed in a matter of days or weeks. Similarly, events catalysed in the US in May and the subsequent focus on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement globally, has pus...
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Thinking differently about what workers want
6 months ago by Kevin MinnisThe COVID-19 crisis has done little to slow the increasing appetite for flexibility among UK workers. While the transition to remote working has brought many challenges – balancing work and parental responsibilities, maintaining our mental health – it’s a change that many workers have embraced, and one that has them stating their claim for more flexibility in future. But how...
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Maintaining a strong employer brand in a candidate flooded market
6 months ago by Kevin MinnisAs the Bank of England recently set out its yearly annual economic forecasts, its projection that unemployment would reach 7.5% by the end of 2020 casts a very different picture to the one we saw pre the global health crisis. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the UK was experiencing the tightest labour market in a generation, with talent shortages in key skills across a range ...
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Is COVID-19 impacting the UK gender pay gap?
7 months ago by Kevin MinnisCovid-19 has not only had devastating health consequences; since March 2020 we have seen that the economic repercussions of the pandemic are also placing unprecedented pressure on the world of work. But recent research suggests that in, the United Kingdom, this pressure isn’t being distributed equally across the workforce. To date, women have suffered a larger fall in earnin...
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How to ensure Generation Z is not lost to the pandemic
7 months ago by Kevin MinnisWhen the UK Chancellor unveiled a £2bn ‘kick start jobs scheme’ for young people in early July – which will see the government subsidise job placements for 16-24 year-olds on Universal Credit – it was done so with the goal of preventing an entire generation being “left behind” from COVID-19. Like in the 2008 financial crisis, where the path to career growth was limited for m...
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Contact Centre Virtual Roundtable
7 months ago by Sonja TownsendCoronavirus has forced unprecedented change upon the contact centre. The sector which employs c. 1.3 million Britons, has very quickly had to adapt to a decentralised way of working. Prior to the pandemic only around 10-20% of the UK contact centre workforce worked from home, according to the CCMA. The sector had to quickly adapt, testing every prior technology and tool in t...
