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Leaders who rely solely on functional HR are missing a vital link in their business strategy. If you employ people, now is the time for HR to be top of your agenda. In times of crisis, it’s easy to lose sight of your long term goals and focus purely on firefighting day to day issues […]

Stop demonising employers!!! They are real people trying to run a business to support their families, and yours. I get that you’re scared of the Coronavirus and that’s a valid fear. I know you don’t want to catch it, or your family to do so or pass it on to others. Employers don’t want that […]

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) are encouraging businesses to adopt the following test before bringing back those employees who are unable to work from home: 1.Is it essential? If your employees can continue to work from home, then they must do so. If they are unable to work from home, then you […]

We are in week 7 of lockdown and UK businesses are continuing to report a significant downturn in work. The fear is that the continued lockdown could have a significant long-term detrimental effect on their business and consequently their workforce. We are starting to have conversations about changes to T&Cs and redundancies. A recent CIPD […]

As we are urged to restrict social contact in order to protect vulnerable members of our society, some employees are disclosing personal health challenges and details of medical conditions suffered by people close to them in order to justify their reasons for choosing to self-isolate, even though they don’t have any symptoms of the virus. […]

Our clients are starting to postpone on site meetings with us and we have had to ask some staff to work from home. The effects of the Coronavirus are starting to feel real now. As a small business, we’re hanging on in there, trying to maintain business as usual but we’re in a fortunate position […]

The World Health Organisation has advised that we should act “as if the virus is going to show up tomorrow. [We’re] in an interconnected world.” Planning for this has been on the agenda for global businesses for weeks but with the virus now hitting Europe, the time has come for us all to think about […]

Engagement. The latest buzzword in HR and one that has created great confusion and uncertainty in the workplace. Employee engagement is the term used to explain how committed your employees are to your company; it’s the emotional commitment that the employees have to the business and its goals and how driven they are to come […]

You employ staff, you’re not quite happy with how things are going but you just keep putting off dealing with the real issues. The water level is rising and you’re feeling the strain. Out of date contracts? High turnover of staff? Low productivity? Poor management? Disengaged staff? Sound familiar?! It’s unlikely to get better on […]

Today I spent some time with Jayne, our Director of HR Services to ask questions such as “why HR?”, “why Guardian?” and “why pick Jayne as your first point of call for HR services?”