Inspired by the global disruption to traditional working practices caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, is a hybrid model of working where employees work part-time from the workplace and part-time from home, suited to your organisation? In last month’s blog post, we looked at the overriding changes organisations would need to consider when making the shift
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The global, government-initiated responses to Covid-19 have meant that many organisations have had to close their offices indefinitely, with many employees moving to homeworking. This massive change brought to the forefront the need to adjust processes, to embrace digital communications, and, through a situation rarely dealt with prior to the pandemic – the need to
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The global occurrence of Covid-19 and the subsequent restrictions, regulations, safeguards and now vaccines created to combat it have raised many discussions on workplace health and safety, managing risk, personal choice and freedom, privacy, and many more that will undoubtedly develop as the year progresses. Therefore, this month’s blog is a Q&A, featuring the most
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We last wrote about Brexit in February 2020, just weeks before the world was turned on its head by a global pandemic and associated lockdowns. After dominating the headlines for months, Brexit coverage suddenly took a back seat to Covid-19. The UK transition period for leaving the EU was no longer the most urgent focus
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Every year, UK Employment Legislation sees a number of changes, to accommodate new precedents set by cases and court rulings, and to reflect changes to lifestyles, societal needs, political landscapes and more. I think we can probably all agree that 2020, possibly more so than any other year in recent memory, handed those out in
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Back in July 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson advised that workers should “start to go back to work if [they] can” Whilst this advice has once again shifted (he is now saying that people should work from home again, where they can!), what is clear is that it is essential that employers are responsible for
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Winter is on its way (not that you would know with the temperatures we are currently experiencing!). It will soon be time for warmer clothing, hot drinks, cozy environments with an open log fire, and lots more time indoors with colleagues, family and friends. Right, now that we have lured you in gently, here’s the
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Has your organisation ever fallen foul to an email virus or phishing scam? Whether you have been directly affected or not, it’s likely that we have all witnessed a potential threat or scam land in our inboxes. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has taken these threats to a whole new level. Online scammers and hackers have
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In our June Blog, we discussed steps for running an organisation in a time post-Covid-19. However, getting back to ‘normal’ is about more than simply the operational practicalities. Although many of us will have experienced periods of anxiety, stress and loneliness during the pandemic and at times these feelings may have overwhelmed us, when things
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How did you envisage your first six months of 2020 to be? I suspect it is fair to say that in January none of us could have envisioned that this is where we would be in June 2020, living and working in a vastly different world. The global shutdowns and localised lockdowns are affecting organisations
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