Digital Republic
2020, a year that many would prefer to forget. A year that saw technology businesses face unprecedented challenges, revenues threatened and significant impacts on company growth and hiring strategies. It was also the year that saw the UK strike a deal with the European Union, end the 11-month transition period and exit the EU single
2020 was the year that HR was required to react to the unexpected, but it’s now time to plan for the known challenges in the coming year. We look at what HR can do to prepare for 2021. 1. Be ready for the new immigration system The end of the Brexit transition period means that
The coronavirus outbreak has led to some major transformations in all areas of the workplace. In particular, the pandemic had a major impact on employee benefits with two- fifths (42%) of the companies planning to make changes to their benefit programmes. Recent data suggest that supporting employees by enhancing health care, wellbeing and paid leave
With a great many of us still working from home, how can you hope to get promoted if you aren’t in the office? What’s the best way to make your boss notice you, and to stand out from your colleagues? Salesman John says that you have to regard the emails you send to your manager
As most of us are in lockdown at home, we are left to wonder what a post-coronavirus-world might look like. There’s a lot unknown about how the world will transform after we get the novel coronavirus under control, but it is extremely unlikely that things will just go back to exactly the way they were
Here, we look at some of the considerations that HR and business leaders need to make when assessing whether staff should work from home – regardless of whether they have been told to self-isolate. Technology According to a poll of 81 HR professionals by Incomes Data Research, just 4% of businesses can facilitate their entire
You may have noticed the 9-to-5 workday is disappearing. We increasingly live our lives according to our individual schedules, although these are rarely completely within our individual control. As our working lives become increasingly 24-7, our new research suggests there’s now an additional task to do in our families and friendships. We need to work harder than
One company in Germany is letting employees work five hours a day — as long as they don’t mind giving up their phones. The Wall Street Journal’s Eric Morath recently reported on Rheingans Digital Enabler, a Bielefeld-based consulting firm that only operates five hours a day. Lasse Rheingans, the company’s chief officer, said he implemented a shorter
Originally posted by Bernard Marr As the world evolves to embrace the 4th industrial revolution, our workplaces are changing. Just as other industrial revolutions transformed the skillset and experience required from the workforce, we can expect the same from this revolution. Only five years from now, 35 percent of the skills seen as essential today will change according
Posted by Richard Manso, Founder & Director of Digital Republic Recruitment Being a business owner, thinking about the wellbeing of my employees is part of the territory but when I was asked to write a blog about my experience having worked in the business for over twenty years I realized a couple of things: 1)
