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How you can avoid the end of season performance slump – without acting like Scrooge
It has to be one of the big paradoxes of the business cycle. December is one of the busiest times of the year for many organisations yet, by the middle of the month, with the staff parties over and people absent through a combination of sickness and claiming big chunks of outstanding annual leave,
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ArticlesEdenred launches webinars as part of new free Parent Hub service for working parents
Edenred has launched a programme of webinars for working parents as the latest addition to its free Parent Hub online advice channel for customers. The content of the webinars is based on feedback from working parents about the key parenting issues on which they would like to have more advice and
Working parents – why your organisation needs a new plan for 2013
What is your organisation planning to do for its working parents in 2013? You may not have asked yourself the question but reflecting on ten days of media interest, it’s one that I think smart employers should be thinking about as it looks like being a debate which won’t go away. For a start
The Daycare Trust’s Annual Conference reveals interesting statistics for working parents
I spent an interesting day on Wednesday at the Daycare Trust’s annual conference in the Commonwealth Club. As well as providing an excellent opportunity to network with peers from the childcare industry, the day provided thought provoking discussions and presentations from expert speakers. The
When it comes to performance, it’s the managers that matter: we’re just the support crew
This week Engage for Success launched as a movement to bring the issue of employee engagement to the fore in UK organisations. Of all the talk about the importance of leadership, communication and listening, the one thing which stuck out for me was the critical role of the manager as the people who
Shared Parental Leave: an opportunity disguised as hard work
This week Nick Clegg formally advanced his proposals to allow mothers and fathers to share parental leave from the workplace. Already, the battle lines are drawn with predictable names on either side. From one corner, employer groups complain that it is just another burden on business. In the
Why reward matters when you want employees to value the values
This week saw the annual jamboree in Manchester for the HR community, the CIPD conference. Rising above the usual brow-beating about how HR can remain relevant to organisations, one of the big headlines came from a CIPD survey which found that for many employees, “the values of the organisations
Living Wage Week: Don’t just think about the money
Next week is Living Wage Week when, from this year onwards, a figure will be published for the minimum hourly rate that staff should be paid in order for them to be able to meet the basic costs of living. It’s a voluntary scheme where ‘Living Wage employers’ who support the campaign choose
Support for working parents to address cuts in child benefit
Working parents can use salary sacrifice to reduce the impact of the cuts in child benefit, according to Laura Czapiewski, Product Manager – Childcare Vouchers at Edenred, the UK’s leading provider of childcare voucher benefits. The changes announced in the Budget in April will mean
Why employers need to know what’s on the mind of working parents
What’s on the mind of the working parents in your organisation? I’m sure you would like to think that most of the time it is getting a great job done while they are work and making a great contribution their employee. But of course life is more complicated than that. Nearly all of us have [...]
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