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The Why’s and Hows Of Staff Retention
The most obvious way to retain staff is to keep them happy. This can also keep up high performance and attract new, varied employees into your business. In terms of saving money, retaining staff means saving on advertisement, interviewing costs and extra training costs. Two of the most common motivators of choosing a job are location and salary, but these alone are not enough to ensure a prosperous workforce. There is no easy recipe that works [+]Don’t Accept The Swine Flu Excuse
New Government Rules Could Cost Your Business Swine flu is rapidly becoming a pandemic across the world, and the UK seems particularly hit. Just last week a think tank – Oxford Economics warned that a six-month Swine Flu pandemic in the UK could cost our already struggling economy £60 billion, thereby extending the recession by two years. Therefore, the illness cannot become an excuse for your employees to take sick leave as very well may happen according [+]How To Deal With Workload Stress
Spotting The Signs Is Easy... Right? You may believe that having too great a work load is easy to spot; however, many cultures seem to thrive on a pressured, deadline driven environment. This means many staff can work for months assuming that the stress they feel is normal. The build-up can also be so subtle that they learn to accommodate the increase in pressure. In some cases, the overload is internalised so that your employer could [+]Dealing With Swine Flu
If there is one other agenda competing for top spot in the media lime light at the moment, it’s the rapid spread of swine flu. It is predicted that by September, the illness will be keeping one in eight workers at home instead of at work. So, how can you prepare your business should the worst happen and swine flu find its way into your business? What Are The Symptoms? The problem with swine flu is that it is [+]Unemployment Records Broken
ONS statistics show another increase in unemployment levels by 281,000, to 2.38million in the three months to May. This is an increase of 7.6%, the highest for over 10years. Unemployment benefit claimants rose by nearly 24,000 in June, reaching 1.56million. This, overall, is still less that was predicted by analysts. Particularly hit are young people, due to companies cut back on intake in order to reduce costs. Unemployment in the under24s is at a 16year high of [+]Beating Workplace Stress
Work Place Stress Becoming A Real Problem? In a recession as deep as the one we are in now, so it is only natural that many of your employees may be feeling a little stressed. Group Aviva Risk Management says that in the UK, employees lost 13.5 million working days in 2007-8 due to depression, anxiety and work-related stress. Knowing this, it makes sense to try and avoid workplace stress, but what can you do to make sure [+]Interns – To Take On Or Not To Take On?
Cheap Problem Solvers? The current hot topic on the business agenda is interns – to take them on or not to? Two years ago if you asked most businesses what their biggest constant challenge was, most would have said something along the lines of ‘hiring good people’. But these days, unsurprisingly, it seems that cash flow is top of the agenda of worries. However, having good, efficient staff is the best way to maintain a decent [+]More From Choose a category
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