With GP practices and pharmacies, like many other businesses, still under pressure from the knock-on effect of Covid-19, absence management technology can be an essential tool to help employers get on top of sick leave, reduce the cost of absences, and manage staff shortages.
Outsourcing HR can feel like a gamble. In trusting a third party with your employees wellbeing, motivation so much more, alongside your company processes, you might feel somewhat apprehensive.
With much of the UK’s workforce working from home over the past 18 months, it has been absolutely key for businesses make sure that productivity isn’t impacted.
Countrywide, measures are being taken to make places in all areas of life COVID-secure, and office spaces are no exception. The Coronavirus has caused millions of people to become acutely aware of the surroundings they work in.
Nearly three quarters of UK employees currently working from home say they would feel more comfortable returning to the workplace if colleagues had been vaccinated against Covid-19, a recent study by recruitment company, Randstad has found.
A study of employee behaviours, conducted during the pandemic, has illustrated a worrying trend, which could negatively impact staff’s mental health.