There's a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up in sick leave data or exit interviews. It's the slow erosion that happens when someone pushes through dozens of small frustrations in a single workday – the system that crashes, the meeting that runs over, the email that lands at 5:47pm with "quick question" in the subject line – without ever properly recovering from any of them.

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Topics: Employee Wellbeing

While you're reading this, one of your employees is probably experiencing their 12th stressful moment of the week. And it's only Tuesday.

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Topics: Employee Wellbeing

Every Monday morning, you can feel it. That collective sigh rippling through your office as people settle into their desks with all the enthusiasm of someone facing a root canal.

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Topics: Employee Wellbeing

If there's one topic that's hotter and more relevant than ever after 2020, it is employee wellbeing and workplace health and wellness. Especially given that many people are now working from home and the boundary between work and non-work is even more blurred than it was before. What should HR Professionals be focusing on to cultivate workplace wellness? We're sponsoring this year's Workplace Wellness Festival because we know it matters, and we're confident that the virtual event covers everything you need to know about orienting the employee experience towards wellness, no matter where they work from. Read on to find out more.

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Topics: Employee Wellbeing, Workplace wellness festival, Workplace health & wellbeing, Wellbeing

Managing a business is challenging. Cost control, Human Resources, Marketing, Risk Management - there are many balls in the air. With so much focus now on cost management, it’s no wonder that there is so much pressure on justification of spend. Whether it be marketing spend or office leasing, smart business people are all looking at ways to maximise value and return-on-investment. The business model is evolving into one that can harness the power of agile services. Whether this be serviced office space or a freelance / contract workforce, management teams are looking for way to reduce fixed costs and two of the largest areas of fixed costs are wages and office space. Both of which are based on employee numbers.

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Topics: Employees, Jobs Board, Employee Wellbeing, e-Recruitment Software, HRIS Software, hr software, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Managers, Business Planning, Human Resources Professionals, API Communication

At first glance, you might not think that how you manage performance, or your performance appraisal process have anything to do with employee wellness. Yet enabling your employees to achieve a reasonable level of work-life balance as well as giving them the skills and tools needed to succeed at work, is an essential ingredient in creating great a workplace culture in which your employees thrive. Often, work-life balance issues have their roots in the level of expectations that management and leadership set for employees, and the subsequent way that employee performance in relation to those expectations is then managed.

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Topics: performance management, Employee Wellbeing, Employee Engagement, Managing performance

In an era of digital overwhelm, overworked employees and disengaged talent looking to abandon ship, the wellbeing of the workforce might just be the metric that turns the ship around. A plethora of scientific research on stress and creativity, along with statistics reflecting the desperation of big business to engage and retain top-tier talent, herald the potential demise of the traditional business model. Let's take a look at the HR metrics for wellbeing, and why you need to consider measuring these HR Metrics in your business.

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Topics: HR Metrics, Employee Wellbeing, The Third Metric

Topics: Employee Wellbeing, e-Recruitment Software, HRIS Software