Being happy at work is often easier said than done for most. However, you may well be surprised as to what aspects of work genuinely increase the happiness of those in the workplace.

Getting employees back to work after a long-term absence can be difficult. Recent evidence also suggests that there are various other influences which discourage employees from returning to work once they have left their job, particularly in the case of American men.

Consider this scenario: a company of 1000 employees with 8% absence level (equal to 18 days per employee per year). With little data to base management decisions on and no line management ownership, the absence problem was not being addressed. In some areas, the management teams routinely over-staffed in order to make up for the […]

Did you know that about 200 years ago, around the time of the industrial revolution, employers started seeing a trend of mass absenteeism, which affects us to this day?

Asking for advice is more contentious than might at first seem. There are generally, to draw a very rough divide, two types of people: those who like to work through problems on their own and those whose threshold to seek advice from others is lower. The skill to ask for advice in a work environment […]

Cloud services are “quicker, cheaper and more competitive”, according to Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, with some tech companies estimating that they can be 25% to 60% cheaper than traditional long-term IT contracts.

This morning’s news announced that tech start-up Just Eat achieved 58% rise in revenues in the last 6 months.

A phased return to work is a plan laid out for individual staff members who are returning to work after a period of long term absence (over 20 days or 4 calendar weeks).

Staying in regular contact with absentees can be tricky at best of times but it’s risky to overlook long term absence.

The return to work interview has been proven to be the single most effective tool for managing short-term absence.