We’re always hearing about millennials, gender differences, older workers… but what about differences in personality; something that cuts across all of these different groups? How do different personality types feel about agile work, hot desking and open plan? Hotdesking: its something that can be useful for reducing costs, driving engagement and even being a workplace […]
Are You Remotely Happy? 3 ways to engage remote workers in workplace wellbeing initiatives
A happy workplace makes a happy worker. Makes sense doesn’t it? Companies across the nation appear to believe so, as evidenced by the creation of new roles like ‘Chief Happiness Officers’ within corporations. This is just one way that we’re starting to see growing commitment to employee wellbeing. But with the rise of remote working (and with […]
All Present – but Correct? A new White Paper on Presenteeism
Companies sink or swim based on their leaders, and good leadership in a company can be felt throughout the entire organisation. With the cost of losing an employee often being in excess of the annual salary of that worker, losing employees is a cost that organisations can scarcely afford. In contrast to this, the result of a good […]
A 4-Day Working Week? – A new White Paper
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay titled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In this work, Keynes forecasted that in one hundred years hence, we would be working a 15-hour week. Yet today, nearly a century on, we revel in material opulence unimagined by the likes of Keynes, but we still persist with work […]
Standing Desks – A new White Paper
Standing desks are in. Once the province of Scandinavian design magazines, the stand-up desk is extending to the world of corporate drones over here in the rest of Europe. And, as it appears, for good reason — there’s an increasing array of medical evidence that hours of uninterrupted sitting can be surprisingly bad for your health. […]
Avoiding the Desk Sentence – the dangers of Sedentary Behaviour
Colin Stuart, Managing Director of workplace consultancy, Baker Stuart, examines the dangers of long-term sedentary behaviour, explaining how changes to the workspace and company culture are vital in getting staff active. Usually when we hear shocking news, its best to be seated – but for the following you may wish to stand. In recent years, […]
The Sedentary Epidemic: Don’t force people to stand up to work
Following a recent publication by The British Journal of Sports Medicine* of ‘The Sedentary Office’, an Expert Statement commissioned by Active Working CIC with Public Health England, the press in the UK published a number of articles about the ‘sedentary epidemic’ including these in the Guardian, Telegraph, Express and Daily Mail. The Guardian also published […]
Change in the Workplace –what motivates people at work?
“For the vast majority of organisations their human capital is their most valuable and important asset… the workplace needs to be seen as an investment to unlock the value of this human capital.” Colin Stuart, Value Rhetoric and Cost Reality, 2012 Work places have evolved throughout history, but not always to the benefit of worker […]
