Sign up here Few underestimate the impact that Covid-19 has on the way that we work, and in the last 12 months we have all had to adapt to working from home. We’ve moved irreversibly past the Monday to Friday, 9-5 office routine that so many of us were tethered to. We can now see […]
Future of the Workplace: The Data Driven Workplace
As we move into 2021 and look ahead to try and predict what the next trends will be within workplace strategy and what the future of the workplace will be, particularly in light of the Covid19 pandemic, it seems clear that technology has a huge role to play. However, underlying any advances – technological or […]
Health and Wellbeing: FREE Downloadable Calendar for 2021
Kicking off the new year with another national lockdown was the news we all half-expected, but were hoping to avoid. As we come to the end of the first week of lockdown 3.0, we thought we’d set our sights on the year ahead, and how we can make 2021 a great year for health and […]
Working from Home – Social Isolation and Lockdown
Since the Government’s announcement of a second lockdown, an array of different reactions from the public were unveiled. The rising number of new Covid-19 cases exacerbated feelings of uncertainty – particularly about when things will finally revert back to some level of normality. One thing is for certain though: even with lockdown finishing and the […]
Filing and Storage Audits: A Hidden Opportunity
We have long maintained that the idea of a paperless office is a myth. Whilst technological advances may have helped us to communicate in a different way, and without needing to be face to face, we still invariably reach for pen and paper to take notes or print off documents to make them easier to […]
Working from Home continued in Lockdown2.0
When we first posted our advice on working from home at the end of March, we wanted to take our experiences of helping organisations move to different working styles over a number of years and provide support for those jolted into a new way of working. We recognised that although most of us could be […]
Staff wellbeing: Understanding how your staff feel about working from home
Understanding staff wellbeing and how your staff feel about working from home is critical at this time. Large numbers of the UK workforce remain either furloughed or working from home. With the latest Government messaging reinforcing working from home as a preferred option this new status quo looks set to continue into 2021. Research published […]
Innovation in the Return to Work: Collaboration Zones
Time to Read: 4 minutes The Return to Work (or better the Return to the Office / Workplace as many have been working very effectively from home) is about much more than creating a Covid-secure environment. It’s about ensuring that the office has evolved to provide workers with space that recognises the change in how […]
The Return to Work post Covid-19: If, When and How should I open my office?
Time to Read: 5 minutes The coronavirus pandemic has presented unprecedented and unique challenges to organisations as they struggle to keep services open and to be productive. With no other global pandemics of this scale in the last century, there is no FM or HR playbook or British standard to refer to. It really is […]
Mental health and continuing home working: 5 signs that your employees might be struggling
Previous Next Those of us who can work from home, or are choosing to keep working from home, are facing a specific set of challenges. In the first couple of weeks it was a sudden jolt into a new way of working; but after two months, it’s a very different story. Whether it’s the monotony […]