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Health and Wellbeing: FREE Downloadable Calendar for 2021

January 11, 2021 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

Health and Wellbeing Calendar 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 […]

Filed Under: Covid-19, Wellbeing, Wellness Tagged With: coronavirus, covid19, emotional health, employee wellbeing, employee wellness, health and wellbeing, mental health, Morale, wellbeing, wellbeing programme, wellness, workplace wellbeing, workplace wellness

Staff wellbeing: Understanding how your staff feel about working from home

October 8, 2020 by Toby Godman Leave a Comment

Staff wellbeing

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Change Management, Covid-19, Return to Work, Wellbeing, Wellness Tagged With: change, coronavirus, covid19, employee wellbeing, return to work, staff satisfaction survey, staff survey, staff wellbeing, workplace wellbeing, workplace wellness

Returning to the Office? 5 signs that your employees might be struggling with their mental health

May 21, 2020 by Katy Lawn 1 Comment

Previous Next The Government’s latest advice on Covid-Secure workplaces covers everything from PPE to cleaning procedures and staggering shifts. And yet, there is no mention at all of any mental health considerations in the guidance.  With research indicating that there are high levels of anxiety about returning to the office at the moment, what is it that you need to look out for as you start […]

Filed Under: Change Management, Evolution of the Workplace, Wellbeing, Wellness, Workplace Analysis Tagged With: emotional wellbeing, employee engagement, management, management styles, mental health, mental wellbeing, PeopleLOOK, wellbeing, wellness, workplace wellbeing

When we design workplaces as lifestyle packages… who are they for?

March 10, 2020 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

This think piece considers the implications of offering workplaces as total lifestyle solutions. When we design these spaces, who are they actually for? Do we need to consider diversity and inclusion? How does this impact corporate culture and work life balance? And… are we working to live, or living to work?    Conversations about work-life balance are […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Evolution of the Workplace, Wellbeing, Wellness, Workplace Analysis, Workplace Design Tagged With: Agile Working, lifestyle, office design, wellbeing, work life balance, workplace perks, workplace wellbeing

Hot desking as an introvert: Designing workplaces for different personality types

July 30, 2019 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Evolution of the Workplace, Wellbeing, Workplace Analysis, Workplace Design Tagged With: Activity based working, agile workplace, Change in the Workplace, communication, extrovert, Flexible working, Hotbox, introvert, Morale, personality types, Productivity, wellbeing, Workplace design, workplace wellbeing

5 Reasons why we need to be able to complain about our workplaces

June 12, 2019 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

Presented by Hotbox, Baker Stuart and Forster Inc. at Clerkenwell Design Week 2019.   In support of Hotbox’s new Hub launch at Clerkenwell Design Week, Hotbox, Baker Stuart and Forster Inc. decided to put together a wellbeing event which was a little out of the ordinary. We decided to ask people to complain about their workplace. Over three days, we set up the Workplace Complaints […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: communication, emotions, management, Productivity, wellbeing, wellness, workplace wellbeing

Freedom of Movement and the Importance of Individuality

April 9, 2019 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

by Jamie Rothwell, MD at Hotbox Storage  No, we’re not talking about Brexit. We’re talking about collaborative and open plan workspaces that encourage you to move around the workspace and work where and when you like. We are all familiar with these workspaces today. They are great at encouraging innovation, attracting talent and are just fun […]

Filed Under: Agile Working, Evolution of the Workplace, Workplace Analysis, Workplace Design Tagged With: agile, agile workplace, agileworking, Flexible working, office, open plan, workplace wellbeing

New research suggests that the confidence gap between men and women is a myth

September 27, 2018 by Katy Lawn Leave a Comment

Baker Stuart’s Insight: New research shows that although high-performing men and women rated themselves as equally confident in the workplace, their reasons for gaining influence in the company showed a sharp gender disparity. Although men were more likely to get ahead based on people perceiving them as self-confident, the research shows that this was not the case […]

Filed Under: Evolution of the Workplace, What we're reading, Workplace Analysis Tagged With: confidence, diversity, gender, inclusive workplaces, inclusivity, workplace wellbeing

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