Company cultures can give a good read on how people are feeling in the business. Do people support each other? Are they feeling burnt out? If your company can’t answer questions like these with confidence, it’s important to make changes to better understand your corporate culture and also how you can lead by example to change it (because no company culture is perfect). So where can companies and managers start?
Read MoreStudies have shown that allowing employees to work from home can increase employee satisfaction and productivity in the long-term, and that an employer’s presence among employees has much less effect on productivity than that of their colleagues. It's clear that it has a lot of benefits. So, how can companies best support their flexible workforce?
Read MoreWith a report last year estimating that robots will take over a third of British jobs by 2030, it might not seem far-fetched that robots could soon be our employees. However, there are still skills and roles that they cannot yet deliver well. AI is far from mastering critical thinking, leadership and listening skills, and it’s vitally important that companies develop and scale soft skills among their employees. Read more to find out how companies can do this.
Read MoreWhen it comes to businesses and the workplace, we usually relate failure to situations like not managing to close a sale, win the business you were pitching, or reach your yearly target. But it is not quite so straightforward.
Read MoreEvery workforce is made up of individuals with different values, and whether they prioritise status, money, mission-driven work or work-life balance depends on so much more than gender. Julie Chakraverty talks about what we can learn from the Google memo story.
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