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Why Breathing Classes Might Be The Best Employee Benefit Yet

Breathing is something we as humans take for granted - something we do without ever thinking about it. However, learning to breathe consciously is...

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6 Ways Employee Benefits Impact Your Bottom Line

Many companies, particularly SMEs, don’t see the need to bother with beyond the usual medical,...

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Employee Engagement: Why You Need a Mix of Introverts & Extroverts

Research shows that a diverse workforce increases employee engagement through innovation and productivity, and enhances creativity, and is...

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7 Reasons Every Business Needs Employee Benefits in a Post-Covid World

In the days before the pandemic turned our world upside down, most companies had a basic understanding of employee benefits and generally took...

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What the Olympic Games can Teach Leaders About Reward and Recognition

The Olympic Games have always been synonymous with guts and glory, pushing to the limit and achieving at all costs. However, in the wake of the...

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The #WorkLifeShow: Setting Workplace Non-Negotiables For Mental Health

In our recent interview for The #WorkLifeShow, Kathryn Wilson spoke to mental health expert Lisa Jones, who offered us some insights into mental...

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Workplace Webinars: Preventing Employee Burnout in a Covid World

Employee wellbeing, mental health and burnout are important topics at the moment, with so many people working from home and the boundaries between...

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Why Employers Need to Retain Their Staff Members Now, More Than Ever!

The world is normalising and companies are finding their feet once again, after a fairly static year. It’s time for companies to relaunch and...

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Mumpreneurs: How to Balance Business, Childcare & Employee Wellbeing

Being both an entrepreneur and a stay-at-home mum requires a great deal of time and energy. Even so, it is possible to run a successful business...

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5 Ways SaaS Platforms are Revolutionising HR and Employee Benefits

It is predicted that by 2025, 75 percent of the workforce will be made up of millennials - a generation that has grown up with ever changing...

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Why Service Companies Need Employee Benefits More Than Other Sectors

The service sector is one of the largest sectors in the UK, and as such, it is integral that service companies should be the first to offer...

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The 10 Best Employee Wellbeing Tools, Gadgets for Work-from-Home Staff

During the last year with the unexpected pandemic, many companies were forced to make adjustments for their employees. Moving to a work-from-home...

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Bill & Melinda Gates: Benefits of a Growth Mindset in the Workplace

The recent headlines about Bill and Melinda Gates filing for divorce have sent shockwaves through the philanthropic world. They announced their...

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How Large Companies can Mobilise Employees to use Their Benefit Scheme

All large sized companies will have a range of employee benefits on offer, from the usual dental, medical and paid leave, to more unique benefits...

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Employee Benefits for Small Businesses & Why You Need Them

Many owners of small businesses might be thinking that offering employee benefits is too expensive and not necessary. However while not having...

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Paid Leave After Miscarriage: A Workplace Wellbeing Issue

Losing a baby is a deeply personal experience that affects everyone differently and time is needed to process your emotions. When you feel...

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Why You Should Provide WFH Phone & Accessory Employee Benefits

In today’s current climate with many people working from home, it is integral that your employees are equipped with the correct tools necessary to...

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6 Trendy Employee Benefits from Online Jewellery Companies

Hands up who doesn’t love a little bling? Being in a pandemic doesn’t mean you can’t show off a little ice with our fantastic employee benefits...

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Workplace Webinars: Building a Business Vision that People Engage With

Every startup has a business plan - a formal document that contains the goals of the business and the plans to achieve them. But in order to make...

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Got a Shopify Store? You Need These Employee Benefits for Your Team!

Selling online can become an expensive exercise, with money being channeled into hosting, designing and developing, leaving limited finances for...

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4 Essential Employee Benefits for Any Online Clothing Business

Statistics show that around one-fifth of sales in the UK retail industry is done online, and in 2020 alone more than half of the UK’s population...

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5 Employee Benefits you Need for Your eCommerce Business

1995 was the year that saw the launch of an online bookstore out of the garage of a former wall street hedge fund exec - a small eCommerce...

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Harry and Meghan's Interview: Why Should Employers Take Note?

It has attracted over 17.1 million viewers worldwide, everyone has seen it, everyone is talking about it, you guessed it, Oprah’s interview with...

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The Good News: UK Employment Prospects Potentially on the Rise

According to a recent report by the BBC, more than half of employees in the UK plan on hiring staff in the next three months.

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6 Things to Look for in an Employee Benefits Provider

Nowadays job seekers are not simply looking for a decent paycheque. They are looking for a company that caters to all their needs, providing...

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10 of the Best Employee Benefits to Welcome Spring

Spring is in the air! It’s time to wipe away those winter blues and step out into the sunshine. And what better way than by treating yourselves to...

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Are you Adding a Book Club to Your Employee Benefits in 2021?

Reading is something we do for relaxation, motivation and education, and with World Book Day coming up on the 1st of March, now is the perfect...

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Employee Engagement: Ensure Inclusivity in a Diverse Environment

A diverse workplace is key to your bottom line. Research shows that a diverse workforce increases innovation and productivity, and enhances...

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6 Ways to Spoil Your Valentine with your Employee Discount Programme

February is the month of love, and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. We all need something positive to celebrate! To spoil that special...

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5 Tools Every Startup Needs to Build a Company Culture

Company culture can be defined as your company’s unique set of shared goals, attitudes and practices. It is integral for any company to work on...

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Employee Wellbeing: Why Sleep Might be the Answer to Your Success

Waking up refreshed can make a huge difference to your day and the wellbeing of your employees. Feeling engaged at work involves many factors, but...

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Employee Benefits: 7 Trends Can we Expect in 2021

During current times, when many people are working remotely and may be experiencing different stressors as well as the added burden of...

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Workplace Webinars: Resilience and Coping with Change

We recently hosted a webinar on workplace resilience and coping with change, particularly in these challenging times.

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Employee Engagement: 5 Tips on How to Give Feedback Remotely

Wondering why some of your employees are suddenly not as engaged as they used to be? The way that your managers provide feedback could be a...

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10 Employee Benefits to Kickstart the New Year

2020 was a year to be remembered - a year when we laughed, we cried, we supported, and we soldiered on. Many of our employees have had to commit...

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5 of the Best Freemiums to Engage Your Employees

Employee engagement doesn’t always require a load of business capital to be effective. In times like these where many businesses are struggling to...

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Employee Wellbeing: Be Your Best Boss & Beat Burnout while you WFH

Working from home, while convenient and cost-efficient, has its drawbacks. Having no physical distinction between home and office makes it hard to...

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8 Tips to Care for the Wellbeing of Your Remote Employees

This year a ripple of changes has impacted all of our home and work lives. Arecentsurvey by the Office for National Statistics revealed the...

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Why UX Matters When it Comes to Attracting the Best Job Candidates

User Experience has fast become an important aspect of business, yet most people consider it as relating to the end-user, being their experiences,...

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Employee Engagement: Why You Should be Investing in People Analytics

People analytics - the new buzzword phrase on the HR block - is a relatively new concept, yet many companies don’t understand what it is or how to...

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Why Providing Unhealthy Office Snacks is Killing Employee Productivity

We spend on average 8 hours a day at work, so it is inevitable that we will have at least one meal during the course of a work day, and it is...

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Staff Treats Launch Chrome Extension Revolutionising Employee Benefits

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new extension for Chrome, enabling us to better serve our customers and revolutionise the features of...

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Employee Wellbeing: Why Everybody Needs Digital Mental Health Training

A digital mental health training strategy is integral to your employee wellbeing, as shown by research conducted by Business in the Community,...

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Workplace Webinars: Why You Need Gamification to Engage Employees

Have you run out of ideas on how to engage your remote employees during the UK’s 2nd lockdown? Motivation and productivity levels among your team...

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Reward & Recognition: 8 Ideas for a Company Year End in Corona Times

With the end of the year approaching and another lockdown in place, we're sure team morale could do with a pick-me-up. 2020 has been quite a year,...

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Employee Benefits Your Startup Needs to Have

When starting a business and building a team, it can be a difficult balance of keeping costs low and ensuring you have happy employees. People are...

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Is There Really a Place for Gamification in the HR Toolkit?

In recent years, the concept of gamification has rapidly grown in popularity. To grasp a better understanding of the art of gamification at work...

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Explore Local UK Travel Destinations With Your Employee Benefits

For many people, 2020 has been the year when we have had to make many changes. We have had to learn to go out less, shop online, work from home...

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How Employee Experience Impacts Customer Experience

If anyone asks what drives a business, the first thing that will come to mind is the customer - because without customers, there would be no...

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Workplace Webinars: Employee Engagement in the Post-Covid World

We recently hosted our first webinar featuring leading people experts to discuss employee wellbeing in the post-covid world.

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3 of The Best Ways to Measure Employee Happiness & Satisfaction

If you want to focus on employee satisfaction, you may be surprised how identifying three underappreciated key factors can yield impressive...

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Why Employees Leave Due to Outdated Technology & Company Culture

Global FinTech recruiter Storm2 recently put together a compelling presentation on employee retention in the FinTech field. An emphasis is placed...

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3 Employee Recognition Strategies to Retain Construction Professionals

Many construction companies have a hard time retaining their trained workers and don’t seem to know the reason behind this. However, one thing...

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Retention: How You Should React When Your Best Employee Resigns

No matter the size of your business or your team, we’re sure you have that one employee that is the glue that holds everything together. It’s team...

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HR Trends: Why Should You Use Automated Skill Assessment Tools in 2020

The Human Resource department is one of the most proactive elements of a business organisation because it is directly related to your employees,...

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How To Boost Employee Wellbeing Whilst Working From Home

Working from home has led to huge adjustments for most people. Depending on individual circumstances, it hasn’t always been beneficial for...

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Startups: 4 Ways To Hire And Retain Top Tech Talent

It seems every week there are new companies entering the tech space. We hear of software engineers with a new idea for an app leaving their...

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How Airbnb is Changing the Face of Employee Engagement

Team building. Two words that are prone to send many employees running for the hills arguing that they have more important things to do with their...

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‘No Rules Rules’: A Look into Netflix's Company Culture

Imagine working for a company that not only has an entire website dedicated to job opportunities, but an entire page dedicated to their company...

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5 Ways to Minimise Workplace Negativity for Better Staff Wellbeing

Workplace negativity can threaten the success of a business. Negativity affects morale, it eats up time which could be spent being productive and...

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Employee Retention: Why Millennials Will Leave & Other Truths

You’ve hired a golden employee, they’re productive, everyone on the team loves them and you can see loads of potential for your new candidate to...

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Employee Engagement: 10 of the Best Apps to Engage with your Employees

Looking for new ways to engage with your employees? Why not go mobile-first! There are a host of apps available on the App Store and Google Play...

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6 Ways to Nurture Your Virtual Company Culture During The Pandemic

Company culture shouldn’t be abandoned during the current pandemic. Placing more weight on your culture could keep your business and your...

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Employee Wellbeing: The Effects of Covid-19 on Work-Life Boundaries

Work plays a significant role in our lives, and as technology is being used more frequently it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate work...

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4 Remote Work & WFH Strategies for Better Employee Retention

For many businesses that weren’t quite set up to comfortably work from home, the pandemic propelled them into a whole new world that they weren’t...

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Everything You Need to Know About an Employee Salary Sacrifice Scheme

What is an Employee Salary Sacrifice Scheme? Salary sacrifice, sometimes referred to as salary exchange, is an arrangement that employers may make...

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How to Look After the Financial Wellbeing of Employees

The word 'uncertainty’ is one we’ve all been hearing and using a lot more in recent months. In the past 100 days society has faced challenges -...

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How to Know if a Candidate is a Good Culture Fit?

During the hiring process, it’s tempting for any decision maker to focus on the candidate with the most impressive CV, rather than put any...

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6 Ways to Retain and Reward Your Best Working Parents

Being a parent is a full time job on its own. No working parent wants to be stuck with a boss who undervalues their contribution to the company....

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Employee Culture: The Importance of Being Authentic

It’s important to be strategic and proactive when it comes to the creation of your employee culture. As with your organisation’s overarching...

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Should Company Culture Come From 'Top-Down' or 'Bottom-Up'?

Company culture is effectively an organisation’s personality and in many ways it can be as unique and complex as any individual. Just as our own...

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Why Employees Need Good Leadership More Than Ever

With the spread of Covid-19 at such a speedy and terrifying pace, there is naturally a tremendous amount of uncertainty and fear in the air. Now...

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Marketing Collaboration Tools our Team Can’t Live Without While we WFH

At Staff Treats we were lucky to already have some remote working strategies in place before the Corona Crisis spread across the world. With...

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5 Employee Engagement Challenges Keeping HR Directors up at Night

The role of HR within organisations has evolved and expanded over the last two decades. Employee engagement is now seen as a critical part of...

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4 Ways To Promote A Culture Of Friendliness Within The Workplace

Workplace culture can be one of the most important factors in determining a company’s success, and yet it’s something we don’t talk about enough....

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5 Must-Have’s for a Successful Employee Reward & Recognition Programme

An effective reward and recognition programme can increase productivity and job satisfaction, enhance teamwork and increase retention of top...

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4 Ingredients that Create Employee Happiness

Happy employees are crucial to any business. A happy employee will not only feel valued and enjoy the part they play within the team but also...

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5 Things SaaS Businesses Should Be Doing in Response to COVID-19

In the past few weeks, any and all conversation has been taken over by the Coronavirus crisis, which has quickly become just about everyone’s...

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Why Your Team Will Benefit From More Sleep & Flexible Work Hours

In this post, we take a look at how implementing flexible work hours and allowing more time for sleep, will benefit your team. As well as how the...

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Why Women in Leadership Benefit Your Company

Traditionally the corporate world has been dominated by men in leadership positions, but over the past few decades there has been a shift towards...

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Show Your Team Some Love This Employee Appreciation Day

Every year, the world celebrates Employee Appreciation Day on the first Friday of March. The day, which this year falls on 6th March, provides...

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5 Employee Perks Which Support Learning and Personal Growth

Learning new things gives us a sense of accomplishment, it gives us a confidence boost and concretes our own abilities firmly in our mind.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Let Your Employees Work From Home

Working from home has significant benefits for both employees and their companies; however, many companies have been slow to take up the remote...

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5 Ways to Treat Your Staff With Love This Valentines Day

Roses are red, violets are blue… and Valentine's Day is a great time to treat your staff with an appreciation for the great job they do. That’s...

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Get Your Business Brexit-Ready: Part 2

As Brexit has now happened, I'm sure you are concerned about the UK’s future terms of trade with the rest of the world.

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4 Reasons Why You Might Be Losing Your Top Employees

Research has shown that happiness is the top factor motivating employees’ decisions – and is ultimately the deciding factor as to whether they...

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Top 5 Adventure Destinations for 2020: Use Your Travel Perks Now!

Are the winter blues getting you down and you feel like the holidays are so far past that it’s time for a new adventure? While you are dreaming,...

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8 Steps to Be an Effective Leader in the Workplace

Leadership is learned behaviour that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. For example, leaders can make several important decisions about...

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Get Your Business Brexit-Ready: Part 1

Brexit For Exporters to the EU I'm sure you are aware by now that a no-deal Brexit will impact your business. We'll all have to get used to new...

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Just Brew It: 5 Reasons Why Quality Coffee is a Must-Have Office Perk

Ask office workers what they look for in an ideal workplace and three items that will be close to the top of the list will be comfort, good...

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5 Tips to Survive Dry January

It’s become somewhat of a global phenomenon, but that doesn’t make ‘Dry January’ any easier. Seen by many as the bleakest month of the year - the...

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Covid Wanderlust? 5 Countries That Should be on Your List to Visit

Choosing a holiday destination is not always easy but taking some time off, away from the workplace, should not bear a second thought. We all...

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Top Tips for Getting Fit in 2020

If your new year's resolution is to shed some pounds, we’re hoping that our top tips for getting fit in 2020 will help you to achieve your goals.

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Top Luxurious Resorts You Do Not Want Your Employees To Miss Out On

Employees all look forward to rewarding themselves with an annual break, with much anticipation. We believe your staff should be able to treat...

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Make New Year's Resolutions for 2020 That You Will Actually Stick to

It’s the same old story every December as one year draws to a close and another is on the horizon. We’re all full of positivity about what we’re...

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How to Deal with Conflicts Between Employees

Do you know what's the most popular online search about workplaces? You've probably guessed it - "how to resolve conflict with a colleague".

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5 Easy Tips to Keep Your Employees Happy

It's the million dollar question: what makes a happy employee? Companies around the world are constantly asking this question and yearning to find...

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Staff Treats Christmas Gift Guide 2019

As Andy Williams sang in the famous song, Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year. But it can also seem like the most stressful,...

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Here's Why the Temperature in the Office is Never Quite Right

Research from the University of Southern California (USC) suggests that women really may prefer Venus over Mars - at least temperature-wise. The ...

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How To Boost Employee Satisfaction With Millennials

There is a lot of buzz around millennials, both good and bad. To some, they’re go-getters and digital masters. To others, they are entitled...

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10 Culture Hacks to Keep Your Best Employees

Enjoyable work, a good team, and flexible working – these are the three things that most engage UK workers. Sounds simple enough, right? Yet many...

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The Best Employee Perks to Prepare for Winter

Winter is a tough time for many. The days are getting shorter, the nights colder and many of us are feeling a bad case of Seasonal Affective...

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Why is the Employee Experience So Important?

What makes your employees happy? What makes them raring to go and excited to come to work? How do you improve productivity and boost morale? The...

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5 Fun Ways to Celebrate Staff Birthdays in the Workplace

Birthdays are those milestones which people either love or loathe... so, if someone in your team's special day falls during the working week, the...

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How to Create a Cool Office Environment

Entering the workplace today is an all but unrecognisable experience compared to 10 years ago. Gone are the days of corner offices, and even...

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Everything Employers Need to Know About Maternity Leave

It’s a situation that every employer have to face at some moment in their company’s life: your employee tells you that they are pregnant, and that...

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The Top 8 Craziest Employee Perks On Offer

When you think of your ideal employee perks, you may think of flexible working hours, working from home or maybe a generous number of vacation...

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How to Increase Workplace Productivity Among Your Employees

Employee and workplace productivity are vital for your organisation to stay alive. But what turns an average employee into a productivity...

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How to Nail Employee Appreciation on a Lean Start-up Budget

There is one single factor that can make or break any start-up. It isn’t a proprietary algorithm, or even an idea. The single factor that makes or...

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The New iPhone 11 - New Treat for Your Staff

It’s that time of year again: another Apple smartphone release is on the horizon, and hordes of tech junkies will soon be camping out to become...

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Why Travel Is A Top Employee Benefit

There is nothing more exciting than planning a holiday or trip away. When you book a getaway, you start counting down the days and planning...

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Employee Benefits: How to Keep Your Employee Happy, For Real

In the last decade of my professional life, working for a number of companies across various industries — from dental nurse recruitment to student...

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4 Essential Employee Benefits a Company Should Offer its Employees

HR professionals are constantly facing the challenge of how to best keep employees happy, motivated and engaged, whilst on the flip side, needing...

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5 Employee Engagement Lessons SMEs Can Learn from Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is often hailed as the Holy Grail of workplaces and is praised for their forward thinking approach to business practice. From...

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5 Ways Employee Recognition and Culture Go Hand-in-hand

Company culture and employee recognition... how are these two broad concepts intertwined and linked? Do they go hand in hand or is one a result of...

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