May 12Can texting parents help improve children’s development?Finding ways to better support children’s development and learning in the early years has been recognised as an important topic for some…Education4 min read
May 12Is employee loneliness the next pandemic to challenge HR?When The Beatles wrote Eleanor Rigby, including the lyrics: “All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people…Mental Health5 min read
Apr 27‘Total reward’: a phrase past its sell-by-date in the post-pandemic economy?With the news from a UCL social survey that more of us are now worried about our finances than about catching Covid, with price inflation…Total Rewards5 min read
Mar 3Today’s 3-year-olds were only babies when the Covid-19 pandemic began, and whilst nurseries have…Given the significance of speech and language skills developed in the early years for long lasting wellbeing and future outcomes (e.g. see…Early Years5 min read
Feb 24Fishing in puddles: recruitment in 2022I’ve spent a lot of this year so far speaking to HR people about recruitment and retention. The pain of the record vacancy numbers and…HR5 min read
Feb 23Overcoming the barriers to living and working with cancerMost of what you will read about cancer today, (World Cancer Day) will naturally be about the search for new and better treatments, the…Cancer5 min read
Feb 23Weight-based stigma and employment — an opportunity to have your voice heardFollow @DrZofia and access our survey here: https://bit.ly/33XrxN5Obesity4 min read
Feb 23What does flexible working look like in frontline roles? The case of constructionThe government is consulting about making flexibility the default with a day-one right to request. Whilst there have been studies outlining…Flexible Work3 min read
Feb 23Way to Work — a first step, but we can and must do betterThey say that the first step in recovery is to admit that you have a problem. So we should at least welcome yesterday’s ‘Way to Work’…Labour Market6 min read
Dec 13, 2021Working from home (again) — five lessons from the last timeSo, the great working from home ‘experiment’ is to continue after yesterday’s announcement that Plan B is to be invoked. The decision has…HR4 min read