Employee Engagement

MPs push for four-day working week council

A group of Labour MPs are calling for the UK government to include a four-day working week as part of the Employment Rights Bill. An amendment to the Bill has been put forward by Peter Dowd, Labour MP for Bootle, to...

UK’s first medical trial of four-day work week finds significant...

Thrive, a fast-growth all-in-one learning technology company, released findings from the UK’s first medical trial of the four-day work week in partnership with the University of Sussex, revealing significant i...

The cost of small business owners ‘doing it all’

New research from Xero, a global small business platform, has found leaders of the UK’s smallest businesses (one to nine employees) and sole traders spend less than half (46%) of the working week on their core jobs. These b...

Nearly one in four UK SMEs identify remote working as a key cybersecurity...

A new study by Markel Direct, a specialist insurer of small businesses, has revealed that nearly one in four SMEs are concerned about how they secure remote working environments for employees working away from the...

Data reveals remote workers have highest productivity and best work/life ...

A new report from employment tech unicorn, Employment Hero, The State of Wellbeing at Work, reveals that fully remote workers are happier and more productive than those who work full time in the office or hybrid. Over...

What does the future of remote work look like?

Boots, Barclays and Deutsche Bank are just some of the companies that have announced back to office mandates for UK staff in 2024. If big-name employers are abandoning homeworking in favour of in-person interaction,...

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