Time and attendance systems that provide accurate insights and analytics into the employees’ attendance patterns can help improve overall productivity for UK firms, which are currently losing 27.5 days of productive work per employee each year, because of poor health, according to a recent research report. The paper from Britain’s Healthiest Workplace (BHW) also suggests […]
The number of advertised vacancies has risen by 17.7% in May, suggesting that business confidence is strong across the nation, recent data from online jobs portal CV-Library has been able to reveal. The data, which analysed the number of jobs in the UK’s key cities in May 2017, compared with April 2017, found that Brighton […]
Besides enabling employers to check whether workers arrive and leave on time, managing payroll or annual leave, workforce management systems can be also used for improving the staff’s wellbeing. Workplace wellbeing support is worse in the public sector than in the private sector, according to research from mental health charity Mind, who surveyed 12,000 employees […]
The uptake of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) is still modest among UK employees, a recent research study by Milners Solicitors has been able to suggest. The research found that out of more than 56,000 people employed by some of the UK’s biggest private and public sector organisations, just 54 of them had taken up the […]
The UK jobs market has experienced its steepest drop in candidate availability for 16 months, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s latest Report on Jobs. The recruitment industry body found that the availability of both permanent and temporary candidates declined at sharper rates in April, the steepest deterioration in availability since the start of […]
The number of employees who usually work from home has increased by 7.7% (152,000) last year, a new analysis report published by the TUC to mark National Work From Home Day has revealed. More than 1.6 million employees (1 in 16) worked from home in 2016, with the number of women working from home going […]
As a higher level of inflation hits the UK economy, the effects are trickling down into the labour market and taking their toll on wage growth. UK salaries have struggled to match up to their September 2014 high of £34,695. March 2017’s figures are down 3.8% annually to currently reside at £32,525. Despite the strain […]
The unemployment rate was 4.7% in the 3 months to February 2017, down from 5.1% a year earlier; it has not been lower since June to August 1975, recent data released by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) has been able to suggest. The number of vacancies increased by 2.1% between the last quarter of […]
Personnel management software can become a very useful tool in managing absences, especially when faced with an increase in the number of people calling in sick. Recent research has seen a marked difference in the number of people calling in sick in the last week of March compared to previous week, the main causes being […]
While the majority of UK employers have a rather positive outlook on their future, employees tend to view the future in a more negative light, data from the Hays UK Salary & Recruiting Trends 2017 guide has found. The research suggest that almost half (45%) of people participating in the study said they doubt they […]