Culture and change
Ready to raise the bar on HR?
Growing a business without HR expertise is challenging at best, and a constant uphill struggle at worst. If you’ve ever had to tackle a people issue on your own, you’ll know just how stressful it can be. Between trying to manage your legal obligations, and meeting your operational requirements, firefighting can become part of your everyday routine if you’re not careful.
The last few months have shown us, how valuable it can be to have your HR Expert on speed dial. There is…
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Culture and change
What needs to be on your People Agenda for 2021?
HR’s role in Managing the Long-Term Impact of the Pandemic and Remote Working
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed our way of working. But how will the big shift we are seeing within our clients to remote working, impact how we work in the future, and what role does HR have in managing the long-term impact on businesses?
Remote Working
Covid-19 forced many companies to switch to remote working literally overnight. Although some companies and employees alike have relished in their new working from home arrangements, to be successful in the…
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30th November 2020
Culture and change
To party or not to party – that is the question!
The Christmas period is a challenging time for many business owners, and this year will be no exception. Normally, Christmas is a time when customers or prospective customers are in the Christmas spirit and often have a little extra cash that they’re willing to spend, so it will be interesting to see how many of us business owners approach Christmas, with many suffering losses to revenue they won’t be able to fully recover and therefore tightening our belts cost wise.
With everything that’s going on, you might not have even…
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26th October 2020
Culture and change
Why don’t your employees trust you?
Trust is a funny old issue. It’s hard to describe, and it’s arguably not very measurable. Those who are skeptical of the HR profession might say that it’s exactly the type of thing that we’re known for dealing with – in other words, all fluff and no substance!
Jokes aside though, if there’s a lack of trust between management and employees, and employee and HR, you’re going to run into serious problems. Issues like low productivity, high turnover of staff, and a bad reputation as an employer. All of a…
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5th October 2020
Culture and change
Coronavirus Update
Thank you once again to Beverley Sunderland from Crossland Solicitors on Milton Park, South Oxfordshire for keeping us fully informed and briefed on all the latest legal changes so promptly!
The Job Support Scheme announced on the 28th September
Running for six months from 1st November until 30 April 2021, employees who are working at least a third of their normal working hours due to such a decrease in demand will be paid for the hours worked by their employer, but for the hours not worked, the employer and the…
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5th October 2020
Culture and change
5 Tips for Creating a Happy & Healthy Workforce during a Pandemic
As an employer, you have a responsibility to ensure that your staff are healthy, happy, and productive. That’s an even taller order during these uncertain times that we are living and working in at the moment! However, there are many business benefits to making sure you continue to adopt this approach – it’s a moral obligation too. The forward thinking companies that can cement best practices into their everyday new way of working will undoubtedly reap the benefits.
Need a little further incentive? Focusing on health and wellbeing could lead…
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5th October 2020
Employment law
Do you need HR Oxygen?
Growing a business without HR expertise is challenging at best, and a constant uphill struggle at worst. If you’ve ever had to tackle a people issue on your own, you’ll know just how stressful it can be. Between trying to manage your legal obligations, and meeting your operational requirements, firefighting can become part of your everyday routine if you’re not careful.
The last few months have shown us, how valuable it can be to have your HR Expert on speed dial. There is always the option to call upon HR…
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29th September 2020
Culture and change
The positive impact volunteering or charity events will have on your team
If I told you that approximately 70% of FTSE 100 companies have a volunteering programme, would you be surprised? I know I was!
So, there must be a compelling reason why our biggest and most successful corporates do this. After all, they have budgets and performance targets like the rest of us. How do they justify this ‘charitable’ financial commitment to their returns-hungry shareholders? Because they know that engaged employees make happier and more productive employees, that’s why! Making sure you have highly engaged employees at the moment, is absolutely…
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22nd August 2020
Culture and change
Managing Survivor Syndrome in your business
What is survivor syndrome?
We’ve all felt the impact of redundancies in one form or another over our careers, but what has been happening during the recent Coronavirus outbreak, is going to leave the people who may remain in your business in a difficult situation.
When a company decides it needs to cut costs, redundancies will often be top of the list of considerations. In our experience, its often not the fact that you are making the redundancies that’s the problem – your employees are pretty clued up and will…
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22nd August 2020
Culture and change
Thrive with Meraki HR
At Meraki HR, we have always been here to help and support clients with their immediate people problems. Being able to deal with these issues quickly and with the minimum of fuss and impact to your business, allowing you to get on with what you do best – running your business! However, most of our work with clients has been around helping them create great places to work; where their people are happy, motivated, engaged and highly productive.
We appreciate that there are a lot of immediate issues and problems…
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29th June 2020