Flexible Working
Breast Cancer Awareness in the Workplace
In 2020 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer and there were 685,000 deaths resulting from breast cancer. 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. October is breast cancer awareness month. It’s an opportune time to honour the...
Supporting Dads in the Workplace
There’s no question that parents in general are overwhelmed with the balance of work and their responsibilities at home. Most companies have at least an awareness of the plight of working mothers and some kind of maternity leave policy. Paternity leave is a different...
Policies and Procedures: Can’t Have a Happy Workplace Without Them
The existence of policies and procedures in the workplace is a given. But these “rules” are more than a formality. They create the boundaries that allow workers to feel safe and clear about their roles. Policies and procedures relating to internal policies, leave...
How You Should Respond to Quiet Quitting
Depending on whom you ask, quiet quitting is either positive or something to be feared. From the perspective of a business leader, it may at first appear to be a threat to retention rates. It may even appear that people simply don’t want to work anymore. But let’s...
Staying Connected as a Hybrid Employee
There’s nothing like a year away from the workplace to put things into perspective. The pandemic gave us all pause to reflect on our lives, our goals and our priorities. We reviewed how work fits into those areas. It also opened our eyes to the possibilities of remote...
How Managers Keep the Hybrid Workplace a Connected Workplace
The emergence of the hybrid workforce has taken a toll on people at the management level. One survey showed that managers feel stuck between leadership and employees. 54% of managers surveyed claim they felt leadership was out of touch with employees. Managers have...
How to Support New Parents in the Workplace
Whether out of a desire to retain employees or concern for the welfare of your employees, there’s a lot that companies can do to support new parents. Giving birth, or partnering with someone who has, not only takes a physical and mental toll. It’s also expensive,...
Supporting Women In The Workplace
March is Women’s History Month. We are taking this time to recognise the powerful women who have contributed to our world. Let us also appreciate how far the UAE has come in terms of gender equality in the workplace. The pandemic certainly moved gender equality...
Resilience – The Key to Your Organisational Success
Hopefully by now, most company leaders have come to realise “normal” for the workplace will continue to be a relative term for some time. So how do you create stability in the workplace when the environment is continually shifting? The key is resilience. Resilience is...
How to Go Home From Work When You Work From Home
According to a seven-year study, the inability to switch out of work mode and into personal mode was in the top ten list of most stressful factors people were bad at handling. And that was before the pandemic. One might expect the rise of remote work to reduce the...
How Technology Can Make or Break Your Hybrid Workforce
Technology is what makes hybrid work possible. However, many employees are struggling to keep up with changes in technology. The reason for this might not be as simple as you think. The pandemic sent everyone into a mad scramble to cobble together the working pieces...
Sleep on Your Own Time
If you work in a company right now, chances are you’re a part of the cult of sleep deprivation. There’s something honourable about sacrificing your sleep to chase down your goals. You look at someone with bloodshot eyes on their fifth cup of coffee before 10 am and...