The PeopleAlchemist Edit: change & transformation, business & lifestyle experimentation for TheWomanAlchemist - #Unlock #Ignite #Transform - Older workers and their changing needs This month I celebrated yet another birthday (PS: check out my...

The PeopleAlchemist Edit: change & transformation, business & lifestyle experimentation for TheWomanAlchemist - #Unlock #Ignite #Transform - Older workers and their changing needs This month I celebrated yet another birthday (PS: check out my...
THE PEOPLEALCHEMIST EDIT: CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION, BUSINESS & LIFESTYLE EXPERIMENTATION FOR THEWOMANALCHEMIST. What does the future of work look like? Is it back to the office or not? THE OFFICE SET UP The office set-up, as we know, can be...
The People Alchemist Edit: the world of work has changed, and more and more people have career breaks for multiple reasons but do they still hinder opportunities with employers? Mind the Gap Part 2 Career Breaks Can Be For So Many Reasons. How Do You...
The People Alchemist Edit: the world of work has changed and more and more people have career breaks for multiple reasons but do they still hinder opportunities with employers? How Do You Explain The Inevitable Breaks In Your CV? Mind the Gap... There are...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: flexibility is the new work deal commodity Flexible working. What flexible working? In a digital world, flexitime and flexilife are now the new normal. Join the new world. Flexible working legislation was introduced in the UK in 2003....
The PeopleAlchemist Edit: Good Lord: is it finally happening? To IR35 or not IR35, that is the question "The IR35 implementation in the private sector is a matter of when not if". AND " We shall see if the freelancers will continue to grow when tax advantages...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and the gig economy To Gig or not to Gig? What do we mean when talking about the Gig Economy? Consumer demand for innovative and agile services coupled with the desire of many to work on their terms makes flexible business...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and Brexit - how is Brexit going to look now? So how is Brexit going to look now? It has almost been one year since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. The negotiations on the "how" have just begun,...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and SAR - HELP ME, AM I IN TROUBLE? A data Subject Access Request ("SAR") is an Employer / Business Owner's worst nightmare. The time, the effort, what information to share, what not to share and so on. Unfortunately, this...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and WTR On 28 February 2017, the Supreme Court refused leave to appeal in the landmark case of “ Lock v British Gas” bringing the legal case to a close. This long-standing legal proceeding, which included representation at...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and Employment Law Spring does not just bring flowers in bloom and good weather but also a series of legislative changes from large compliance projects for data protection and gender pay gap reporting to costs increases as...
Is it time to ditch the dress code or is it still justifiable? I read a recent article in the CIPD Magazine People Management where the discussion centred around "Is it time to ditch the dress code?" topic. This sounded particularly pertinent to me considering...
Could Brexit lead to a re-calibration of skills in the UK? Brexit: the countdown has begun ... No self-respecting HR-Blog or Business-Blog could ignore what happened yesterday when Theresa May triggered Article 50 with a landmark letter which has now made...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and equal pay The Office for National Statistics (“ONS”) reported on 26 October 2016 that the gender pay gap between men and women (for full-time workers) has fallen from 9.6% in April 2015 to 9.4% in April 2016 which is,...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and redundancies No one wants to make redundancies or be made redundant; from time to time, however, businesses have to re-organise themselves and cut overhead costs. Restructures and redundancies can pave the way for...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and ill health at work ll-health at work can be a sensitive issue, especially when handling long term or repeated absence. Tribunals have sympathy for employees with health issues, even where no disability is involved, and...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and immigration Last July immigration officials arrested dozens of illegal workers at Byron prompting mixed reactions from the national media and the burger chain’s customers. The Home Office carried out raids, with Byron’s...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and workplace illness The Office for National Statistics found that, in 2013, more working days were lost to musculoskeletal problems such as back and neck pain than anything else. Once upon a time, if you suffered from...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and absence Figures from the Office for National Statistics shows that sickness absence caused by stress, anxiety and/or depression has dramatically increased from 11.8 million days in 2010 to 15.2 million days in 2013....
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, business and the law Starbucks has lost a disability discrimination case after it wrongly accused a dyslexic employee of falsifying documents when she had simply misread numbers she was responsible for recording. This case is a...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and employee relations An allegation of misconduct i.e. met with immediate sickness absence, what do you do? Adjust do not delay - it is not true that employees can't be disciplined if they're off sick or don't show. Their...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business, Employment and maternity Many managers don't "get" pregnancy. They are afraid to engage with pregnant employees because they are unsure what "employment law" minefield they are stepping into. Not everything is...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and equal pay An equal pay case involving 400 female employees of supermarket ASDA could bring about several similar claims elsewhere in the private sector. THE CASE The case concerns equal pay claims from...
PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 9, 2022 THE PEOPLEALCHEMIST EDIT: CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION, BUSINESS & LIFESTYLE EXPERIMENTATION FOR THEWOMANALCHEMIST – THE UNSUNG HERO Dealing with people at work can be challenging, especially with the unsung hero type. You...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and discrimination In the case of Thompson v London Central Bus Company Ltd, the question of associative discrimination in relation to victimisation was considered. Mr Thompson was a bus driver and he was disciplined for...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and long-term sickness According to HSE 27.3 million, working days were lost in 2014/15 due to absence with stress depression or anxiety counting for 9.9 million days, musculoskeletal discords 9.5 million days. The average days...
THE PEOPLEALCHEMIST EDIT: CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION, BUSINESS & LIFESTYLE EXPERIMENTATION FOR THEWOMANALCHEMIST – GET READY NOW FOR THE NEXT CRISIS - KIM KARDASHIAN IS WORKING FOR ME Dealing with people at work can be stressful, especially as a people...
THE PEOPLEALCHEMIST EDIT: CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION, BUSINESS & LIFESTYLE EXPERIMENTATION FOR THEWOMANALCHEMIST – I AM NOT MOVING TYPE Sometimes people have been in an organisation for so long that they just can't go anywhere else. They are often...
PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 9, 2022 THE PEOPLEALCHEMIST EDIT: CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION, BUSINESS & LIFESTYLE EXPERIMENTATION FOR THEWOMANALCHEMIST – THE ALPHA MALE How can you deal with the Alpha male in a work environment? Alpha males have not disappeared,...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and immigration rules On 25 February 2015, the Secretary of State issued a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, which highlighted a number of changes, most of which came into force on 6 April 2015. The Tier 2...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: Change And Transformation, Business & Lifestyle Experimentation for TheWomanAlchemist - Help: a snake is working for me Dealing with people at work can be one of the most challenging things, especially as a people manager....
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and whistleblowing In Chesterton v Nurmohamed, Mr Nurmohamed made the disclosure about alleged manipulation of the firm's accounts and claimed that by deliberately overstating costs and liabilities for its London office the...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Employment & Social Media Ok, you set up your social media account ( Facebook, Twitter and so on..) separate from your work and you do not identify yourself as working in a particular company. You have a rant or a few which of course...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, business, employee relations I don't get along with my boss: what can I do? To start with, don't let your job and your boss define who you are: it is a job, not your life. Develop tactics that work for yourself and your...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business, Change Management and Employee Relations We are currently going through a period of change and there are some employees who do not appear to want to embrace anything new or different and there seems to be some peer...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, business, career & performance - the most important indicator What is the most important indicator for career performance? According to the Harvard Business Review research, people with a positive mood are 31% more...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and Absence Management Many managers struggle to deal with an unexplained absence that also affects employees' ability to fulfil role requirements and feel there is nothing they can do. The reality is you do not have to...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, business, learning & development If we wanted to learn how to do some task outside work we wouldn't go on a course 6 or even 3 months earlier; we would Google it or use YouTube when we do need to know and action each step "there...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and apprenticeship Everyone is talking about apprentices but, behind the big headlines, there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the funding and ownership of schemes. People still think that the process is complicated and...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and learning How can we unlock knowledge in a short period of time at the minimum expense? The old way of learning was to book someone one a course/workshop etc; this can be a strain especially for small businesses both...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and TUPE TUPE refers to the "Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006" as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and workforce planning The number of over-50s in the UK workforce is set to rise by nearly 800,000 by 2022 like most advanced economies. Because they are enjoying better health and living longer, British citizens need to...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and testing for drugs have received an anonymous letter accusing an employee of taking drugs, in and out of work, and I am suspicious: can I test him/her for drink and drugs? If this is happening in your company right now...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and loyalty Money is not always the driver: if employees are paid in a way that supports their chosen lifestyle and they are not necessarily ambitious, then they are likely not to be loyal and could easily leave for another...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and body odour Ask if you can have a frank conversation and do acknowledge that you have been thinking about whether or not to approach the subject and you have decided to do so to help them avoid the embarrassment. Be kind...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and recruitment It comes a time in the life of small business owners when their company is growing and they cannot continue to provide the same service to their customers just by themselves and they need to hire their first...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and disclosure on spent convictions The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 allows certain spent convictions to be removed from criminal records so that they do not need to be disclosed, for example when applying for jobs....
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and apprenticeship One of the keys to making an Apprentice feel welcome is a good induction process that offers continued managerial support. This could potentially be the difference between learning, failing and then...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and flexible working Flexible working is not a new concept but is one that is often misconstrued. There are many types of flexible working, it is not something only women (in particular only mothers) ask for. Neither is...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and liability for contractors A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal case showed a logistics company to be liable for its contractor's drivers under TUPE law because the activities these employees undertook were "fundamentally...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and pay to quit scheme I recently read an article in the CIPD People Management magazine about an interesting people practice. Amazon is offering its staff up to $ 5,000 to leave the company immediately, the so-called "Pay...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business - The staff handbook is not a book to cure insomnia It comes a time in the life of a small business where a set of policies is required (or for bigger companies to update their Staff Handbook or, better still, recognise...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and how to improve productivity Can you improve productivity? And how do you characterise productivity in economic terms? It is more complex than just measuring how much you are doing in a given time. While labour...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, business and flexible working Is your company flexible? Many organisations use flexible working as a retention tool or just because, due to legislation, they have to. But they are missing out on untapped potential. There is a...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and new managers - how do you support a new manager It comes a time in the life of an entrepreneur/small business owner where growth leads to more staff and the consequent need to have someone else helping with...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and creative recruitment for SMEs When you are an SME, budgetary and resource constraints mean you might need to be a little creative. The traditional newspaper ads at an average cost of £1,500 plus don't guarantee...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR and Business What benefits do employees really value? When employees are asked which benefits would be most valuable for them, a majority opts for benefits that help them combine work with the quality of life. The value of work-life...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and the psychoactive substance act New legislation comes into effect from 26 May (today) which prohibits the production, distribution, sale, and supply of all psychoactive substances. With the exception of those in use...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and liabilities Until now, it was possible to hold employers liable for the acts (or omissions) of their employees. If they happened during the course of their employment. Are you liable for staff misdemeanours? Well, a...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and pay Commission and holiday pay is controversial subject. But if your reward strategy includes commission and uses overtime payments, then it is time that you review your policies and contracts of employment in...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and retention/choosing an appropriate benchmark for turnover What is an appropriate benchmark for employee turnover? It is common practice to benchmark businesses against other businesses in the same sector further...
ThePeopleAlchemist Edit: HR, Business and Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence skills and behaviour are essential factors in career success. And in life in general for that matter. Emotional intelligence skills can be summarised in 4 areas:...
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