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British small and medium enterprises are still confident about their prospects over the next five years despite the possible challenges posed by Brexit, a recent research report published by MetLife UK has been able to suggest. The poll of SMEs with between 50 and 300 employees found 76% are optimistic about their business prospects for […]

Despite the significant leaps forward recorded in the field of flexible working, close to a third of UK workers still feel that their employers do not provide the level of flexibility and support they require. According to a YouGov survey for MHR, 32 percent of employees don’t receive the option to work flexibly. Furthermore, employees […]

What is flexible working? Flexible working is a type of working which is outside from the usual working hours in some way which suits the employee’s needs. Types of flexible working include job sharing, part time jobs, compressed hours, and staggered hours. All employers who have worked for an employee for 26 weeks are eligible […]

According to a visitor management white paper by Proxyclick, two out of every five people in the 2,000 US and UK workers surveyed claim their perception of a company or brand has been negatively affected by their experience in the corporate lobby or reception area. 71% cited unfriendly receptionists as the most important reason for […]

What is buddy punching? Buddy punching is the act of one employee falsely registering the arrival or exit of another employee. This leads to the employer paying them for longer than they should, and so it is actually a form of wage theft. There can be many different reasons why the particular employee will not […]

According to the government website, all employees who have worked for their company for 26 weeks or more have the right to apply for flexible working. Broadly, flexible working just means work which is more suitable for the employee than their current assigned hours. Examples of different types of flexible working include job sharing (splitting […]

The rise of presenteeism in the workplace is directly related to a lack of security on one’s job, experts have recently argued. Nine out of ten UK employees (92%) have gone into work despite being sick this year and the top reason for presenteeism is the fear of not getting paid, according to new research […]

British companies make more effort to integrate freelancers into the corporate culture compared with businesses in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, a recent news report has been able to suggest. Because of the continued labour market shortages, companies are finding it increasingly difficult to find suitable employees. That is one of the reasons why […]

It is 2018, and yet companies are still using self-reporting timesheets to record their employee hours. Why? Self-reporting has multiple drawbacks. Firstly, you are relying on people’s memory. People are likely to forget exactly what hours they worked, especially if the timesheet is monthly rather than hourly, and to fill it in with general ideas, […]

Lush owes thousands of employees thousands of dollars each after payroll failure Lush Australia, the national branch of a leading cosmetics firm, needs to repay more than 5000 employees a total of $2m. Peta Granger, Lush’s national director, told reporters in Sydney that in some cases employees were owed between $5,000 and $10,000, though some […]

A city hall in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, is planning to deploy a biometric time and attendance system in an attempt to efficiently monitor the working hours of its employees, a recent news report in the local media has revealed. Government offices will use the biometric time and attendance technology to track employee time and attendance […]

Workers across the UK might soon be looking at a pay rise as one in two businesses (50%) are set to grant staff pay rises of over 2% in the next year, according to a new survey by leading business organisation British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and online recruitment company Indeed. The survey, of over […]