Is Hybrid Working All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

Posted in: HR Updates on 09/08/2021 The global pandemic has shone the spotlight on remote working and made it a reality in many organisations including those previously averse to such. Suddenly, many organisations were forced into new ways of working with little choice, but many have since realised the benefit. As the pandemic ebbs a...

Mergers And Acquisitions On The Rebound - The Role of HR in all Things TUPE

Posted in: HR Updates on 20/07/2021 For the latter half of 2021, experts across the M&A disciplines are predicting a continued-up turn in confidence levels as a result of the following conditions: a more stabilised global political status; the vaccine roll out; and improvement in capital markets. These are all underlying factors...

Mental Health First Aid: Spotting The Signs And What To Do About Them

Posted in: HR Updates on 29/06/2021 Last week I completed day 1 of a 2-day Mental Health at Work First Aid course. With rates of suicide among men in Northern Ireland, particularly young men being the highest in the UK, as well as the anticipated post-pandemic rise in PTSD, employers need to be vigilant to the signs and symptoms of c...

When Coffee isn’t Enough… Combatting Work Place Fatigue In Remote Workers

Posted in: HR Updates on 24/06/2021 ‘I’ll get round to it soon – I’m just too tired.’ ‘I just don’t have the energy. The tank is empty.’ ‘I don’t have time to stop and rest.’ How many of us have been feeling like this recently? Our self-imposed expectation of having to ‘keep it all together’ during the Covid pandemic and our fear o...

Mental Health and Wellbeing - A Structured Approach

Posted in: HR Updates on 03/06/2021 MORE than £18 million was spent on anti-depressants in Northern Ireland last year, a £7 million increase on the previous year. Whilst health officials said price increases among some of the most commonly used anti-depressant drugs had led to a "significant impact" on costs, there is no doubt that p...

Motivating Employees - Does Performance-Related Pay Work?

Posted in: HR Updates on 03/06/2021 The rationale behind performance-related pay (PRP) is that it gives employees an incentive to work harder in return for a financial reward and in doing so generates higher levels of productivity. Yet despite the common use of PRP, research indicates that it generally not effective in terms of promo...

Creating a Mental Health Strategy

Posted in: HR Updates on 07/05/2021 Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 10 to 16 May 2021. This is a time when many employers will raise awareness of mental health in the workplace and run some initiatives to support and promote it. While this is an important campaign it is worth remembering that mental health support should exten...

Diversity and Inclusion – the Fight Goes On

Posted in: HR Updates on 07/04/2021 Were you as surprised as I was when the Sewell report was launched? No systemic racism in GB was the leaked theme of the report. Like all these reports, there is more in the detail, and I would recommend a close reading. I was struck by one of the anomalies, if there is no systemic racism, then w...

[Podcast] Menopause in the Workplace

Posted in: HR Updates on 16/12/2020 World Menopause Day was observed on the 18th October and in this latest Podcast with Clarendon Executive, Mairead Regan and Hugh McPoland discuss how the symptoms of menopause can impact on work performance and outline what employers can do to help support women who are undergoing this life change....

Keeping Talkative Interviewees On Track

Posted in: HR Updates on 01/12/2020 We’ve all been there; that overzealous interviewee who doesn’t seem to know when to stop talking while the interview panel squirm and surreptitiously gland at the clock praying for the candidate to run out of steam before launching into the next question. In my experience the first “tell us about y...