Stories

It’s known for its tulips and windmills. But, did you know that the Dutch Employment Market is much more diverse than ours.  A whopping 75% of working women work part-time in the [...]

You know what the problem with hybrid working is? There are as many ways of doing it as there are employees! So, it ain’t easy for the manager. In fact, it’s a bit like herding cats. [...]

The Chancellor has announced a range of measures to significantly shake-up of the welfare system. OK.  Now, we’ve been thinking this through. Granny reckons that a huge 8 million adults in [...]

Hybrid Working Warning! Is yours failing? You surveyed your people. Listened to what they wanted. You set ground rules & initially it worked. So, what’s gone wrong? Why the tears? Why [...]

Leaders, right now, are responding to the challenges of remote and hybrid work models against a backdrop of blazing inflation, supply chain problems, the fall out of Brexit, the war in Ukraine as [...]

Leaders who favour a blanket approach to hybrid working asking workers to work in the office, 2 or 3 days a week, or we’ll all do a 4 day week, are missing a trick! They aren’t [...]

Hybrid Working uncovers a number of knotty challenges for middle managers. 1. Many Managers haven’t been trained to manage the complex organisation of work patterns that hybrid brings to your [...]

How can we bring a smile to your face this summer?  Well, when you are implementing a new workforce model, you really do need a good sounding board to support you. So, as Smart Working [...]

There are many different types of options to choose from and implementing Hybrid Workforce Models can be complex. So, as practitioners – where do we begin……. Hybrid working is [...]

Job Descriptions! Why are they full of such drivel? Well, according to history, IBM started it. They produced a job description back in 1949 and it seemed to catch on. That was 73 years ago, so [...]