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Employee Wellness in a Remote Working Environment
With flexible working the new norm for many organisations, we explore how companies can support their team members who continue to work remotely, whether it’s full time or in a hybrid capacity. This article examines how leaders can support their remote teams to ensure their wellness and maintain their mental health, looking at two best-practice case studies to see how this works in operation.
What Makes a Top FD: The HR Director’s Viewpoint
In this series of articles, we speak to local business leaders and financial experts to discover the essential qualities and attributes needed to make it as a top Finance Director (FD). For this instalment we spoke to Hazel Hendley, HR Director (HRD) at Ordnance Survey to get a Human Resources perspective on what makes a top FD.
Return to the office: Three tips for managing your mental health
Now, as employees return to office life in the ‘new normal’, many of those back-to-work anxieties will be the same as after a period of prolonged absence. In this blog we offer our top three tips for managing your mental health now that you are back in the workplace.
Remote Workplace Wellness
With the remote workforce set to stay for the medium and perhaps longer term, we asked our team for some of their top tips for staying motivated, looking after their mental health and keeping generally healthy whilst working from home.
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Conference
Earlier this month CMA’s HR Division hosted a virtual Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace conference via Zoom. It was supported by VIVID, the winner of the CIPD award for Best Mental Health and Wellbeing Initiative 2020. Following the conference, we asked VIVID's HR Manager to share some of the key insights from VIVID’s initiative.
What are the signs you need more HR presence in your business?
An HR team plays a significant role in ensuring a company copes with the fast-changing environment of legislation and in attracting more top-quality employees. This article looks at how you can get the right balance of employees per HR employee and when you should look at expanding your HR function to fully maximise on business efficiency.