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Remote working has led to managers spying more on staff – here are three ways to curb it

May 12, 2021 | Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness

Evronia Azer, Coventry University With so many more people working from home during the pandemic, employers have stepped up the extent to which they are monitoring them online. Not so many years ago, employees were having to adjust to having their work emails...

Making space for Buddha in the boardroom

May 7, 2021 | Articles, Employee Wellness

It seems farfetched to imagine that an ancient meditation technique, practised by Buddhists over 2,000 years ago, could have a place in the 21st-century corporate boardroom. Yet, despite criticisms that it is just another faddish appropriation (and aberration) of...

Everything you know about giving feedback at work could be wrong

Feb 28, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Performance Appraisal

Management guru Marcus Buckingham has a bone to pick with one of the prevailing trends in management wisdom -- that companies need to get a lot better at giving tough, candid feedback, and need to do it a lot more often. As indicative of the trend, he points to recent...

How time and mobility can make a 4-hour work week

Feb 16, 2019 | Careers, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Productivity

Is it possible to have a life of complete freedom without being a millionaire? By using time and mobility as a currency it might just be. This is one of the underlying truths of Tim Ferris’ book The 4-Hour Work Week. The best-selling author has been an adviser for...

The Chopping Block Paradox: Why Companies Cut Programs They Can’t Afford to Lose

Feb 16, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Productivity

The CEOs of Best Buy, Yahoo!, and Hewlett Packard all nixed flexible work policies in response to financial downturns. “During this critical turnaround period, HP needs all hands on deck,” said Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. “[T]he more employees we get into the...