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Employers’ top wins and lessons of 2022 – and what they’re planning for 2023
2022 was quite the year. It wasn’t quite 2020 for many, but it still posed numerous challenges – for instance, Russia’s invasion...

Workplace horror stories we wish were not real
When we were kids, we used to share scary stories with our friends. And, more often than not, we would exaggerate a little bit (...

RecFest 2022: Six unexpected findings on workplace mental health
What do you do when nine out of 10 employees in your company say they’ve struggled with mental health at work, and a good portio...

Implementing an alternating four-day workweek: how & why
When the pandemic hit, we at Service Direct, like countless other businesses around the world, quickly found ourselves trying to...

Invest in your employees: It’s worth it for both you and them
In its 2019 Workplace Learning Report, LinkedIn discovered that 94% of employees would stay longer at their current employer if ...

Call it what it is: ‘Fawning’ – and have the courage to intervene
Here, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Defoe discusses the fourth of the four stress responses – fawning – and talks about ways in which you ca...

5 tips on making workplaces LGBTQ inclusive
Adding a rainbow filter over your company’s logo may seem to be enough to indicate that your organization is LGBTQ inclusive. St...

Office space trends: if you build it right, they will come
If anyone has the data on trends, it’s Google. So, if everyone wants to work from home, you’d expect Google to know and plan the...

Workplace community is more important than most in US
Face it – we spend significant chunks of our waking hours at work, whether it’s virtual or “real life” presence in the working e...

Workplace community is tops in the minds of UK workers
Since we spend significant chunks of our waking hours at work, it make sense that friendships, partnerships and teamsmanship sho...

How to support your employees during a crisis
Russia invaded Ukraine, and Ukrainian lives changed forever. Work had to stop, soldiers and civilians mobilized, people evacuate...

Why you need the Pygmalion effect in your workplace
To explain what the Pygmalion effect is, why it’s important for the workplace, and how you can implement it in your organization...