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Working from home can present particular challenges for women

Workplace Insight

An area that has impacted teams across the country, and the world, has been working from home and other forms of remote work. Once a necessity imposed by the UK government to stop the spread in the early stages of the pandemic, it has now become a part of working life for many people in many different sectors.

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How to Protect Your Company from High Employee Turnover

Achievers

From the employee point of view, it’s important to realize that in 2015, almost 25 percent of American workers left their jobs voluntarily. Harvard Business Review cites an experiment in which half the workers at a travel website were allowed to choose whether they’d like to work from home. percent.

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Supporting staff through the menopause: what employers need to know

cipHR

In fact, 59% of working women aged between 45 and 55 who are experiencing menopausal symptoms say it has a negative impact on them at work, according to a recent study by the CIPD. million women over 50 in work in 2015), it’s something employers cannot ignore.

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Why are over-50s leaving the workforce?

Enjoy Benefits

Pension freedoms introduced by the then chancellor George Osborne in 2015 also allowed some over-55s to draw on their retirement funds early. The pandemic also led to many wanting a change in lifestyle and more time at home. The number of people not working because of long-term sickness has shot up since Covid hit.

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10 essential remote working statistics

cipHR

Here are 10 important facts you need to know about working away from the office. Technology has enabled the number of remote workers to rise rapidly in recent years; the TUC estimates that the number of UK people working from home increased by a fifth in the 10 years to 2016, and now stands at around 1.5

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The CEO’s Ultimate Guide To Remote Work, Part 4: Shifting Your Mindset

15Five

As I recently shared with CNN in an article titled How to work from home without losing your sanity , it’s important to not underestimate the psychological impact of being alone. Adam Grant shared last year about a recent Nick Bloom experiment showing that if you let call centers work from home, they’re 13% more productive.

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Six reasons it pays to trust your employees

cipHR

For flexible or remote working to flourish, employers need to trust their staff to work unsupervised, wherever they are. Recruiting top talent is harder if there is no trust in the workplace, because frustrated employees may well post poor reviews which will dissuade others from applying for vacancies.

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