Sun.Dec 17, 2023

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Reproval for AV Preeminent® Lawyer

Florida Workers' Comp

I recently noted that profanity may be the path to credibility. See Crass Credibility (December 2023). If it is, then how might we identify the most credible, the exemplar? Perhaps we would search for the most profane? I learned a new word this week. I do a great deal of reading and writing. It is somewhat rare to run across a word with which I have no familiarity.

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Two thirds of employees unaware of new flexible working rights

Workplace Insight

A new survey from Acas claims that over two-thirds of employees (70 percent) are not aware of new flexible working rights that mean they will have a right to request flexible working from their employer from day one of their job next year. All employees who have worked for their employer for 26 weeks or more currently have the right to ask if they can work flexibly.

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What Is the Gig Economy and Can You Tap Into Its Full Potential?

HR Digest

Most of us know what the gig economy is and why it’s grown so popular, a natural result of the traditional employment avenues becoming all too unsatisfactory for workers. While Uber is the first name to come to mind when we think about the rise of the gig economy, it isn’t the first or the only one to have triggered the explosion of the industry.

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Only a quarter of firms say that staff will need to work full time from an office in future

Workplace Insight

New research by the British Chambers of Commerce Insights Unit and technology firm Cisco, shows less than 30 percent of firms expect their workforce to be fully in person over the next five years. The survey of over 1,000 businesses, of which 96 percent were SMEs, found just 27 percent of respondents predict their staff will be fully in-person over the next five years. 47 percent anticipate their staff to be mostly in-person, 16 percent expect mostly remote and 8 percent fully remote.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive