A new year naturally brings reflection.
For many HR, People & Culture leaders, January is the moment to step back and ask important questions about employee support:What’s working well?Where are the pressure points increasing?And where might our current provision no longer reflect the realities of modern wor...
Pre-Covid, if you asked an employer for a common reason why a member of staff might take an extended period of leave, they would probably reply “maternity leave” or “sickness”.
Now, as we all know well, the landscape has shifted.
Many companies found tha...
Charlie Hainsworth was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2017, aged 38. She’d gone to her GP after noticing a strange hardness to one of her breasts.
Within three weeks she was told that the cancer had spread to her bones and that it was incurable, something known as s...