Is the most popular person in your business singlehandedly destroying it? For some years my path has regularly crossed an individual who on the face of it is the driving force behind the team’s success. She brings in energy, vibrancy, and draws people together. She appears caring and empathetic. But what I have increasingly become […]
It’s been my experience across the past few years that Google page 1, in trying to be helpful, is actually causing untold problems in our society. Have you found that everyone is becoming ever more lazy at checking the facts or digging into the detail? Books have already gone ‘audible’ so we don’t even have […]
Welcome to my blog. In this blog I wanted to talk about zero hours and flexibility. It infuriates me when employment practices are dictated by over emotional and ill thought through media/public hysteria. In recent years, I have been horrified by the demonisation of zero hours contracts. We live in a world where 75% of […]
#MeToo has been trending since the Harvey Weinstein media fury kicked off. Men and women are coming forwards saying that they too have had to deal with harassment. I empathise. It is endemic. Both the serious stuff and the lesser kind of harassment. The loud assertive voices saying ‘get over it’ or ‘you’re being over […]
A topic that seems to have raised its head on a regular basis over the past few months has been that of anger. Perhaps prompted by us at Jaluch supporting a lot of organisations with redundancies, grievances and disciplinaries at the moment…. a real hotbed of change and unrest perhaps brought on in part by […]
In recent months at Jaluch, we have seen more racism in the workplace than at any other time I can recall in the past 20 years of running an HR business. And whilst some of it is mild (if there is such a thing) what is really worrying is that quite a bit of it […]
Are non-compete/restraint of trade clauses important to your business? Probably submerged under a deluge of press about Brexit and the shenanigans of various politicians, it has barely hit the media that the government is currently consulting about removing the option of non-compete clauses. This will be in order to ‘make Britain the best place in […]
A few years ago I spent some time with a business associate whose favourite saying was ‘we do what we do…’ leaving unsaid of course, that in doing what we do, we then have to face up to the consequences of our actions and take responsibility for those. Legislation often has unintended consequences. Who would […]
When you read about and see the complex people problems HR managers have to deal with, you really have to wonder if they should be paid more than anyone else. Sometimes you couldn’t make it all up, what employees get up to, what they fail to learn, what chaos they land themselves in. It’s a […]
For 20+ years, employers in the UK have seen a relentless increase in employment law. But a few changes in the past few years have started to turn this around. As a result, I know many employers are now breathing an enormous sigh of relief. Just a few days ago, the new Tribunal claims figures […]
