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A recent survey has highlighted something many UK employers should pay attention to: there may be a bigger gap than expected between how businesses think employees feel and how employees actually experience work. According to research reported by People Management, only 60% of UK employees rated their overall employee experience as “good” or “excellent”. This

Employment law has changed, and for many small businesses, May is the perfect time to pause and ask one simple question: are our HR documents still up to date? When you are running a business, HR policies can easily become something you only think about when there is a problem. A sickness absence issue comes

Sickness absence remains a real challenge for UK employers. According to the latest Office for National Statistics data, an estimated UK employees lost 148.8 million working days because of sickness or injury in 2025. While this was slightly lower than in 2024, it was still 9.8 million days higher than the pre-pandemic level in 2019. On

For many small and medium-sized businesses in the UK, HR often starts in a spreadsheet. At the beginning, it works. It’s simple, familiar, and doesn’t require extra investment. When you only have a few employees, it feels manageable, everything is in one place and easy to update. But as the business grows, things start to

This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a time dedicated to recognising and celebrating different ways of thinking and experiencing the world. In many organisations, conversations around neurodiversity are becoming more common, but there is still a misunderstanding that talented employees naturally thrive in any work environment. In reality, this is not always the case. Some