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It's poll time! 📢  HR professionals, tell us what your plans are in the coming year when it comes to your HR software and platforms. Are you expanding your stack, downsizing or happy with what you've got? 👇

Four-day dreams, six-day realities, ...and the quest for work-life balance. ⚖ Deborah Hartung comments on the implications and lessons of Greece’s new six-day workweek and Asda’s decision to scrap its four-day trial. #worklifebalance #fourdayweek #wellbeing https://lnkd.in/eJaK4qg4

What can we learn from the Labour Party about the power of symbolic changes? As Keir Starmer enters his second week as UK's leader, it’s clear he has carefully chosen some early actions to symbolise a shift in government culture. Ella Overshott, Culture expert and director of Pecan Partnership has been paying close attention to these actions and believes there's a lesson business leaders can learn here about using symbolic actions to speed up culture change. Get the details here > https://lnkd.in/e2uGSJRf

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Happy Thursday! 🌞 This fortnight's HRZone LinkedIn newsletter brings you a good mixture of: > Moving from micromanagement to empowerment 💪 > What the new Labour government means for HR 💼 > After Pride, where to next? 🌈 > A simple culture change guide from #CulturePioneers 💜 Check it out! 💫 >>

You may intend to empower your employees, but is this a daily reality or does micromanagement slip through the net? Andrew Loveless, Director of Pecan Partnership shares five ways to enable freedom and autonomy at work, everyday. #micromanagement #leadership #employeeengagement https://lnkd.in/gaqY74Hh

Productivity is one of the biggest achievement metrics that organisations and individuals alike chase after through the ages. So what do we do about it? HRZone and Brightmine have joined forces to bring you a hub that will unpeel this blocker of modern work. In combining our expertise, we create a tour-de-force of knowledge to bring you the best insights and resources so you can make the greatest impact on productivity, whilst supporting wellbeing, in your organisation. Take a look for yourself and see... >> https://loom.ly/cJfYbNY << #productivity #employeeengagement #wellbeing

An HM Revenue & Customs Revenue and Customs (#HMRC) employee has successfully claimed #harassment after receiving an unwanted birthday card, despite previously requesting to be removed from the birthday card list. The #tribunal ruling highlights the need for careful consideration of employees’ wishes and sensitivity in workplace interactions. Maddy Christopher reports. #HRNews #Employmentlaw https://lnkd.in/g7E7AhvV

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? An internaliser of an externaliser? Our childhoods affect who we become and even impact us as leaders. #Leadership expert and consultant Nik Kinley and IMD Business School professor Shlomo Ben-Hur discuss how we can better understand these tendencies to perform well under pressure. #performance #behaviour #psychology https://lnkd.in/eQ_45qMz

We all know about burnout but have you heard of boreout? 😴 It's the latest workplace buzzword to describe employees who feel unfulfilled and stagnant in their job. Kate Palmer FCIPD from Peninsula UK outlines how to spot the signs and to prevent 'boreout' among your team, to help drive up engagement and retention levels >> https://lnkd.in/e5BmH5HJ #workplace #employees #engagement #retention #humanresources