In this video, Professor Sara Connolly (University of East Anglia) offers insight into how to build a business case for investing in improving workplace wellbeing. Considering the wellbeing of your staff is key to being a good employer and a successful organisation. Wellbeing contributes to staff engagement, it helps with retention and enhances productivity. Staff […]
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As part of our ‘Building and Embedding Resilience’ miniseries, PrOPEL Hub knowledge exchange fellows Dr Nicola Murray and Dr Helen Fitzhugh explore what is meant by resilience and why it matters. The concept of ‘resilience’ has been in the spotlight lately as organisations navigate the numerous challenges thrown up by the COVID pandemic. However, despite
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In early 2020, no one could have predicted. The global pandemic has tested organisations and their employees to the limit, in some cases requiring a total rethink of the way they do business. As organisations seek to build back after Covid-19 and whatever lies beyond, developing resilience at an individual, team and organisational level is
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Sleep, rest, relaxation, productivity, mental health
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In this blog Alan Felstead of Cardiff University discusses findings from his new report “Outlining the Contours of the ‘Great Homeworking Experiment’ and its Implications for Wales
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Professor Kevin Daniels shares evidence based insights on how organisations can continue to promote employee wellbeing even in the most trying of circumstances.
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In this blog, Amy Isham and Helen Fitzhugh reflect on three common ideas about pursuing productivity growth and what these different approaches mean in practice.
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What can we learn from research on ‘safety critical’ workplaces? Did you know what ‘PPE’ meant before March 2020? If you did, it was probably because you needed personal protective equipment to work in one of the existing ‘safety critical’ workplaces: somewhere where serious harm or death could result with no protection in place. Now,
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In late March 2020, we were told – by the Prime Minister no less – to work at home if we could. How many workers were able to respond to this call and what effect did this have on their mental well-being? Alan Felstead and Darja Reuschke present analysis of new data which answers these
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Remote working for many white-collar workers and managers became a sudden reality as UK workplaces went into lockdown. What has the experience for these remote employees been like, how long do they think it will last and what does the experience tell us about the future of work? To investigate these issues, Jonathan Morris of
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