It’s no easy feat to achieve high employee morale. It takes more than a salary to ensure that employees are motivated and engaged, and during COVID-19 employers have faced different challenges to maintain employee morale. The good news is that after the first six weeks of lockdown, one in three HR professionals believed that employee…

Employment law is what regulates your relationship as Employers with your employees. They are overarching laws that govern what you as Employers can expect from your employees. In addition, it stipulates what you as an Employer can ask an employee to do, and what rights do your employees have in the workplace. As it currently…

‘’Often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one that has been opened for us’  Helen Keller  Further to Rishi Sunak’s Summer statement issued last week we now know that there will be no plans to extend the Furlough scheme any more than has already been done so. It…

‘’Hiring the right people takes time, the rights questions, and a healthy does of curiosity’’   Richard Branson. As we slowly emerge from the lockdown and start to enter our new normal businesses are evaluating and addressing what is most important to get back up and running. Customer needs have shifted, and roles are being reviewed…

The redundancy process is one that must be handled with great care and sensitivity.  Your people will have already experienced great change over these last few months whether that be working from home, home schooling, bereavements, furlough, loss of perceived freedoms to name a few. To then be faced with a redundancy situation, although the…

‘’The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.’’ -B.B King Whilst we are seeing the easing of lockdown there are many of whom furlough is ongoing or will be preparing for a gradual return to work on part time hours. Some of us may be fully immersed at…

Employee Engagement After The Pandemic [Free 20 Questions Checklist] An estimated 20 million individuals in the UK worked from home during the Coronavirus pandemic compared to pre-lockdown figures of less than 2 million. Employees have been faced with numerous challenges concerning this sudden workplace change, including remote technology, homeschooling and homeworking, mental health challenges and…

One of our main focusses at HR Star is employee engagement, and we believe that your people ultimately drive business success, that they are at the heart of your business and that the more engaged your people are the more successful your business will be. Win-win! We continue to operate within the most uncertain of…