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8 Essential HR Strategies for Startups: Build Your First Team
HR professionals hold the keys to more than just recruitment and management — they’re the architects of the team that will drive a startup’s success. So, you’re right to be thinking about the essential HR strategies for startups....
Decoding Digital Employee Experience: Strategies and Solutions
DEX evolved from this as companies began to rely on digital technologies to complete their tasks. DEX is the experience a person has when interacting with digital tools in your company....
Employee Benefits: How to Get The Most Out of Your Compensation Packages
Competitive compensation and benefits like these are fundamental to attracting and retaining top talent, meeting a team’s needs, keeping people engaged, and fostering a healthy working environment....
HR Tech: The Key To Achieving Pay Equity
Pay transparency is often misunderstood. Many people—including business leaders—often conflate pay equity with pay transparency, mistakenly thinking it’s just about being open about pay bands for different roles at their company or posting salary ranges to job ads....
Why Skills Management Is at The Heart of Modern Business Success
The talent of today counts professional development as a top priority. Recent Glint research shows that people consider learning and development opportunities the number-one factor that defines exceptional work environments....
The Ultimate Guide to Sabbatical Leave - for Employers and Employees.
We've all had those days where we'd rather stay in bed than go to work. It’s times like these that our thoughts drift to the idea of getting away for a bit, especially on a bleak and rainy commute....
Maternity Leave - A Short Guide To What You're Entitled To
A woman is entitled to the same employment rights as if she was in work, during maternity leave. This means that annual leave, including bank holidays, should be accrued as usual throughout the maternity leave period....
How Do Compassionate Leave and bereavement leave work?
It's the type of leave you hope never to take. But such is the nature of life (and death), you'll more than likely need some time off at some point for a bereavement or serous illness within your family or friend group....
Holiday Allowance - Can It Be Carried Over To the Following Year?
As we approach the end of the calendar year many of us will finalizing our holiday plans and looking to see how much allowance we have left (if any)....
A Guide to Paternity Leave in the UK
Paternity leave is often misunderstood. Is it equal to maternity leave? How much time off are dads entitled to? Can it be extended? We like to keep things simple here, so you'll find some straightforward answers below....
What Are The Different Types of Work Absence?
You'll be surprised about how many different types of absence from office work there are. In our other guides, we've discussed maternity and paternity leave, adoption leave and sickness leave....
Can Employees Take Sick Days As Holidays?
In the employee’s favor, it can work to reduce their amount of sick days on record. And, if they normally wouldn’t get paid for sickness absence (other than Statutory Sick Pay - SSP - which isn’t much), it means they’ll get paid for that day....
