Name: Why are workplace absences on the rise?
Start: 2024-03-25T16:02:00Z
End: 2024-03-25T16:02:06.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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‘InsiderHR’ is an educational resource that lets human resources professionals explore contemporary HR issues in a level of depth unavailable through more traditional avenues.

Channelling valuable thought leadership from experts and academics to those actively involved in the HR field, delivering knowledge to transform HR practitioners’ approach in a challenging and ever-evolving business environment.

Eagle Hill Consulting has reported that connected employees see a 60% improvement in their ability to perform effectively and are 55% more likely to go above and beyond their responsibilities. These outcomes show how connection drives success not only for individuals but also for teams and the organization, meaning fostering a sense of connection is no longer a “nice to have”, but a business imperative. In 2025, connection will be vital for thriving in hybrid, inclusive, and fast-evolving workplaces.

Join Stephen Cuppello, Director of Psychology at Thomas on Thursday 23rd January at 11am GMT to explore the critical role of connection in driving workplace success.

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar:

- Define the different types of connection and their impact
- The common challenges to fostering a connected workforce and how to overcome them.
- Understand how to measure employee connection
- Solutions for maintaining strong connections for hybrid environments
- How to empower employees to self-manage connection and collaboration
 
This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, people managers and those looking to enhance organisational performance through creating connection.

How to leverage team connectivity for success in 2025

In this episode, Verity Gough talks to Chief People Officer Trish Hewitt about the impending New Employment Rights Bill, why it's important, and key elements that HR needs to understand. With practical tips for preparing your organisation for the changes, Trish gives us the low-down on what HR needs to know.

Guest: Trish Hewitt

Trish Hewitt is a seasoned people professional with 20 years of experience. She is a Chief People Officer, runs her own HR consultancy and has a popular HR podcast, a YouTube Channel and has achieved viral success with TikTok. Passionate that HR should be about uplifting people, Trish has worked across a myriad of different industries and counts a number of celebrities amongst her clients. 
Find her on TikTok and YouTube: https://linktr.ee/taphr

Questions for Trish:
What is the Employment Rights Bill and why is it so important?
Why have we already seen changes to the Bill?
Is the bill something positive for employees and employers in the UK?
What are the key things people need to know about the Bill?
Are there things that we were expecting to be in the Bill that haven’t been included?
When are the changes likely to happen?
Could there be changes to the bill before it becomes law?
Is there anything that employers need to do in preparation for the bill?

New Employment Rights Bill: What does HR need to know?

Gartner reports that 75% of HR leaders say managers are overwhelmed, and 82% believe they’re not equipped to lead change. In today's fast-paced work environment, managers face immense pressure from constant demands and increasing workloads. This often leads to disengagement, stress, and poor performance, significantly impacting their teams and the overall success. Addressing these issues is crucial to ensure that managers can lead effectively, maintain team morale, and drive organizational success.

Join Alex Clinton, Global Training Specialist at Thomas & Jennifer Robinson, Organisational Development Manager at Canopius Group on Thursday 26th September at 11am GMT to understand how to help managers and teams build a culture of understanding, respect, and connection to enhance performance.

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar:

- Understand the root cause of why managers are overwhelmed
- Explore the critical role managers play in team engagement
- Strategies for building trust and respect within teams to foster collaboration
- Techniques to boost team engagement and productivity through effective leadership
- Insights into leveraging people science tools for improved manager effectiveness

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, people managers and those looking to enhance their leadership capabilities and foster a positive work environment.

The Manager Impact: How to Build Effective Teams and Drive Success

In this episode of the Mind, Body, Work Podcast, host Joanne Swann sits down with Simon Garrity, Senior Workforce Management expert at Protime, to explore the evolving landscape of work in the UK. They discuss how businesses are navigating shifts in productivity, the impact of new legislation, and the possibility of a four-day workweek.
Simon shares insights from his extensive experience helping organisations improve performance through innovative workforce management technology. Tune in for a conversation that examines the future of work, company culture, and what businesses can expect in the coming years.

Information on Protime

Founded in 1995, Protime is the market leader in time recording, workforce scheduling and access control. Thanks to a continuous focus on innovation, the company delivers workforce management solutions across a wide range of customers and sectors. For example, Protime has over 5,000 time registration installations in Europe and this at almost 4,700 customers across Europe. Protime has been voted Great Place to Work for 10 years in a row and strives to be a "Once in a lifetime employer". The organisation has about 500 'Protimers' and achieved a turnover of EUR 54.6 million in 2023.

Information on Simon Garrity

Simon is Senior Workforce management expert at Protime. Simon specialises in helping organisations use technology improve productivity, commercial performance and employee wellbeing through technology. He is responsible for the UK business of Protime, a market leader in time registration, access control, visitor registration and personnel planning.

Questions:
- How do we view time and productivity in 2024?
- There are upcoming legislative changes with the HMRC, also in the news is the proposed four-day working week. Can you take us through those?
- Given the way the UK views work and productivity, how is this going to impact company culture?
- What is productivity going to look like in three years time?

"4 Day Work Week and Boundaried Work", Is This The Future For The UK?

Join our webinar on Thursday 13th June at 10am to hear a comprehensive action plan for HR professionals who want to introduce a fertility benefit at their company.

Attend this session to hear Kirsty McLean, Head of Wellbeing at Nomura UK, and 
Becky Kearns, Co-Founder of Fertility Matters at Work and ex-HR professional at HR at Vision Express, e-on, Mars and M&S, discussing what fertility benefits are, how they work and how they affect employees. 

They will then answer these key questions for anyone looking to implement a fertility benefit at their company:

How do you get executive buy-in for your fertility benefit initiative?
How can you add a fertility benefit to your existing health insurance cover?
How can you ensure the benefit is inclusive to same sex couples and single parents?
How much will a fertility benefit cost at your company?
Why is it important that your benefit provider offers at-home scans and consultations? 
How can you set up, or get support from, a fertility ESG?

The UK is experiencing a work engagement crisis, with a recent Gallop study showing that only 10% of employees are engaged at work, compared to 34% in the USA and 33% in India. Also, while 61% expect a fertility benefit, only 17% of UK employers offer one, compared to 39% in the states.

Offering a fertility benefit at work shows you care for your colleagues and support them at stressful times in their life. This in turn will strengthen their emotional bond and commitment to your company.

Fertility benefits - a practical guide for HR

Amid the Return to Office trend and reports of a cooling jobs market, some employers talk of rebalancing the emphasis on wellbeing, adding an increased focus on productivity.

But what does productivity mean as we near the mid-point in this second decade of the 21st  century? Bright Horizons clients say their focus is on workforce sustainability and future-proofing. 

So, among the best employers, productivity is not seen as a narrow focus on ‘getting more out of people, at all costs’ but rather ensuring that great people, with all their expensive training and valuable knowledge and networks, stay fit to keep working and are able to give of their best day-to-day.

We’ll be including a look at newly-released data from Bright Horizons’ client employee survey: the Work+Family Snapshot.

Join this lively conversation, with our panel of leading thinkers, as we discuss:

- What we understand by productivity in our fast-changing world of work
- Strategic actions being taken by leading employers to support sustained high performance.
- Evidence that employers helping remove life’s everyday hurdles see better productivity, performance and wellbeing in their employees as well as higher employer approval

Reserve your place today.

What does Productivity mean in 2024?

Collecting feedback has its challenges. While the majority (59%) of HR pros believe they get the right amount of employee feedback, over a quarter (29%) say they don’t get enough.*  Of course, a critical component of is getting feedback that is open and honest, and here 72% are concerned that feedback doesn’t reflect how employees actually feel

In this webinar SurveyMonkey will show you top tips for creating surveys that help you capture relevant feedback. We will discuss how to set yourself up for success using survey best practices as well as tips for analysing your feedback.

You will learn:
 
- Survey design – designing your survey in a way that optimises data collection

- Survey frequency - how often should you survey your employees

- The steps to analyse your data to unlock the most insights

- Integrations that can help you get more value from your surveys

- Turning insights into action

If your surveys are already built out and collecting data, not to worry - you can use what you learn in this webinar to revamp your surveys and start analysing your data like a pro!

Join Lily Walling, Solutions Engineer at SurveyMonkey and James Marsh from HRreview as they guide you towards getting the most out of your employee feedback.

Register today!

Make the most out of your employee feedback

Across all the changes of the last 5 years, Wellbeing has stayed firmly on the agenda for leading employers. It’s seen as a vital focus for talent retention, attraction and employee experience among the most competitive employers. Now with five (or more) generations in the workplace and a dizzying array of wellbeing benefits available, how do you achieve a coherent strategy?

Andrei Ursu of Bloomberg and Benedict Gautrey of Great Places to work will discuss how paying attention to family support gives a clear backbone to a wellbeing policy across life stages. This requires a wide definition of family (including children of all ages, elder relatives, partners, family-forming, pets to name a few, among a diverse range of family structures and partnerships).

Jennifer Liston-Smith of Bright Horizons will delve deeper into their 2024 Modern Families Index to explore – among other things – the intersectional needs of the sandwich generation with children and elder dependants and the need for smart thinking in addressing family support.

Join this lively conversation, with our panel of leading thinkers, as we discuss:

- Practical and strategic actions being taken by leading employers across life stages.
- How to achieve high engagement through innovative strategies for inclusion at the point of need.
- The role of networks and champions in communicating and shaping wellbeing benefits

Multigenerational Wellbeing: the Role of Family Benefits

According to Gallup 85% of employees are not engaged in the workplace - with UK employees amongst the least engaged in the world (at 10%).

In a SurveyMonkey study, 44% of HR pros ranked employee engagement as a top HR metric for 2024. It’s no secret that when employees are engaged, your business thrives. However, building an engagement program is no easy feat. The first step is asking for regular feedback across the employee lifecycle and taking action to create a better workplace.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to create a workplace where your employees flourish by uncovering what drives engagement and pinpointing areas of opportunity.

You will learn:

- The latest HR trends and opportunities to help build a world-class workforce*
- How to get the answers you need to create a better workplace, increase engagement, and retain your top talent
- How to put feedback into action
 
Join Natalie Aghdaey, Senior Product Specialist, Survey Monkey & James Marsh, HRreview to find the answers you need to create a better workplace, increase engagement, and retain your top talent.

Register today

4 strategies for building a world class workforce

The post-pandemic world promised a significant shift in roles and responsibilities of men and women when it came to family and work. Many men had taken a more active role in the home during lockdowns and Generation Z and Millennial fathers were already vocal in expecting more flexibility at work around family life. Gender Pay Gap reporting resumed, and many organisations returned to ambitious targets for gender representation at senior levels. 

However, as 2024 gets underway, families are still struggling under cost-of-living pressures and – amid a pull back toward central offices – many women opt to remain in hybrid or remote roles, to save on after-school and wraparound care. As a result, some feel less visible at work, and lacking in practical support to pursue progression. Is there instead a pending crisis for employers and their gender representation targets?

Upcoming research, Bright Horizons Modern Families Index, will be published at the beginning of February (surveying over 3,000 working parents) highlighting fascinating statistics around this very topic, including insightful comparisons to last year’s figures!

Join this lively conversation, as we discuss:
• Latest research on male and female attitudes to work-life fit and the risk associated with these.
• Insightful employer examples and what works for gender inclusion and career progression.
• As we approach International Women’s Day (8th March) what can, and should, employers be doing to support parents and carers of all genders with the mental load?

Is the New Normal Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?

A report from Glassdoor revealed 76% of hiring managers find attracting the right job candidates to be their greatest challenge highlighting the intense competition for top talent in today's job market. 

For HR and recruitment professionals, it underscores the need to refine the recruitment process early on to prevent the costly consequences of hiring candidates who aren’t a good fit and ensure hires possess both the necessary technical abilities and interpersonal skills for organisational success.

Join Phil Mellows-Facer, Managing Director at BMS Performance, and Kira van Niekerk, Global Director of Training and Enablement at Thomas on Thursday 25th January at 11am GMT to understand how to gain a competitive advantage in talent acquisition.

Our experts will discuss:

- Strategies for engaging and retaining top talent throughout the recruitment process.
- The importance of creating a positive candidate experience.
- Understanding soft skills that are pivotal for sales success.
- Solutions for assessing and evaluating soft skills in candidates.
- Practical tips and strategies to optimise your hiring approach.

This webinar is for C-suite executives, HR and talent acquisition professionals looking to gain a deeper understanding into enhancing your recruitment approach for organisational success.

Rethinking recruitment to get ahead

2023 was a big year for HR practitoners but what will 2024 look like? Join our webinar to hear Jessica Brannigan, Lead People Scientist, Culture Amp, discussing the trends that will likely shape the HR landscape in 2024 and offer a strategic roadmap to navigate & address the unique challenges that HR leaders should prepare for.

Key discussion topics:
- Emerging trends that will define the HR landscape in 2024
- What HR & people leaders should prepare for
- How to equip your team with actionable strategies to address the unique challenges

HR Trends: What's to come in 2024?

In the recently published 2023 UK Benefits Strategy & Benchmarking survey conducted by Gallagher, the top challenges cited by respondents included, the relationship between getting the right benefits design and effectively communicating the benefits available.

Nearly all companies will be at different points on their benefits journey and understanding the nuances of benefits design and communication can often be overlooked.

In this podcast, reward expert Sarah Jefferys, Head of Reward Consulting at Gallagher and Andrew Drake, Director of People Experience Consulting at Gallagher put forward their cases in a lively debate about the importance of design v communication, which should you prioritise and why.

The Great Benefits Debate - Design vs Comms

Organisations need the right workforce skills to deliver on growth in a constantly evolving business landscape, with Talent scarcity continuing to be a major concern for many organisations.

With persistent inflation, higher operational costs and the need for businesses to conserve cash to preserve operating margins, many are finding it hard to achieve a balance between optimising people spend and planning sufficiently for the future.

In response to this, many organisations are increasingly focusing on talent mobility to “build from within,” as well as taking a more strategic, data-led approach to “buying in” specific skills.

Join experts from Aon live to discuss these questions:

-           Which workforce skills do you need now and in the future?

-           What skills does your workforce currently possess and where are there gaps?

-           How do you assess against these skills as part of your selection process?


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Building a skills-based talent strategy

A study by Monster revealed that 76% of respondents consider a diverse workforce to be a crucial factor when evaluating companies and job offers. This demonstrates the pivotal role diversity and inclusion play in attracting and retaining the best talent, but despite best efforts, the persistence of unconscious bias remains a significant obstacle for many organisations impacting their overall performance.

Join our experts Clare Keniry, Board Director and Morgan Hunt, and Stephen Cuppello, Senior Manager of Psychology at Thomas on Thursday 19th October at 11.00am BST where they will discuss how to tackle unconscious bias and share strategies to foster inclusivity in recruitment.

Our experts will discuss:

•                     The different types of bias that can occur and the impact they can have

•                     The organisational benefits of a diverse workforce

•                     Strategies to improve diversity and inclusion in the recruitment process

•                     Practical tips and insights on overcoming unconscious bias.

 This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, and Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals who are looking for actionable insights to tackle unconscious bias and encourage diversity in their recruitment strategies.

Unveiling Bias: How To Implement Inclusive Hiring Practices

Anyone in HR knows that our employees’ families have come more firmly into view in the last 3 years. With the labour market still tight, employers are competing to offer packages that make life easier, whatever ‘family’ may mean for their talented workers.

Employers’ policies and benefits range far beyond help with childcare into virtual tutoring for teens and even pet-sitting and dog-walking services. It may surprise you to discover the range of sectors already putting such supports in place in order to attract talent to key roles, retain loyal staff, and empower people to attend central offices.

Join this lively conversation, as we discuss:

•             Innovative employer examples on supporting employees’ family life

•             New research showing what ‘good’ looks like on everything from new parents to ongoing family life in all its diversity. 

•             How to benchmark your practice on parental leave and other family policies and supports

Reserve your place now!

Beyond Childcare: Inclusive family support strategies

In today's rapidly changing business environment, the cornerstone of success remains steadfast: Effective leadership. However, the blueprint of what constitutes 'effective' is being redrawn. As the modern workplace becomes more technology-driven, the line between traditional leadership and data roles is blurring.

If you're an HR or L&D professional feeling uneasy about this new territory, you're not alone. Many find it challenging to understand how to integrate data skills into leadership development or manage a workforce that's increasingly tech-savvy.

Join us for an insightful session designed to empower HR and L&D professionals like you with the tools and know-how to champion data skills within your organisation's leadership framework.

In "Leading with Data," expect to learn:

 - Understand the Gap: Why most organisations are behind the curve in developing a robust data skills strategy—and how you can be the one to change that.
 - Data-Driven Leadership Demystified: What it truly means to be a data-driven leader.
 - A Ready-to-Use Framework: Get hands-on with a practical model for assessing and enhancing your organisation's data and tech capabilities, tailored for HR and L&D professionals.
 
Join us on 5th October to unleash the full potential of data-driven leadership in your workplace.

Leading with Data: HR in a Tech-Centric World

In recent years, the United Kingdom has experienced a significant increase in sickness absence rates, affecting both individuals and businesses.

In this video, we will delve into the reasons behind this rise and its impact on various demographic groups.

Including: Variation of sickness absence rates in different job types, absence patterns in different regions & countries, presenteeism and how the pandemic has affected leave of absence rates.

Why are workplace absences on the rise?

Human Resources

absence

Flexible Work

Employee Advocacy

Talent Management

Company Culture

Management

Many elements come into play when attracting the right talent. Is your careers page up-to-date? Does your website accurately represent your company culture and communicate it clearly to recruited applicants? In terms of internal processes, do you have an ongoing talent acquisition strategy? How efficient are your application screening and onboarding processes? Where and how are you looking for top candidates and are you enabling them to find you? Discover best practices and learn from industry thought leaders by joining the recruiting community.

Recruiting

Happy employees make productive employees. HR managers are now finding that compensation and benefits alone cannot keep employees happy; they also need nurturing through proper training and development. Join the BrightTALK talent management community to learn how to engage and retain your best talent by providing them with the tools and rewards they need to enhance their performance and reach their potential.

Small businesses and enterprises alike are competing for not only market share, but also for the best employees to move their businesses forward. Competitive salary and benefits packages are the foundation of high employee satisfaction. Join this community to keep up with changing regulations and learn how to optimize workforce costs with competitive yet cost-effective employee benefits and compensation plans.

Benefits and Compensation

Modern human resources professionals are charged with not only the recruitment of talent, but also retention, satisfaction and management. They also support the training, assessment and compensation aspects of employee management. Join this community to connect with thought leaders and learn about trends in benefits, compensation and talent management. Stay ahead of the curve to attract and retain top talent and strengthen organizational leadership and culture.

HR Strategy

Human resources is intrinsically linked to business success and requires a thoughtful balance of a variety of complex issues. The human resources community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of professionals in human resources exchanging human resources best practices and advice. Watch hundreds of on-demand webinars for immediate information or participate in upcoming live webinars and have your questions answered by respected HR thought leaders.

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