In this article, we look at the concept of limited employee availability. Of course, we all instinctively know that times occur when we might well have some free time to work remotely on a project or times when we are mostly unavailable but might be able to contribute with an opinion or a small task…
Time Off In Lieu, otherwise known as TOIL, is an arrangement where an employer compensates employees who work more than their contracted hours by offering them time off rather than paying overtime. Employees agree to the terms of TOIL with their employer, for instance, by agreeing to take TOIL only during slack periods. Here we…
Stress – it’s a killer – and none of us is immune to it. And few times have been more stressful than the last year or so. Even in normal times, we lose 17.9 million working days to work-related stress, depression and anxiety, which equates to 55 per cent of all working days lost to…
Have you ever woken up on a Monday morning feeling under the weather and thought about taking the day off? No doubt a few of us felt that way on the Monday following England’s loss in the Euro finals, though many schools and workplaces turned a blind eye to workers who turned up a little…
LeaveWizard is great for tracking holidays and absences – but it can also track working from home, offsite working, and other events. Changing ways of working One effect of the global coronavirus pandemic has been to force the closure of offices and workspaces in many countries. For many firms, this resulted in a rapid shift…
