In the second of a two-part HR on the Offensive podcast with our partners Norton Rose Fulbright (you can read part one here), we discussed the issues of furlough and redundancy for HR teams and the businesses they operate within. Once again Cathy and Chris from LACE...
What legal considerations do you need to make when bringing back furloughed workers? How much notice do you need to give to inform a furloughed worker of a return date? What can those workers do when on leave and what are the logistics of part-time working? What about...
How do you adapt the workplace to meet your colleagues' needs in this current climate? Do you have a hybrid wellbeing offering? How do you make home-based workers feel fully included in wellbeing programmes? What are your plans for holiday rollover and how do you deal...
How much of what the government has set out for returning to work are 'rules' and how much are 'guidelines' for HR teams and employers to deliver on? What happens to those people with childcare arrangements that are concerned with going back to work? ...
Master of the Guild Paul Hucknall talks to Chris Howard and Annette Andrews about how his business - Quilter - has adapted quickly to moving from an office-based environment to a remote workplace, touching on policies, support, but also how their leaders have adapted...
What will the office of the future look like when everybody returns back to work? Will there be creative and news ways of utilising space? Will businesses need as much space? How can you social distance in a lift designed to get 20 people in it and up to the 20th...
In the second episode of the 'In the Spotlight' series from the Guild of HR Professionals, Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, talks about how HR needs to position the 'human' at the centre of the business after the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to subside. HR needs to come...
Step 10 of the LACE Partners 12-point crisis management plan for HR teams looks at what HR leaders need to be thinking of when thinking of the 'return to work' plan under the current coronavirus global pandemic. LACErs Chris Howard and Cathy Acratopulo talk through...
This first episode of 'In the Spotlight' series featured Danny Harmer, Chief People Officer from Aviva, talking about her experiences during the COVID lockdown of 2020, having joined Aviva during the pandemic. ...
What are the common challenges that leadership teams are facing and what coaching support do they need? Do HR Directors need to focus more on themselves in getting coaching support? Jessica Raby from Jess Raby Associates talks to Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners....
You may not have the time right now to get some headspace to be looking at what lessons could have been learned by your business, but when you do, it will be important for HR to be the facilitators of conducting this process. Look at the data, the evidence, what the...
How can you maintain the wellbeing of your workforce with so many working remotely? What is the key to an effective wellbeing strategy? Celine Haffner and Emma Leonis give some insight in the seventh of our 12-point plan for crisis management, designed to help HR...
On 21st April we ran a webinar called Creating the ‘new normal’. During the webinar we asked the senior HR professionals who attended – over 80 that took part – whether they had a transition plan in place to rebuild their workforce as the recovery gets underway. 89%...
In the latest LACE Partners video Rachel Mawson and Celine Haffner talk about step five in our 12-point crisis management plan for HR teams. This step involves new policies - do you have new HR policies in place to deal with issues such as remote working, etc, in the...
Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo provide a quick overview of step four in a 12-step crisis management plan for HR teams during the current Covid-19 crisis. In this video they talk recovery planning and ask you the question: "do you have your modelling in place for...