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what features make an HR platform stand out to employees looking to support remote work

What features make an HR platform stand out for employees looking to support remote working?

By Employee Management, Natural HR, Optimizing, Software

As the continued impacts of COVID-19 are felt across businesses, HR leaders are facing a need to rethink the nearly 15 million-strong workforce that moved to a new remote working model. This includes reconsidering employee planning, management, performance and experience strategies through their HR platforms for the continued future of how people work in the UK. At this point, it’s worth reviewing your HR system to make sure that you can support dispersed teams while keeping productivity and motivation levels high throughout your company. The post-pandemic lockdown world has created a massive shift to large scale remote work, whether businesses…

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Webinar Review: Why is Emotional Intelligence critical to the success of HR?

Webinar Review: Why is Emotional Intelligence critical to the success of HR?

By Events, Natural HR

This blog post highlights the September 2021 Natural HR ‘Expert Webinar’ series and only highlights the contents covered in the webinar. However, in our webinar library, we offer the entire webinar, as well as a library of other HR Expert webinars, for free. Nikki Hill, an Executive Coach and Talent Consultant, took the lead for September’s Natural HR, HR Expert webinar series, which focused on why emotional intelligence is critical to the success of HR teams in the workplace. With over a decade of in-house HR and talent experience with companies in organisations ranging from luxury fashion to food, retail,…

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managing a bad work ethic

How should you manage somebody within your workplace if they have a terrible work ethic?

By Employee Engagement, Employee Management, Management, Motivation, Natural HR

The elevator-pitch description of ethics in the workplace can refer to the way employees govern themselves and their work attitude, but it can also refer to the morality or lack thereof surrounding a workplace and can broadly be encompassed within the workplace culture of your business. Even in 2020, it doesn’t matter whether you work from home or commute to work every day or employ a hybrid working model; a positive work ethic is required to build a successful career for your staff as well as producing a positive workplace culture within your business For HR teams, dealing with poor…

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international week of happiness

International Week of Happiness at Work 2021: 10 things you can do in your office

By Leadership, Management, Motivation, Natural HR, News

Today, September 23rd, marks the start of the International Week of Happiness at work. Here at Natural HR, we know that employee happiness and well-being are integral to any business’s success. It may seem like employee happiness is something that benefits only the employees. However, many companies can benefit greatly from having happy employees. The range of benefits ranging from reduced turnover to increased productivity. In this article, we’re going to look at some ideas of how you can boost employees’ happiness in your business – from offering tips on everything from how to create a welcoming and creative work…

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preventing payroll fraud

The 3 most common types of Employee Payroll Fraud: How can you prevent them?

By Finance, Natural HR, News, Payroll

Employee payroll fraud is one of the most common types of workplace fraud you can encounter and will generally be committed by an employee attempting to receive any money they are not entitled to. If you were looking to define it, you would say that it’s the theft of funds from a business via its payroll processing system. In 2021 any type of fraud – but especially payroll fraud – can be costly to your business, with payroll fraud costing UK companies around £12 billion per year! This article will answer two questions. Firstly, what are the three most common…

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