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Stress in the workforce – employers are stuck in a “reactive cycle”

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

31 March 2025

30 March 2025

How emotional intelligence thrives through being appreciated

At organisations where workers give and receive recognition, the EQ of employees and leaders rises, with recognition helping employees to hone their EQ skills of...

30 March 2025

Loneliness and isolation – the hidden struggles of globally mobile workers

They’re the globally mobile professionals that work around the world in the offices of some of the largest companies – and around half are lonely....

29 March 2025

Revealed: The industries with the most fatal accidents

The service industries rank as the most unsafe sector, with the highest fatalities and injuries, followed by manufacturing and construction. Across all industries, workplace safety...

29 March 2025

Outdated screening processes risk hindering volunteer recruitment

With organisations increasingly struggling to recruit volunteers, modernised solutions must be used to not only speed up recruitment and aid compliance, but also reduce dropout...

28 March 2025

Spring Statement: Investment needed by employers to keep people in work

The Government’s plans for this growth include a keen focus on the welfare system. There are 2.8 million people economically inactive in the UK due...

28 March 2025

Spring statement – cuts will impact workers with health conditions and disabilities

GRiD comment on the Spring Statement: Cuts impact the most vulnerable, and workers with health conditions or disabilities need support now more than ever...

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Welfare announcements pose two key questions for employers

Employee Benefits & Reward

28 March 2025

28 March 2025

State support for those who power the economy, employees, is “inadequate”

In new research conducted by GRiD, the industry body for the group risk sector, two thirds (63%) of employers, and half (54%) of employees stated...

27 March 2025

Employers must combat negative workplace culture

With searches for ‘sexual harassment’ rising by +65% in the last month in the UK, taking total searches per week to over 6,000 (per month),...

27 March 2025

Crisis looms as mass retirement threatens £28 billion productivity loss

Frontline industries (like retail and manufacturing) are about to be gutted by a retirement exodus - leaving businesses unprepared for the generational skills vacuum ahead....

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Birmingham tops the list for ‘Burnout Symptom’ searches in the UK

Mental Health

26 March 2025

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