You might be thinking of outsourcing your HR function to a team of experts but wondering if it really is a good idea. Some business owners expect outsourced HR to be expensive and unnecessary, but in actual fact it can save you from a potential disaster, not to mention time and money. Any business o [...]
What is workplace mediation, many people ask us here at Metis HR Ltd. Mediation is defined by ACAS as “a completely voluntary and confidential form of resolving workplace disputes between people”. It involves a trained independent mediator working with people within a business or workpla [...]
Men’s Health in the Workplace isn’t just a moral issue, it’s a commercially sound issue too. One in five men die before they reach 65, so only four out of every five make it past the traditional retirement age 75% of premature deaths from heart disease are male three in four suicid [...]
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was set up to enable businesses to retain staff during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Now, as lockdown lifts slightly, many employers are asking if they can take employees off furlough. For many businesses that were either forced to close or suffered financial hardshi [...]
Many employers are wracking their brains at the moment to work out what alternatives are there to redundancies. With the current COVID pandemic and the economic crisis that it’s created there’s a need to review costs. The knee-jerk reaction is often to consider job cuts rather than consi [...]
