by Verity Morish | Oct 25, 2021 | Employment Advice
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback”. I first heard this old Dutch saying about 5 years ago. And, of course, it is true. Trust is lost much faster than it is won. Building up trust is a bit like filling a piggy bank. You put little bits of loose...
by Verity Morish | Apr 28, 2021 | Employment Advice
The further easing of restrictions is underway bringing many furloughed workers back to work. However, it isn’t back to normal for everyone as many sectors are still trading at below normal (pre-covid) levels and with their employees remaining furloughed. The scheme,...
by Verity Morish | Mar 31, 2021 | Employment Advice
There is no denying that the past year has changed the working life for many people. Working from home has gone from the exception to the norm, with many organisations now looking to introduce hybrid office/remote working practices. I know many of those I talk to are...
by Verity Morish | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
While the furlough scheme has managed to protect over 11million jobs since the pandemic began, with 4.7 million workers on the scheme during January 2021 (1), it hasn’t been able to protect every job and many organisations have had to make the difficult decision to...
by Verity Morish | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, world of work
Until March 2019 the word furlough was an obscure, originally military term about being given a leave of absence. Now it’s joined the likes of lockdown, social distancing and the R number to, unfortunately, become part of our everyday corona vocabulary. At its peak...
by Verity Morish | Feb 3, 2021 | Technology
When logging into Google Classroom this morning, downloading my children’s schoolwork and watching them chat with their teacher and classmates, it made me think. While this is certainly challenging now, how different would it have been if COVID-19 had struck whilst I...
by Verity Morish | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog
Continuing our series of articles highlighting the positives we’ve taken from the past year our Career Concierge, Gemma Smith, shares hers. 2020 was a life-changing year for Gemma, but not for the same reason as most of us. In late March, while we were all adjusting...
by Verity Morish | Feb 28, 2020 | Announcements
I recently came back from leave to a whole raft of good news. However, the thing that really made my day was finding out we’d secured the Investors in People (IiP) Gold standard for the third time in a row. I am often asked why we take IiP so seriously. My answer is...
by Verity Morish | May 23, 2019 | Announcements
To celebrate our 25th anniversary our Chairman, Sarah Chiumento, shares the lessons she’s learnt about running a small business over the past 25 years. Chiumento was launched in 2004 so is now celebrating its silver anniversary with some lovely posh chilly...
by Verity Morish | Apr 24, 2019 | Careers Advice
The world of work and how we approach our careers has changed dramatically, especially in the last few decades years. For my parent’s generation, a job for life was still a thing and moving companies didn’t happen as regularly as it does today. I know when I entered...
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