Parenting in an increasingly digital world brings a lot of challenges. As well as e-safety and managing screen time, once parents allow their children to use screen time, it’s a minefield trying to find apps that are suitable and engaging for children. Everyone, even children, need some downtime in life and in these brief periods use […]
Get Yourself a Life by Suzanne Clinton-Davis
How many of the following scenarios do you recognise? (All names are fictitious for the purposes of this article) Sangeet has sent in a letter stating that he is “Going off with stress.” Fiona, completely out of character, has unleashed a torrent of verbal abuse on her secretary and has walked out of the office […]
Family…..From Nucelar to Nebulous
…In our firm, we’ve been working with Employees Matter, an organisation that runs workshops, seminars and webinars to help bridge that gap between home and work lives. The service was set up by Zoe Sinclair as a consequence of her own experiences of being a first-time mum and juggling a busy work schedule with the […]
Why bringing kids into the office can work for everyone
Bringing employees’ children into work for a day is great for engagement, and helps young people understand the professional world. No wonder it’s taking off… Around a third of employees admit to not bringing their full selves to work sometimes (it’s called ‘presenteeism’ – where the body might be present, but the mind is nowhere […]
Shared Parental Leave – what does it actually mean for you?
The new offer of shared parental leave looks simple enough. New mums take the first two weeks off after the birth, but the remaining 50 weeks can be shared between mum and dad. Finally the UK has caught up with Scandinavia, where shared leave has been working well for decades. Zoe Sinclair explores what it […]
Practising ‘people shaped’ working
The introduction of shared parental leave this month is another signal of the move to more family-friendly, ‘people-shaped’ working, says Employees Matter MD Zoe Sinclair. In this article, Zoe explores whether employers are moving with the times or struggling to understand the messy interactions between home and work lives. Read the full article
What do the changes in shared parental leave mean for me?
New rules will allow parents to share maternity and paternity leave from 5 April 2015. What will this mean for your career? Zoe Sinclair explains the implications of these changes in the Guardian. Read the full article.
An invitation: A better future for workplace mental health
It’s time to make sure you save your seat at the 2015 Employees Matter Mental Health Awareness Breakfast. Join us on Thursday May 7th to discuss a better future for workplace mental health. Contact us to book your place.
Save the date: Mental Health Awareness Breakfast 2015
Following the success of the 2014 Mental Health Awareness Breakfast, we are excited to invite you to join us on May 7, 2015 for this year’s session. Contact us to receive your invite for the event. More information will be out in the coming weeks. To find out about last year’s event read the recommendations […]
Webinar: How safe is your child online?
This year’s Safer Internet Day (SID) will take place on February 10th and Employees Matter is offering a special webinar to give parents the knowledge to ensure their child is safe online. Safer Internet Day is coordinated by the UK Safer Internet Center and under this year’s theme, ‘Create a safer internet together’, hundreds of […]