The Cost-of-Living Crisis – Advice for Employers
Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), hit 9.4% in the year to June – the highest level for 40 years, in the face of...
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- Jun 18, 2021
- 10 min
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS EXAMPLES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM IN THE WORKPLACE
If you’re hiring based on ‘gut feeling,’ you’re likely hiring on the basis of unconscious bias. The best way to prevent yourself from...
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acornhrservices
- Jun 5, 2021
- 7 min
Small businesses and redundancy:
Your Guide: Redundancy is the process by which an employer ‘lets someone go’ from their company because there is no longer a business...
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acornhrservices
- May 27, 2021
- 6 min
HR OUTSOURCING
An overview of HR outsourcing, its use within organisation and its alternatives Introduction Outsourcing any activity to an external...
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acornhrservices
- May 23, 2021
- 9 min
A Guide to Designing a Hybrid Workplace
A year of working from home has taught us valuable lessons. Employers have started acknowledging that work-from-home is, after all, not...
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acornhrservices
- May 13, 2021
- 6 min
Revolutionising Inclusion in the Workplace
Diversity, undoubtedly, is an all-encompassing concept. It goes way beyond gender and includes ethnicity, language, socio-economic...
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acornhrservices
- Mar 31, 2021
- 6 min
The five things you need to know about business resilience planning
Environmental stewardship and sustainability have become woven into most organisation operations to the point where sustainable...
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acornhrservices
- Mar 15, 2021
- 3 min
Say Hello to Thought Diversity: Understanding this Growing Workplace Trend
When you think of effective workplace diversity, you probably think of people of different genders, races, and cultures putting their...
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acornhrservices
- Mar 7, 2021
- 4 min
Guidance: Cyber Security for SME’s
How to Protect Against Key Threats Malware/Viruses Update your operating system, browsers and plugins Enable click-to-play plugins Remove...
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acornhrservices
- Feb 28, 2021
- 5 min
WHAT IS COMPLIANCE IN BUSINESS AND HR?
UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS CONCEPT In recent years, throughout the world we have followed the high level of...
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acornhrservices
- Feb 22, 2021
- 12 min
What is IR35 (and what does it mean for you?)
Note: Due to the challenge’s businesses are facing because of COVID-19, the government announced on 17 March that IR35 tax reforms will...
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acornhrservices
- Feb 21, 2021
- 5 min
7 top HR mistakes companies make
It’s easy to ignore the human resources side of your business when things are flowing smoothly. After all, there are far more pressing...
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acornhrservices
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
Is Your HR Function Compliant?
What is HR compliance? The definition of compliance is the “act of adhering to a particular law or rule or acting according to an...
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acornhrservices
- Feb 7, 2021
- 4 min
Six HR strategies for improving employee engagement
Disengagement can cause real damage to an organisation’s productivity and profitability – giving HR teams an opportunity to spark...
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acornhrservices
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Varying Employees Contracts of Employment
Today we are exploring some of the challenges that you may be faced with when considering changing an employees existing terms and...
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