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Promoting health & wellbeing at work

Healthy employees are absent less, and they’re in better shape to do their jobs well. The CIPD has defined wellbeing as “a state of contentment which…

Articles | Wednesday, Jun 29, 2016

Wellbeing in workplace design: Thinking Space

That’s why modern businesses are increasingly focussed on creating office environments that foster greater psychological wellbeing, physical health an…

Blog | Monday, Mar 14, 2016

Wellbeing in workplace design: Creating Cloud9

This was the question we asked ourselves prior to the development of our ‘Cloud 9’ headquarters in the Peninsula Building, Manchester. Following on fr…

Blog | Friday, Apr 15, 2016

6 easy ways to boost employee wellbeing in your workplace

One in four of us will be affected by mental health at some point in our lives, so we all need to do what we can to help each other through the tough…

Blog | Thursday, Oct 10, 2019

Wellbeing in the workplace: putting Cloud9 to work

We were determined not to see our office as an amortized asset but something that would work hard for us over time. It was never just about using the…

Blog | Friday, May 20, 2016

Working with The Health Insurance Group

At BrightHR we understand the importance of people to a business, as without the hard work and dedication of your employees your business can only go…

Blog | Monday, Oct 16, 2017

Introducing BrightHealth: Your new and improved EAP

You know BrightEAP? The employee assistance programme that supports your staff in times of trouble? Well, we’ve given it a makeover. We’ve renamed it…

Blog | Monday, Feb 11, 2019

How to tell if your employees are close to burnout

Are your employees stressed out? Well, they’re not alone… Because 595,000 UK workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety last ye…

Blog | Thursday, Jun 20, 2019

Health

The quality of their physical health and psychological wellbeing is key to a happy, high performing workforce. Not only that, poor health can have a h…

Articles | Monday, Dec 14, 2015

Employee assistance programmes

Modern businesses often look to support their workforce with confidential advice and counselling services. With an EAP system, the aim is to help a s…

Articles | Wednesday, Jun 26, 2019

Stressing Enough: How to keep pressure positive

And when you consider the impact on individual mental health and team performance when those stressed out people actually turned up for work, the true…

Blog | Wednesday, Jul 13, 2016

Getting the best from human and software systems

Technology is transforming the way we all live and work. And as businesses of all kinds become more tech-enabled, managers are looking to software to…

Blog | Monday, Jun 19, 2017

How your business can prevent and manage short term staff absence

Everyone gets ill from time to time. But whilst it may seem like a minor inconvenience, according to the CIPD the average UK employee takes 6.3 days s…

Blog | Monday, Feb 20, 2017

Workplace trends to look out for in 2017

For many, 2016 wasn't the greatest of years. What with the turbulence of the Brexit vote, Donald Trump becoming the US President, and a host of famous…

Blog | Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016

Hazards

Within most small to medium-sized businesses, the responsibility of health & safety management is usually coordinated in-house and this might be b…

Articles | Monday, Dec 14, 2015

Managing employee healthcare

It makes sense when you think about it: healthy employees are absent less often, they’re likely to perform better, and an effective healthcare program…

Articles | Wednesday, Jun 29, 2016

5 ways to increase motivation in the workplace in January

Start to get excited about the year ahead For Managers January can be an exciting time as you start to implement plans for the year ahead, or start yo…

Blog | Monday, Jan 4, 2016

How to change the dull and boring workplace

When people think about the typical office the old stereotype usually comes out...Boring beige walls, old 1980’s carpets, and confined cubicles. But i…

Blog | Tuesday, Apr 25, 2017

World Menopause Day 2019: How to support women in the workplace

You probably don’t hear the word ‘menopause’ much. The conversation is pretty open when it comes to feminism and gender equality, but the world’s stil…

Blog | Wednesday, Oct 16, 2019

4 reasons why you should talk to your staff in the lift

Never heard of ‘talk in an elevator day’? We hadn’t either until a few years ago. But that’s always how it starts. You roll your eyes at the thought o…

Blog | Wednesday, Jul 18, 2018

How important is sleep for your workforce?

It’s easy to spot an employee that’s had a night of broken sleep. They struggle to keep their eyes open and knock back espresso shots all day. And th…

Blog | Thursday, Mar 14, 2019

Absence management policy

Bad news: sometimes your staff are going to be off sick. But fear not! At the end of this guide, you'll know all you need to know about creating an ab…

Articles | Wednesday, Jul 4, 2018

Leave and absence

The unpredictability of staff absence can make it a challenging HR task—and a costly one. The average UK worker is absent almost seven days annually,…

Articles | Monday, Aug 15, 2016

Long term sickness

The first step is to establish a clear and precise criteria for long term sickness — which isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. The definition of lo…

Articles | Monday, Dec 14, 2015

Time off work for stress

Most of us deal with stress on a daily basis, often in the workplace. But for some—over a long period of time—it can become overwhelming. Eventually,…

Articles | Thursday, Apr 25, 2019

Occupational stress

Aside from being very unpleasant, it can cause knock-on effects within your business which include: absenteeism and increased sick leave negative imp…

Articles | Monday, Dec 14, 2015

North West businesses most likely to attract talent and business

Business owners in the North West are leading the charge in creating fun workplace cultures to attract and retain the best talent and increase product…

Blog | Thursday, Sep 29, 2016

Is Being At Work Making Me Unfit?

Remember when a day at the office meant a heavy dose of manual labor with a large portion of blood, sweat, tears and even sometimes death? Nope, neith…

Blog | Wednesday, Nov 11, 2015

Eap benefits

An EAP programme offers support to staff struggling with personal or work-related problems. Previously, we looked at employee assistance programmes i…

Articles | Thursday, Oct 10, 2019

What is employee relations

Employee relations focuses on the rapport that you have with your employees. The better this rapport is, the more likely that your employees will reac…

Articles | Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018

How to make flexible working a reality

The term flexible working has become more prevalent over the last few years, and the idea that you can work at any time, from anywhere has started to…

Blog | Wednesday, Mar 22, 2017

Absenteeism

How do you define absenteeism? For us at BrightHR, absenteeism in the workplace is where an employee frequently doesn't turn up for work, to the point…

Articles | Monday, Jul 9, 2018

Presenteeism

There’s a new-fangled practice in the business world. It’s “presenteeism” and some employees, and potentially even business owners, think it’s a great…

Articles | Friday, Mar 29, 2019

Blue Monday - The most depressing day of the year (apparently)

Who likes Mondays? Not me, probably not you and certainly not the Boomtown Rats. For most people, Monday is the most depressing day of the week. The d…

Blog | Thursday, Nov 9, 2017

7 reasons your employees are taking sick days and how you can stop it

We’ve got the insight into why absences are occurring, and how to make your employees think twice about pulling that sickie. 1. They’re going for a j…

Blog | Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The issue of presenteeism

As an Absence Management Software company, we know that it is essential for companies to monitor employee attendance. Not only does it allow you to un…

Blog | Thursday, Nov 3, 2016

7 HR complaints that will leave you open-mouthed (and hoping you never get them)

We can speak from experience to show you some of the strangest complaints uttered behind the closed doors of HR. How would you deal with some of these…

Blog | Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Holiday request forms

The unpredictability of staff absences can make it a challenging HR task—and a costly one. The average UK worker is absent almost seven days annually…

Articles | Wednesday, Sep 11, 2019

Carry over unused holiday into the new year with BrightHR

You asked for it, we built it. Introducing our latest feature - Holiday carryover! This new functionality allows you to track your staffs unused annua…

Blog | Monday, Dec 18, 2017

Short term sickness - the issue of pay

It’s a fact of life that employees will fall ill from time to time. The majority of these illnesses will be short-term in nature and employers can exp…

Blog | Thursday, Nov 9, 2017

Why are we so suspicious? The truth about working from home

Flexible working has gone mainstream over the last few years and many workplaces are embracing the benefits of this approach. Whether that be flexible…

Blog | Thursday, Jul 27, 2017

Is work-life out of balance?

Clean eating and junk food, exercise and relaxation, work and life, yin and yang. They say it’s all about finding that healthy balance: too much of on…

Blog | Friday, Oct 14, 2016

7 quick and effective ways to relieve stress at work

Mental health issues such as stress and anxiety are among the main reasons for work absence.Got a weekly to-do list that seems to get longer, not shor…

Blog | Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018

How can you improve mental health in the workplace?

The issue of mental health isn’t a new one, but it’s an issue that has started to be taken more seriously over the last few decades. When you see some…

Blog | Wednesday, May 3, 2017