Industry & Insights
Your unbiased lens into the talent market's evolution. Discover why shifts are occurring, their significance, and how to navigate the changing landscape of total talent.
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Five Cost-Saving Strategies for Optimising Temporary Workforce Management
With temporary workers, contractors, and freelancers now making up to 40% of the workforce in some organisations, managing this flexible talent pool effectively has become a critical skill for business leaders.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder
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Understanding Equal Pay
Equal Pay refers to the legal requirement that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work. Pay Parity extends this concept to ensure fair compensation across all demographics and worker types (including temporary workers) for comparable work.
Laura Handley
Strategic Operations Director
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Understanding Worker Classification
Worker classification refers to how a worker is categorised based on their relationship with the company. This typically involves distinguishing between employees and independent contractors, even when engaging workers through staffing agencies.
Laura Handley
Strategic Operations Director
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Understanding Tenure in Temporary Labour
Tenure in temporary labour refers to the length of time a temporary worker, contractor, or freelancer is engaged with a company, even when working through a supplier. It's not about how long they've worked for the supplier, but how long they've been assigned to your company.
Laura Handley
Strategic Operations Director
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Optimisation of your Business
While April is traditionally the cruellest month, I think we’d all agree that the first three months of the year are pretty grotty! – They’re cold, grim and resources are usually at their thinnest after the Christmas excesses.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder
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Change ourselves to save ourselves
That the climate crisis is a genuine emergency means it’s mandatory that we pitch in together, rip up the rule-book, and start sharing knowledge, experience, and ideas to spark new and disruptive innovations.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder
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Made to measure
If you’re a goal setter, you’ll know that no matter whether it’s weight loss, quitting bad habits, or just vowing to walk the dog in all weathers, the distance between ambition and achievement is almost impossible to cover if you don’t know what you need to measure.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder
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The unusual art of business change
Pablo Picasso, born in 1881, was arguably the most famous artist of modern times. A name synonymous with a rare and revolutionary genius, he was a high-spirited, gifted and difficult man who, it was rumoured, could draw before he could speak.
Laura Handley
Strategic Operations Director
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Why wellbeing is the metric that really matters
Say ‘wellness’ to somebody and they’ll probably think you’re talking about juice-mad Insta influencers or gym bunnies who live, sweat and die by the hashtag ‘livingmybestlife.’
Colin Yoshioka-Smith
Business Director
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Can inspiration unlock the desire to change?
Prosci’s ADKAR model has stood the test of time in the world of change management. But… what if we added a new element to the model? Could it unlock the desire to change?
Laura Handley
Strategic Operations Director
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Countdown to disaster
A severe cold snap had swept across Florida, and icicles covered the launch tower at Cape Canaveral.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder
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It’s a wonderful lesson
Change is inevitable. And you know what else is? That ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ the familiar and festive tale of redemption and hope which first premiered today in 1946, will be on telly this Christmas.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder