Work/life balance

Being a CEO is a demanding role that often consumes the majority of your time and energy.

How can a leader keep employees motivated as they aim for a moving target? How can a company maintain its identity as it undergoes significant internal changes? How do you reimagine the way the business works, while preserving the spark…

It is not just the number of working hours and the scale of the problems that is exhausting leaders and upending any sense of work/life balance. It is the volume of change and uncertainty that they are processing. The human brain isn’t a…

KellyOCG President Tammy Browning explores key findings from their 2022 Global Workforce Report – Re:work – and reveals why a robust, contingent workforce strategy is increasingly crucial to business success.  KellyOCG’s recent Global…

In the UK, 70 companies are giving their 3,300 employees a three-day weekend from Monday. Though the employees won’t see any reduction in pay,  they are expected to maintain their typical levels of productivity.   The trial has been…

According to recruitment firm Hays, over half of employees (53%)  would consider moving to a different company if a four-day working week was being offered. Hays said the study of over 9,600 employees also revealed that two in five…

And it is the tech giants - the pioneers of ‘playpen’ office environments and creative interiors – that are struggling to keep pace. New research by NearForm has found that a staggering 81% of tech professionals working for enterprise…

Over 3,000 employees at 60 UK companies will trial a four-day working week, in what is considered to be the largest pilot scheme of its kind. The scheme will run from June to December and will involve employees from a diverse range of…

According to a recent Deloitte survey, Gen Z employees consider themselves the hardest-working generation in decades, while also demanding more flexibility. Perhaps understandably, some two-thirds also reported that money worries kept them…

There were many challenges in 2021 - the obvious two being Covid-19 uncertainty and Brexit. Even though these have, and continue to be challenging, at Sherpa we were able to re-evaluate the kind of business we want to be. It was important…

Shifting careers in the middle of the pandemic may seem daunting, but many people are making the move, and a significant number have actually done it successfully. Whether you are actively looking to reenter the job market or contemplating…

Alister Esam, innovator, investor and CEO, explains how he was able to transform both his old company and his life through developing and applying processes. As the ultimate driver of high standards, inevitably you’re drawn into…