Employee Experience

Fancy improved productivity from your local council – including customer calls being answered more quickly, faster planning decisions and lower turnover in the refuse collection department? Time to move council employees to a four-day week. That’s according to a recent trial by South Cambridgeshire district council which showed productivity…

According to a recent study by the Fawcett Society, the UK’s leading charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights, 1 in 10 mothers with under-fours quit their jobs due to childcare pressures. This certainly rang true in my experience. Having three young children and a husband who works…

It’s Monday. It’s 11:44am. And something funny is going on with the world’s algorithm today because I keep seeing and hearing the same message… “Less than 30% of the world’s population is engaged at work.” It’s not a particularly new stat. In fact, it first surfaced back in 2009!…

Short answer. Yes. And we’ve got five top tips to help. Whether you like it or not, 2024 is a big year for elections. Over 64 countries will head to the polls – 49% of the global population can vote on a new leader. It’s likely your workforce will…

What is hard won, easily broken, and almost impossible to work without? The answer is: Trust. Harvard Business Review found that employees in high-trust organisations are more productive, have more energy at work, collaborate better with their colleagues, and stay with their employers longer than people working at low-trust…

My daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in November 2020. She was 9 years old. She’d lost a lot of weight, was drinking a huge volume of water, complained of a tummy ache, was very tired, lacked her usual energy and just before her diagnosis she started to…

At Home, our vision is to make every employee experience a great one. But, unfortunately, sometimes the feeling we experience before work, especially on a Sunday evening, can be the total opposite. We’ve all had them at one time or another – those pit of your stomach work dreads…

This thing called work is where we’ll spend, on average, around 90,000 hours of our life. That’s a whole lotta time. So, don’t we deserve to feel good while we’re doing it? It’s a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it anyway. Yes. Yes, we do. We all…

The Creative Reality Check of The Work Project Landing on a visual identity is never an easy task. Design can be very personal and subjective. When we started The Work Project, there was excitement and optimism that the research and visual identity would be something we’d be proud of….

Coming to work enhances my day I am releasing this blog with some trepidation. I’m conscious that it reads like a rather crude piece of PR about life at Home, an over-the-top ‘we live and breathe what we do’ style account. But this is genuinely my reality. I love…

I recently had the absolute privilege of joining 100 women – and about three men – at Careering into Motherhood live. Bringing together a community of individuals and employers working towards a world where motherhood and ambition can happily co-exist. We shared stories, insights, and advice with a view…

In 2021, 149.3 million working days were lost due to sickness in the UK. As an employer it would be easy to look at the financial impact this has on your business, let it dictate what you offer your employees and even how you treat them while they’re off…

Now is it just us, or is it particularly noisy out there right now? We have the horrifying war in Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis – not to mention climate change. At work, we’re grappling with post-pandemic pivots, the great resignation and the realities of hybrid working. And at…

Values shape culture. They verbalise “the way we do things around ‘ere”, guiding our actions and behaviours, empowering us to create the future we want to experience. But the future we want to experience may look very different now, to what it did pre-2020. With flexible working, a wider…

A 30-year high in inflation is driving up the price of our everyday expenses. Food, clothing, petrol – yep, it’s all going up. And with our energy bills seemingly doubling overnight and possible tax increases on the horizon, there’s no respite expected just yet. It’s clear that the cost-of-living crisis is…

Creativity isn’t just for designers. Turns out we can all live creatively, every day. It’s no secret that us Homies enjoy living creative lives. Home is famed for creative thinking – and a belief in the power of creativity. In fact, we’re often finding opportunities to infuse our creativity…

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #ChooseToChallenge. You could say that’s been Home’s mantra all along… In this blog Liz Clover, Co-Managing Director gives an insight into life at Home, and how even after 40 years we’re still challenging our industry. “It’s Home’s 40th birthday this year. That’s…

Creating a joyful experience for remote employees Christmas is a little different this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find new ways to spread some festive joy. When social distancing got in the way of the normal Christmas party, Aztec Group asked for some help to design a…

Ready or not, Boris thinks it’s time to return to the office post-COVID19. At the start of the pandemic the advice was clear: stay home. Workers hurriedly grabbed their laptops and chargers – the lucky ones also took their screens – and set up ‘shop’ at home. All of…