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Lesley Cooper, Founder and CEO of WorkingWell and author of Brave New Leader shares her insight into the power of truly valuing the workforce.

In this Q&A, Laura Bunn, HR Director at Roadchef explains how her company ensures employee engagement pays dividends for the business and the workforce.

Employing people is not simple. From role to role, sector to sector diverse laws, rules, regulations and guidance can apply. As employment models become more diverse the rules governing how those models should work seem to become more numerous.

Employee health and wellbeing has dominated the HR agenda in recent times. World events, economic trends, physical and mental health awareness have all conspired to bring a huge challenge to HR – how to look after a workforce under pressure and enable them to do their best work. 

The average Brit spends over two hours procrastinating at work each day, costing businesses £21 billion a year, according to a recent survey.

It’s no surprise that January is a tough time financially for many households. While the idea of ‘Blue Monday’ started as a marketing campaign, GoCompare’s research showed the average UK household expected to spend £719 on Christmas in 2019.