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The Human Age Edition 14: The Future Forces of Work
3 months ago by Daniel Stack
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed a dynamic shift in the economic landscape, from a post-pandemic boom, to talks of a recession, to a gradual reduction in demand. However, amidst these fluctuations, one constant remains: strong hiring intentions.Yet, a stark disparity persists between workers’ desires and employers’ offerings, coupled with ongoing talent shortages at a nea...
Podcast: Navigating the challenges of children’s services recruitment in the UK
3 months ago by Daniel Stack
This episode is specifically centred around the Children’s Services Omnibus Wave 6 Research Report, which was released by the Education Department in December 2022. This report discusses key issues pertinent to children's social care, early years and childcare provision, and services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The C...
Podcast: Mental health matters - Understanding and supporting those in need
7 months ago by Daniel Stack
Globally, there is an estimated 450 million people suffering from mental health disorders. According to Mental Health Foundation UK, approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. This means that an estimated 16.5 million people in the UK suffer from mental health disorders in any given year.Here in the UK, addressing this issu...
Need to hire the best talent for the Health & Social Care sector? Brook Street is here to help you...
8 months ago by Daniel Stack
The Health and Social Care Sector is an area in which the staff hired greatly impacts the health and well-being of others. It’s imperative that organisations find the right candidates with the balance of skills, attitude, and behaviour for the role, as well as operate the right recruitment strategy and working environment to ensure they can secure and retain the best talent...
Podcast: Creating a diverse and inclusive workforce
12 months ago by Daniel Stack
It is said that DE&I helps to attract higher quality talent who care about the company’s culture and are looking to invest in themselves, resulting in a stronger workforce and better business outcomes. With the talent shortage at a 16-year high, this is the time to invest in DE&I strategies and not so much as a nice to have.In this podcast, we will look at ways in which org...
Podcast: Preventing burnout and boosting mental fitness
about 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
The pandemic has put mental health high on public and corporate agendas and workers now expect employers to support their mental well-being and provide opportunities to build mental fitness. The focus is on prevention versus cure. In this podcast, we will communicate the important strategies on how employers can positively take time to understand workers’ needs and experime...
WEBINAR – The Great Realisation: Companies Reset – from reactive to proactive
over 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
Companies are becoming increasingly sophisticated, transforming and seeking nimbler operating models, more resilient supply chains, greener and more consolidated partners and solutions in response to heated competition, unpredictability and greater transparency. Join our panel of experts as they discuss proactive strategic workforce management solution trends, from The Gr...
WEBINAR – The Great Realisation: Tech Accelerates – from digitisation to digital adoption
over 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
Investment in digitisation has accelerated as a result of the pandemic, and consumers and employees alike expect it to make the way they live and work easier. There is new urgency for organisations to upskill their people so they can translate data into insights, make data-driven decisions and combine the best of human and machine learning for new value creation. In thi...
WEBINAR: World Down Syndrome Day: Supporting People with Down Syndrome into the Workplace
over 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
Despite many sectors in the UK experiencing a skills shortage and struggling to fill vacancies, people with disabilities are often overlooked for opportunities and are twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people. Through Workfit, the Down Syndrome Association’s employment programme, job-seekers who have Down syndrome are now in jobs they want and enjoy. The ...
WEBINAR: The Great Realistion, Talent Scarcity – from pledges to progress
over 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
Shifting demographics including shrinking birth rates, reduced mobility across borders and the rise in early retirees means talent is scarce. 69% of employers cannot find the skills that they need. Now is the time for businesses to get even more creative – attracting, upskilling, reskilling and retaining valued workers. Whoever holds the talent holds the future. In this...
What Women Want (At Work) - From Shecession to Shesurgence
over 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
To #BreakTheBias ManpowerGroup is calling for more companies to respond to What Women Want at Work. With women leaving the workforce at alarming rates, there’s an urgent need for employers to better understand what women want at work to thrive. To find out, we asked 5,000 workers across five countries. Their answers show that autonomy, career progression and feeling motiv...
#BreakTheBias Gender Equity At Work
over 1 year ago by Daniel Stack
New research from ManpowerGroup reveals that while 86% of companies are measuring gender parity, most are looking purely at pay equity (often driven by regulation), with far fewer measuring the number of women in traditionally male dominated roles and the number of women in senior leadership positions. That’s despite the case being clear: organisations with more women in ...
The Human Age Edition 12: The Great Jobs Reset
over 2 years ago by Daniel Stack
Despite the impact of the pandemic on unemployment, the labour market has roared back to life, and there are already signs of the sector tightening as in the start of 2020. Organisations have increasingly specific skills’ needs as transformation accelerates, and challenges that existed pre-2020 still remain as competition returns and demand for workers outstrips supply. O...
Social care in a time of change
over 3 years ago by
During the second quarter of 2020 the critical role the care sector plays in the wider health and social care landscape has become apparent to all. Today it sits – quite rightly – alongside the health sector as an integral part in society. Yet the sector faces significant pressures: vacancies are running at 8% (or around 122,000) a year; one in four care workers may be lo...
Immigration and social care
over 3 years ago by
The shortage of workers in the care sector are well-documented with a vacancy rate of over eight percent or over 120,000 positions at any one time. We also know that many roles are filled by non-UK nationals – around eight percent are EU nationals and a further nine percent are non-British. In normal times the sector has just about coped – but in this COVID-19 period where t...
The Importance of Social Care during the COVID-19 Crisis
over 3 years ago by
Comment by Sarah Munday, operations director, Brook Street: There is much focus on the social care sector and its vital role in delivering support during the COVID-19 crisis. Carers on the frontline see its importance first-hand. It is positive that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commended care workers across the country for the crucial service t...
How Leaders Can Foster Innovation in Times of Crisis
over 3 years ago by
In times of uncertainty, the importance of strong leadership increases. Team leaders set the tone for how an organisation responds to change, as well as keeping the team morale up. Businesses need to be guided with a steady and reassuring hand, and at the same time be able to pivot and respond with agility when the situation demands it. Grit, persistence and collectiveness...
Are You Prepared for Cybersecurity Threats to Your Remote Workforce?
over 3 years ago by
The massive shift to work-from-home models over the past weeks has made people and businesses especially vulnerable to cyber threats. The total number of areas that present risk for an organisation (also known as its attack surface) just expanded by an unprecedented scale. Devices, networks, passwords and data – they’re more exposed now than ever before. It’s easy enough ...
Adaptable workforce continuity strategies for uncertain times
over 3 years ago by
This month many companies find themselves in a previously unimaginable situation. Between new remote working protocols, updated onboarding procedures and increasing HR requirements, workforce demands are changing at a rapid pace.As we work together to navigate the many challenges that COVID-19 creates, ManpowerGroup is committed to providing our clients with evolving Workfor...
Keeping up with the millennials - are millennials joining your workforce?
over 4 years ago by
With millennials becoming the biggest generation entering the workforce, it would be wise to assume that if they haven't already, millennials will be coming to your business soon. As with all businesses, attraction and retention are two of the main focuses when thinking about hiring millennials. By gaining knowledge and insight into millennials you could put measures in plac...