24 March 2025

Why employees quit their jobs

If you were to leave or quit your job tomorrow, what would your main reason(s) be? Better pay... Workload or stress... To develop or pursue your career... For some their answer is "I wouldn't". We share some more findings from the UK Workplace Study.
11 February 2025

What has most impact on Employee Engagement?

If you could focus just one thing to improve employee engagement in your organisation, what should the focus be? While all the drivers that contribute to good employee experience are inter-related, we can explore which components have a greater positive impact. We can use the findings to help inform plans […]
16 December 2024

Work is a bit sh*t isn’t it?

It might seem that way right now, but take a step back and see how far we’ve come. Twelve years ago, we ran our first UK Workplace Study. We ran the study again the following year and for a third time in 2015, and largely the results were disappointing. The […]
16 October 2024

Challenging Assumptions with Employee Surveys

One of our clients feared losing staff to Lidl because the supermarket chain offered slightly higher pay. Could the employee survey find out what was really going on? What we discovered was a relief! Yes, pay mattered, but it wasn’t in the top reasons why people would leave. Far more […]
27 August 2024

Did the lockdowns change work for the better?

I’ve been exploring this in our UK workplace study and through client feedback, and there’s still quite a heated debate going on about working from home … While some leaders regard the pre-pandemic “normal”, as a time when everything worked just fine, there’s probably another issue at play – trust. […]
9 July 2024

What’s it really like to work ‘here’? Part 2

(Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash) I love my work. Hmmmn, ok maybe not always. I should qualify – sometimes, I love my work. One of the activities that count towards enjoying my work is getting to work with different clients and figuring out what’s going on there. It is […]