How to improve workplace communication Businesses these days are very good at working to improve workplace communicating. This is clear in their customers or prospective customers. This can be inhanced with the use of social media. We think this can be a great way to...
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Employee rights in winter: Is Your Business Ready for Winter?
With winter just around the corner, you may want to think about how this can affect your business. This can be a good time to consider employee rights in winter to ensure the colder months run smoothly. Adverse Weather and Employee Rights in Winter Adverse weather...
How to Attract and Retain Staff
How to retain staff - What do your employees want? It’s getting harder to attract quality candidates to come and work for you. In addition, finding the right staff is a phrase we hear often from our clients. We though this would be a perfect opportunity to give you...
What is GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will Begin On 25 May 2018 in the UK. ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in...
Holiday Planning
How to manage staff holidays? Things seem to go to bad to worse for Ryanair following the way they’ve not managed holiday entitlement. As you will know, they have had to cancel thousands of flights, and their reputation has been severely damaged with threats of legal...
Six Ways to Improve Employees Performance
We are passionate about employee engagement here at The HR Booth as this will lead to improved business performance in your organisation. This improved performance can lead to increased profitability, productivity, employee retention, customer metrics, and safety...
Managing Mental Health In the Workplace
Foster mental wellness to boost productivity and loyalty. Support individuals with flexibility, remote work options, and phased returns. Encourage open dialogue, self-awareness, and coaching. Create an environment where your team can thrive and excel.
Giving Staff The Tools To Do Their Jobs
Using the right tools for the job I’m really fortunate that I get to work with dozens of businesses and have lots of variety in my role. As I’m working on site with so many clients each week, I'm in and out of their businesses. I pick up on a lot of things that go on,...
Now That Employment Tribunal Fees Are Abolished, What Does This Mean For Employers?
We’ve seen an increase in enquiries since Employment Tribunal fees were abolished last month, so I wanted to share my thoughts on this and what it means for you as employers. Unison, the Trade Union, had been campaigning for some time to have Employment Tribunal fees...
Meet The HR Booth Team
The HR booth is a HR consultant company driven by a team with experience in various HR roles – including HR managers, HR advisors, HR consultants, and specialist roles – across a number of challenging industries.We expanded our team even more over the last 2 years to...
Employment Tribunal Fees Regime is Unlawful
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that Employment Tribunal fees regime is unlawful. If you’re a fair employer and have adequate HR and employment procedures in place, then you will have little to worry about. I’ve read lots of scare blogs and stories over the last...
Benefits of Retainer-Based HR Services
HR Retainer services offer many benefits. However, we understand many people have reservations when it comes to this type of agreement. When most organisations hear the words “retainer agreement,” they run the other direction. After all, most of these agreements are...