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How to Incorporate Slow Travel Into Your Vacations

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With international tourism expected to climb back up to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, it’s unlikely that interest in travel is going to slow down anytime soon. Backpacking can be a budget-friendly activity that allows you to slow down and take in the natural world around you.

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Is Earned Wage Access A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing?

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This service is provided internally or often by a third-party provider and functions by either integrating with the time clock the business is using or estimating the number of hours that you’d worked that week. Employees can use an EWA service to take a portion of their wages immediately, without waiting for regularly scheduled payday.

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New study reveals deteriorating employee wellbeing and eroding trust in employer efforts

Workplace Insight

This comes at a time where economic headwinds, budget cuts and remote work has created a feeling of uncertainty in the UK workforce, heightening the urgency for employers to act fast or compromise employee wellbeing. A new study from Alight reveals that 64 percent of the UK workforce would rate their overall wellbeing as low.

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Workplace wellbeing remains a neglected issue for many firms

Workplace Insight

Two in five businesses have either cut or maintained workplace wellbeing budgets despite growing pressures on their staff, according to a new report. The majority of organisations believe organisational wellbeing initiatives improve business performance, but are still not sure how to measure it, the survey also found.

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Despite low productivity, UK firms still don’t look for ways to improve on past performance

Workplace Insight

New research from the Association for Project Management (APM) claims that only 35 per cent of senior managers who participated in the survey regularly assign dedicated project managers to tasks, and only a quarter for business owners. In the manufacturing industry, the situation is strikingly inefficient.

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SMEs turn to AI and acquisitions to navigate an uncertain future

Workplace Insight

The survey found that only 8 percent of CEOs believe that a ‘soft landing’ has already occurred and just over a quarter (27 percent) anticipate that a soft landing will occur in the next 12 months. Despite the belief that revenue and headcount would increase, overall business confidence has declined to 94.7

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They’re Back: Boomerang Employees on the Rise for Good or Bad

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Stripling worked at 84.51° as an intern and then as a lead data scientist for about five years. In a 2022 survey by payroll firm UKG, “Four out of 10 people (43%) who quit their jobs during the pandemic now admit they were actually better off at their old job.” He left the company in 2018, then returned in 2022. “I

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