Ellie Francis

#TheReset – It’s an Employers Market… Is it not?

Ellie Francis on September 15, 2020, 12:15 pm

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In the wake of Coronavirus, business owners are looking for silver linings in the rubble around them. A key shift would seem to be in the employment market where, for some time now, employees have ruled the roost. At the beginning of the year, companies scrambled to impress current and prospective talent, trying to convince them of the ‘why us’ component of their employment offer. They invested in Employer Branding and Employee Experience as a priority for their budget and …

#TheReset: Slashing The Presenteeism Umbilical Cord…

Ellie Francis on August 28, 2020, 8:20 am

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Recent months have seen a significant change in the way we work. On Friday 13th March 2020, Northern Ireland’s workforce made their usual commute home from the office, and the majority of them haven’t returned since. While a number of our local employers embraced working from home as an option for their team prior to lockdown, few of them had engaged in a remote-working-only strategy rendering their office lease and funky fit-out somewhat redundant. While the early days of moving …

Northern Ireland and The Skills Gap Carousel…

Ellie Francis on June 18, 2020, 10:22 am

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As we begin to emerge from the clutches of the Covid 19 Pandemic, the business community in Northern Ireland face a plethora of challenges if they want to remain above water, let alone experience growth. Not least of which is the imminent recession predicted to be the sharpest economic downturn on record. However the talent shortage faced by many of our most prominent industries, such as ICT, agri-food and digital media, continues to glare at employers as it did before …