Building an Inclusive Workplace with ClearTalents: August Edition
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Our mission is to empower every individual with the tools and accommodations they need to unlock their full potential within the workplace.
We are committed to nurturing an environment where each employee can thrive unencumbered by any hindrances.
Latest Workplace Adjustment Top Tips
Regular breaks are essential for employee well-being. Managing a diverse workforce effectively means ensuring all employees take them. Everyone benefits from a break, including those who may feel stressed, have mental health issues, or neurodiverse needs.
The Pomodoro Technique is a simple time management system that breaks your employees’ days into 25-minute chunks separated by 5-minute breaks (Pomodoro’s.)
After you’ve repeated this four times, you take a break of about 15-25 minutes. The technique will help improve your time efficiency, manage distractions, improve planning, decrease fatigue and muscle pain, and maintain motivation!
In a recent report by Headspace (sixth annual state of mind report) revealed that 86% of workers have experienced moderate, high or extreme stress in the past year.
A healthy workplace mental health is essential for an individual’s overall health and mental wellbeing. By supporting employers mental health, organisations can expect:
- Heightened productivity and efficiency
- Improved retention
- Decrease in staff absences
So, what can organisations do to start supporting employees mental health? Employers can offer reasonable adjustments to suit every individuals needs, however, many of these adjustments are FREE and easy to make.
Here are our top 3 examples:
? Allow flexible start/finish times
? Changes to work environment (work from home days, providing ‘quiet’ areas in office spaces)
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? Reviewing workloads
In the News
Hairdresser with ADHD fired for loss of clients and poor timekeeping wins ￡10k at tribunal:
A hairdresser with ADHD has been awarded more than ￡10,000 by a Glasgow employment tribunal for unfair dismissal after being let go by letter at the end of a shift for misconduct issues, despite her employer originally framing the sacking as a redundancy.
What are Reasonable Adjustments?
Reasonable adjustments are at the heart of everything that ClearTalents does. In these FAQs, we explore the reasons for making reasonable adjustments, give some examples of reasonable adjustments and explain how employers can implement them to create a more inclusive workplace for everyone.
5 Common Questions About Workplace Adjustments
Sickness absence continues to be a significant challenge for UK businesses, costing billions of pounds annually. Yet many are unaware of the fact that mental health issues are a major contributor to ill health.
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