How to keep your employees happy without a payrise

With high food prices and household bills, many workers are hoping for a pay rise that will offset the effects of high inflation.?But with bottom lines under pressure, employers are looking for cost-cutting measures and pay rises may be neither practical nor sustainable.?

It’s time for performance reviews at many companies. If you are unable to offer pay rises, investing in professional development and keeping communication open can help re-energise employees. Read more.

Zoom’s move shows employees are losing the work-from-home war

Research increasingly seems to be on the side of companies who order workers back to their desks. It might be time to begrudgingly consign the all-remote lifestyle to the?dustbin.

Does Zoom’s call for workers to return to the office show employees are losing the work-from-home war? Clara Murray believes the tide is turning. Read more.

Lord Bilimoria on why the CBI still matters and what business wants from?politics

"Does the country need the CBI? The answer is a resounding yes, because no other business organisation can do what we do."

Lord Karan Bilimoria ?spoke to Rohan Banerjee about why the CBI still matters and what business wants from politics. Read more.

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