The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been presented with an award for its commitment to staff wellbeing by the mental health charity Mind. The FCO was one of 29 organisations to be named in Mind’s new Workplace Wellbeing Index, launched this week. The Index is a new benchmark for best policy and practice and has been designed to celebrate the good work employers are doing to promote and support positive mental health. The FCO was presented with Bronze level accreditation, reflecting the work it does to support its staff in the UK and ov... Continue reading

L&D teams want technology to deliver better experiences and increase employee engagement with learning, according to one of Europe’s leading learning analysts. Digital Learning Realities 2017, published by Fosway Group in partnership with Learning Technologies and the Learning Skills Group, shows huge growth in demand for “non-traditional” learning technologies. The greatest increase in demand is for mobile learning and learner engagement platforms (74%), followed by social/collaborative platforms (71%) and analytics and dashboards (66%... Continue reading

International Workplace has today given its endorsement to the Serious eLearning Manifesto, a set of 22 principles designed to improve the effectiveness of eLearning as a learning and development tool. Created in 2014 by leading figures in the eLearning industry, the Manifesto is far from being a code of practice to blindly promote online training: two of the most fundamental principles are that learning is not always the right solution, and that eLearning is not necessarily the right answer. Instead, the Manifesto encourages training provide... Continue reading

UK commercial and industrial sectors generated 27.7 million tonnes of waste in 2014, of which 19.8 million tonnes was in England, according to the latest DEFRA statistics. A little more than half of this waste was commercial waste in both the UK and England. But it seems, this waste is frequently not being disposed of properly or legally. For the 2015/16 year, DEFRA says, local authorities dealt with 936,000 incidents of fly-tipping in England, ranging in size from single black bags to tipper lorry loads. The cost of clearance of fly tipping ... Continue reading

Recent prosecutions have highlighted the importance of going ‘hands-free’ whilst driving, and it’s vital that employees who drive for work purposes are advised of the company’s stance on these issues and the health and safety precautions they should be taking. Mobile phones have been at the centre of recent cases, but research indicates that companies should be banning anything that distracts the driver’s attention or prevents them from having full control of the vehicle. Road safety organisation, GEM Motoring Assist, is campaigning... Continue reading