by Dave Corkery | Oct 28, 2025 | Change Management, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Workplace Conflict
The great return — or the great resistance? Over the last two years, “return to office” mandates have dominated workplace headlines. Banks, tech companies, and public bodies alike are rethinking the hybrid working models that defined the pandemic era. In Ireland, the...
by Eoin Lyons | Mar 8, 2023 | Bullying, Conflict in the Workplace, Employment Law Compliance, Grievance and Disciplinary, Policies and Procedures, Sexual harassment, Workplace Conflict, Workplace Investigations
In our recent poll on LinkedIn, we found that a shocking 70% of you (at the time of writing) experienced or witnessed discrimination in the workplace. Although legislation, policies and practices have been aiming to prevent, or at least minimise, workplace...
by Eoin Lyons | Mar 9, 2022 | Contracts and Handbooks, Employee Grievances, Hiring, Performance Management, Workplace Conflict
The past two years have marked another huge period of change for companies everywhere. A global pandemic, a continuing skills shortage, the sustained adoption of technology and a reset of the employee-company power relationship, amongst other things, are all...
by Eoin Lyons | Oct 13, 2021 | Change Management, Covid-19, Discipline and Grievances, Employee Grievances, Workplace Conflict
As we return to work, the onset of division between vaccinated and unvaccinated employees has been an unfortunate development. Since September 20th, there has been a gradual and careful re-opening of offices as advised by the Irish Government. Ahead of further easing...
by Insight Editor | Mar 26, 2021 | Discipline and Grievances, Employee Discipline, Fraud, Fraud in the Workplace, Workplace Conflict
In 2020, PwC conducted its bi-annual Irish Economic Crime and Fraud Survey of more than seventy Irish organisations. When asked whether their organisation had experienced any form of fraud, corruption, cybercrime or other economic crime within the previous 24 months,...
by Eoin Lyons | May 28, 2020 | Employment Law Compliance, Workplace Conflict
When it was announced that Ireland would begin easing Covid-19 restrictions on the 18th of May, the news was bittersweet. Businesses that could reopen in one of the earlier phases breathed a sigh of relief. This relief, however, was short-lived. It soon became clear...
