by Insight Editor | Aug 31, 2020 | Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services
Just a few short decades ago, stress was almost viewed as a badge of honour, worn with pride and representative of success. It seemed to be reserved solely for high-powered executives, executive leaders who worked tirelessly around the clock to ensure the smooth...
by Eoin Lyons | Jul 27, 2020 | Policies and Procedures
Recently, there has been an abundance of research conducted on the Irish nation’s attitude towards remote working. Although the nature of remote working of late has, in effect, been forced on us, in general employees have indicated that they have found the arrangement...
by Eoin Lyons | Jul 27, 2020 | Contracts and Handbooks
For over two decades, Insight HR has been helping leading Irish businesses realise the true value of their human resources. Throughout this time, we have had a unique view of the inner workings of HR departments across the country. Though every HR team is formed of...
by Eoin Lyons | Jul 9, 2020 | Change Management
In our last blog, we discussed some of the challenges facing Irish leaders in terms of skills shortages and career development. In this blog, we will be focusing on a very real challenge facing Irish leaders today – that of crisis management. Crisis management on a...
by Eoin Lyons | Jul 9, 2020 | HR Outsourcing and Interim HR Placements, Learning & Development
In June 2019, author and philosopher Charles Handy declared: “Work needs to be organised, things should be managed…people can only be encouraged, inspired and led.” While it might seem like a surface, linguistic distinction to make, the real issue stems from a much...
by Eoin Lyons | Jun 8, 2020 | Employee Assistance
As Ireland continues to emerge from lockdown, employees that have been working from home are advised to continue doing so. For some employees in this situation, the lockdown has enhanced productivity and increased role enjoyment. Others, meanwhile, have had to assume...
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...
by Eoin Lyons | May 28, 2020 | Workplace Conflict
All employers have, “so far as is reasonably practicable,” a responsibility to safeguard “the safety, health and welfare at work of his or her employees”. In order to fully comply with this requirement in the middle of the current crisis, employers need to stay on top...
by Eoin Lyons | May 28, 2020 | Employment Law Compliance
As many businesses across Ireland are getting ready to reopen on a phased basis, those employees who have successfully been working from home are required to remain doing so. This means that it will be August – or even later – before workers fully return to the...
by Eoin Lyons | Apr 30, 2020 | Workplace Conflict, Workplace Investigations
If you have arrived here from a Google search and you are wondering how to conduct a remote workplace investigation, we suggest you check out Part One of this two-part series here. So, you’ve made the initial preparations for your remote workplace investigation,...
