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Only 13% of employees state that work ‘fully meets’ their expectations. So it is crucial that organisations deliver a better employee experience to engage, train, and retain their workforce.

There’s nothing more frustrating at work when your quick question has a long-winded, outdated and impractical answer - if you even get an answer at all.

Reelyze is an AI-powered knowledge platform that shares accurate and relevant information on demand, for better, faster and more measurable employee learning and development. 

The benefits are abound: L&D can finally say what they’ve spent on the budget and how its impacted the business; managers can rely on L&D to help their team instead of taking time out of their busy schedules to do it themselves, and employees have an intuitive and helpful tool to answer their queries, even the stupid ones.

Find out more about the app by watching the short video.

Recent studies show that 20% of male employees will die before they reach retirement age, and half of them could’ve been prevented. This disconnection between men and healthcare is having detrimental and far-reaching consequences on businesses and HR goals, such as poorer engagement and higher attrition and sickness levels. 

To help these businesses, and employees who may feel too embarrassed to reach out, Peppy offers quick and easy access to anonymous, personalised healthcare support, delivered by qualified practitioners.

HR departments are always looking for more holistic and personalised ways to improve the health and wellbeing of their employees. HelloSelf’s digital platform offers individuals and teams psychological coaching & therapy delivered by trained clinical psychologists, which will allow them to set goals and overcome psychological challenges both inside and outside the workplace.

Planning for retirement can be a daunting and complicated prospect for many of us. But it doesn’t have to be. By taking advantage of a financial wellness programme you can help your people by taking away many of the stresses involved in the process. 

In this spotlight, we speak to Adrian Cooper, business development director at HUB Financial Solutions, about an innovative new tool that makes putting those pension plans in place as simple as possible.

Hiring new people can be a daunting process, especially when hiring independent contractors. Managing onboarding, invoices and payments can almost feel like a full-time job. But by utilising the right platforms, hiring managers can ensure they can easily build a diverse and talented team.

In this spotlight, we speak to Lillia Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify, about a revolutionary new platform that can help you to hire the right people, while saving you time and money.

Did you know there are more than two million freelancers currently operating in the UK? And this number is only likely to increase. Recent studies from BCG and McKinsey found that 90% of business leaders believe that a blended model of permanent and freelance workforces will give them a competitive edge, while 70% believe they are likely to engage with more freelance workers than they did pre-Covid.

With this in mind, People Management's Suzanne Bidlake speaks to James Orpin, VP of sales at YunoJuno, to discuss whether a Freelance Management System (FMS) that provides a single point for compliance, control and visibility over your spend might be the solution to your freelance management headaches. 

It’s a busy time for HR. And every little helps. But what if tech can help a lot. Can HR solutions really help you expect the unexpected, and respond to the most pressing issues facing employers today, such as flexible working practices, talent retention, or diversity and inclusion? That’s exactly what this Product Spotlight sets to find out. 

In conversation with Nick Gallimore, director of talent, transformation and insight at Advanced, we look at whether the right HR tech can take your business to the next level.

As employers enter a new era of hybrid working, we consider whether workforces have become more or less productive since the start of the pandemic, and how this can be measured. The right HR tech can help HR teams, managers, and employees all become more productive and engaged by providing the right information when they need it.

People Management's Suzanne Bidlake speaks to Nick Gallimore, Director of Talent, Transformation and Insight at Advanced – a provider of a wide range of cutting-edge HCM solutions - about how HR tech can take businesses to the next level in a changing world of work.

Can one piece of software be your pay and reward platform, corporate intranet, communications hub, learning gateway and stepping stone to opportunity? People Management’s Suzanne Bidlake quizzes Simon Davies and Rebecca Carter from MHR on what the People First HR and payroll platform can do for your organisation – and how it stands out in a crowded marketplace.

Find out how People First delivers on its promise of fast adoption, puts real-time data in the hands of people managers and could help remote workers feel part of a community, in our latest 10-minute video tour of leading HR product solutions.

Can Sage’s flagship HR management platform, Sage People, really transform the way your organisation “leads, manages and engages” its workforce through the rapidly evolving world of work? 

Vanisha Patel, Solutions Consultant at Sage joins People Management’s Edward Craig for a quick 10-minute tour of Sage People, showing us around some of the key features of their cloud-based system and discussing how it could increase productivity, deliver better employee experiences and even help you win the war for talent. 

If you’re weighing up whether a new end-to-end HR management system could be right for your organisation, join us for an honest look at who could benefit, and how.

What is it about SAP SuccessFactors that makes it a compelling HR software option? Phil Southall gave People Management's Edward Craig a quick 10-minute tour of the platform – and discussed how it scales easily for any size organisation and how the brilliant mobile app allows you to complete HR tasks on the go, frankly, what all employees demand these days.

If you want to "get your workforce ready for tomorrow by understanding the talent you have today" – you need to take a look.

Over the past five years, a significant trend towards the digitalisation of HR processes was emerging. It was understandable, reflective of people’s behaviour, happening at a pace most organisations understood and dealt with.

Watch our short video to hear tips on how to improve your approach to mental health in the workplace. The video includes advice from: Perry Timms, adviser to the CIPD, Joy Reymond; Head of Rehabilitation at Unum; and Catherine Diamond, Senior HR Business Partner at TSB.