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How has the pandemic affected people's mental health and how should employers handle it in turn?
In this special episode of HR Insights, we were thrilled to be joined by special guest speaker, Dr Jen Daffin, Community Clinical Psychologist and Trauma Informed Practice Lead from Platfform.
As mental health problems have been made increasingly worse by ongoing crises, it is imperative as employers that we take the time to look at what we can do to assist our employees.
As we discussed in our previous session, Managing Conflict in a Burnout World, employers should take a position of understanding the problems their employees are facing with a holistic approach. The ‘whole-self’ environment at work brings an expectation for workplaces to look at the support that they can provide.
In this HR Insights session, we explored the psychology behind the trauma caused by the pandemic, what has changed in terms of what employers will see in work, and how employers need to think differently in the responses they make going forward.

In this special episode of HR Insights, we were thrilled to be joined by special guest speaker, Leah Steele, a burnout and resilience mentor and coach who founded Searching for Serenity.
As HR professionals, managing professional conflicts and avoiding employee burnout are two key factors to the job. On the back of a global crisis, and the unpredictability of the working world and changing work/life balances, businesses are reporting an uplift in work related conflicts and staff struggling with workloads.
Fostering healthier workplaces is a necessity at any time, but particularly because of a crisis that has intensified job demands and drained job resources.
In this HR Insights session, we explored what burnout looks like in the workplace, how to identify the potential pitfalls to create a more sustainable and resilient working environment and the top 10 tips to manage the conflict that arises as a result.

​In a special HR Insights session, we partnered with Leonard Cheshire to discuss how we can make recruitment as accessible and diverse as possible.
Diversity within the workplace offers businesses a huge range of benefits, including better problem solving, employee engagement, increased profits and better decision making, but a conversation about diversity cannot be had without first talking about disabilities. 
In Britain alone, over 14 million people have a disability or long-term condition. While they make up over 21% of the population, or one in five people, it may surprise you to find out that only 54% of disabled people are in employment. Disabled people have to apply for more than 60% more jobs than non-disabled people in the UK.  Do you feel confident hiring a disabled person?
In this special HR Insights session with Kirsteen Allison of Leonard Cheshire and Anna Denton-Jones from Refreshing Law Ltd, we explored how we can empower employers to identify and remove barriers that prevent disabled people entering the workforce, and how to increase their recruitment accessibility.

We are thrilled to welcome our latest guest to Yolk’s Diversity Champions podcast; Kirsteen Allison – Disability Awareness Trainer at Leonard Cheshire.
In conversation with Nici Jones of Yolk Recruitment, this podcast covers Kirsteen's experience as a disabled person and the work she does to remove barriers and increase disability inclusion and what employers can do to start their disability inclusion journey.
A big thank you to Kirsteen for joining us on this episode, we thoroughly enjoyed the conversation!

If you think we’ve faced change in the last two years, you should be aware that even bigger changes are around the corner. With COP26 having highlighted key problems, it is clear that environmental and sustainability challenges and social issues present even bigger development changes, now more than ever.
​​What can businesses and HR be doing regarding environmental and sustainability challenges, and the social issues that come with it?
In this session, Anna Denton-Jones of Refreshing Law Ltd spoke about what’s around the corner and what HR can be doing. 
​What is ESG, why is it important and what is HR’s role?
The areas that are impacted
Measures HR might be considering

Reshaping pensions

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As our last HR insights session of the year, we invited our listeners to pose their questions to HR expert and employment solicitor, Anna Denton Jones of Refreshing Law Ltd.
The session answered the burning questions you've had on HR and employment law, covering the validity of electronic signatures, what employers can do to help prevent mental health crises in their employees and whether an employer can enter a homeworking employee's home.
We also covered the three most essential training sessions for employees, what happens with GDPR if emails are taken outside of the workplace, the menopause, and more.