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Our latest thoughts, ideas and tips on all aspects of making people happier, more engaged and higher-performing.
Introducing The Brain Types
If you’ve been engaging with our content for a while, you probably know that we bang on about neuroscience a lot. In fact, we use it to underpin every decision we make on our platform and in our company. We don’t just love neuroscience, we live it. In this post, we’re going to talk about […]
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The Challenges of Modern Leadership – What Does the Future Hold For Leaders?
The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. The uncertainty around the world of work is adding a unique challenge for business leaders. They have to juggle the impact of Covid and Hybrid Working. In the face of uncertainty, leaders have a central role to play when it comes to building a new normal. At […]
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Welcome to the Neuroscience Upgrade
Have you heard? We’ve launched the biggest upgrade to our platform yet! We’re calling it the Neuroscience upgrade, and we’ve baked Neuroscience into every facet of our platform. This means that as well as being informed by expertise and insight into the world of organisational culture, our platform is underpinned by the science of how […]
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Sofology ‘Feels At Home’ with The Happiness Index and extends contract for Employee Engagement & Happiness Platform
I am delighted to share that a much loved UK retailer, Sofology, has agreed to continue working with The Happiness Index as their Employee Engagement & Happiness Platform for a 5th year. Sofology is a leading furniture retailer transitioning to an omnichannel business, with over 40 stores and 6 distribution centres across the UK. Sofology’s […]
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How to Make Culture Your Scaling Superpower
At our recent webinar, “Is Culture a Scaling Superpower?”, we were lucky enough to talk to a panel of experts about their experiences of scaling culture. Our Head of Global Happiness, Matt Phelan was joined by Jemma Rawlins, Director and Co-Founder of HRLife, David Barker, Chief People Officer at Paddle, and Darren Bates-Hirst, Head of […]
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How to create safe spaces for the trans community
As part of our Pride month activities, Margot Slattery, Head of D&I as ISS, shared with us her tips for creating, building and maintaining safe spaces for the trans community. Her guide is applicable to organisations regardless of how far along your D&I journey you are. Start off with intent Foster a sense of belonging […]
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Anxiety, Stress & Burnout: Understanding the differences and recognising the signs
Mental health is an increasingly common topic of conversation, both in the workplace and beyond. With so many mental health buzzwords and terms flying around, it’s hard to know what the different problems are, and how, as businesses, we can keep an eye out for the signs and symptoms in our teams. Three similar, and […]
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Freedom to be Human Day is coming…
Today is a huge day in the history of The Happiness Index. In July we are launching a huge neuroscience upgrade to our employee engagement and happiness platform in response to global changes in the world of work since the pandemic started. What is Freedom to be Human Day? To celebrate the Neuroscience upgrade of […]
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Too Woke for Work? : What we can learn from the Basecamp controversy
Over the last few weeks the HR twitterverse has spoken extensively about the controversial decision by technology company Basecamp’s decision to ban political conversations on their internal messaging tool. There are plenty of people on both sides of the debate, and other organisations, like Coinbase and even Google have similar policies. Back up, what is […]
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