How do you make your Employee Value Proposition stand out from your competitors?

Flexibility used to be a way for some companies to attract top talent when they couldn’t compete on salaries, but now it feels like companies both large and small are having to find newer and more creative ways to distinguish themselves as a place where high performers really want to work. However, many companies aren’t […]

While it’s now far more mainstream for many people to enjoy the flexibility of not going into the office 5 days a week, is there potentially a dark side to this?

“Finding good staff is a nightmare”. “It’s better to have someone that does an ok job than have no one at all”. “That person’s a bit negative, but we just need someone to do the work”.

I was having dinner with some wonderful friends last night. They started off as business colleagues and now I enjoy the fact that they have become friends. We got to talking about how I went about finding our amazing “Captain of Logistics” – the amazing Karen Finucane. Yes – everyone needs a Karen.

Imagine this…you are a seasoned professional, having been in your field for many years and are an expert at what you do. You have been happily, productively, and successfully working for a number of weeks/months doing a mixture of physical presence in the office during office hours and working from home at your personal preference. Your task is to complete a set amount of work for specific deadlines, so realistically, the majority of the time it doesn’t matter when or where you are when doing it (with the exception of the tasks and meetings where you’re required physically).

We’ve spoken in the past about our Heavy, Medium, Light philosophy (H, M, L). If you missed it, a very brief explanation is that you bucket your tasks into the energy spend required to complete them – is it heavy and drains you of energy, or is it light and feels like it gives energy […]

This is certainly a hot topic over the years and at NEP we often get asked for our opinion on agile offices in terms of productivity. It’s also important to think about how mental health may be impacted. We have many clients working in agile spaces and quite frankly it’s not something that comes naturally […]