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Work-Life Balance: Embracing Flexibility and Well-Being

​In the hustle and bustle of our fast-paced lives, striking and maintaining a balance between work and personal life has become more crucial than ever.October, marked by the observance of National ...

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Are you ‘Fit to Thrive’ in the Year Ahead?

While many of us might look to the new year as an opportunity to discover our optimum fitness on a personal level, do we really think about what it takes to get a business and its people ‘work fit’...

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High performing teams

Happy teammates all working towards a common goal will bring success. With football at the forefront of our minds, we have been inspired to consider what it is that makes a winning team, and how em...

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Mental Health in the Workplace – Your Role as the Employer, and Signs to Observe

While it might feel mental health is something we all talk more freely about in today’s society, it’s an escapable reality that in the workplace, many still feel unable to speak up. In fact, resear...

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Get Christmas Wrapped Up Early….September Tis The Season for Festive Forecasting

May we be the first to wish you a very Merry Christmas.And no, we’ve not gone loopy from too much summertime sun and sangria.In fact, all the evidence points to this being the absolute perfect time...

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​Preparing your business and workforce for a recession

After the tense lockdown period in 2020, many businesses are still experiencing challenges which, now coupled with rising inflation and the threat of a recession, can be incredibly overwhelming. So...

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Are employee benefits the answer to the Great Resignation?

​The Great Resignation is a phenomenon that has been widely featured in the news cycle for the last year. It has been reported that over a million workers left the workforce after the pandemic and...

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Planning your summer holiday cover

​Typically, most employees will want to take their annual leave over summer and Christmas and it could leave your business understaffed with little cover.  It’s a great idea to plan your holiday co...

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Creating a Covid Contingency Plan

​As we are all aware, the pandemic has tested many businesses ability to react and support their staff. Even today when we are living without any restrictions in the UK, most businesses are havi...

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The importance of collaboration

​Collaboration is a key value at Thrive and when it is successful in the workplace everyone benefits, the employees and the employer. “At Thrive, we build effective relationships with our colleag...

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Is it time to refresh your workplace practices?

​January is so often a time for renewal. A chance to have a fresh start and review any bad habits that you might have got into. Now is a great moment for you and your workers to take a good look at...

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How to create a strong workforce strategy for the festive period

​‘Tis the season to be busy! The festive period is always a pinch point for recruitment especially in the retail industry, now also accounting for Black Friday (26th November) and pushing throug...

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Furlough Phase-out

​The Job Retention Scheme, which saw the government pay certain employees wages through the worst of the pandemic, is being unwound. Under the scheme, commonly referred to as the furlough scheme, e...

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Building Backstops Better

​​The events of the last few weeks have helped drive home that when it comes to the immense challenges faced by employers across the UK over the past year: we are not out of the woods yet.Following...

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Catalent Case Study

​​We recently caught up with Graham Prictor, Operations Manager at Catalent, a large pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) with a facility in Swindon, Wiltshire....

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Planning for a flexidemic future

​With the lockdown restrictions due to lift further, is your site still COVID-secure? Are you keeping on top of the latest rules and advice to continue to protect your workers? What processes are y...

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Smart recruitment plan step 1

​At Thrive Group we help clients plan, recruit and manage workforce requirements to secure quality people and maximise business performance; the smart approach to workforce management.With Brexit a...

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Smart recruitment plan step 3

​With a squeeze on the skilled workforce in the UK, it’s more important than ever to recruit and retain the best candidates. Whilst safety practices are now second nature for many key workers who h...

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Smart recruitment plan step 2

​​If you read our previous post, you’ve identified that you will need more workers, but how are you going to recruit them safely? There are several ways to help manage numbers in a covid-secure way...

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The Thrive Benefits App - why candidates choose the Thrive Group

​We celebrate the work, the planning and the graft that goes into the essential work of the factories, workshops, warehouses, and hauliers of Britain; the local authority key workers & operatives a...

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