Chiumento Blog for People Leaders and HR Professionals
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Why it’s important to offer outplacement in a time of turmoil
While the furlough scheme has managed to protect over 11million jobs since the pandemic began, with 4.7 million workers on the scheme during January 2021 (1), it hasn’t been able to protect every job and many organisations have had to make the difficult decision to...
Furlough envy – Is the grass always greener?
Until March 2019 the word furlough was an obscure, originally military term about being given a leave of absence. Now it’s joined the likes of lockdown, social distancing and the R number to, unfortunately, become part of our everyday corona vocabulary. At its peak...
What if corona had happened in the 1980s?
When logging into Google Classroom this morning, downloading my children’s schoolwork and watching them chat with their teacher and classmates, it made me think. While this is certainly challenging now, how different would it have been if COVID-19 had struck whilst I...
Why 2020 wasn’t all bad
Continuing our series of articles highlighting the positives we’ve taken from the past year our Career Concierge, Gemma Smith, shares hers. 2020 was a life-changing year for Gemma, but not for the same reason as most of us. In late March, while we were all adjusting...
IiP Gold: we’ve done it again
I recently came back from leave to a whole raft of good news. However, the thing that really made my day was finding out we’d secured the Investors in People (IiP) Gold standard for the third time in a row. I am often asked why we take IiP so seriously. My answer is...
Why it’s important to offer outplacement in a time of turmoil
While the furlough scheme has managed to protect over 11million jobs since the pandemic began, with 4.7 million workers on the scheme during January 2021 (1), it hasn’t been able to protect every job and many organisations have had to make the difficult decision to...
Furlough envy – Is the grass always greener?
Until March 2019 the word furlough was an obscure, originally military term about being given a leave of absence. Now it’s joined the likes of lockdown, social distancing and the R number to, unfortunately, become part of our everyday corona vocabulary. At its peak...
What if corona had happened in the 1980s?
When logging into Google Classroom this morning, downloading my children’s schoolwork and watching them chat with their teacher and classmates, it made me think. While this is certainly challenging now, how different would it have been if COVID-19 had struck whilst I...
Why 2020 wasn’t all bad
Continuing our series of articles highlighting the positives we’ve taken from the past year our Career Concierge, Gemma Smith, shares hers. 2020 was a life-changing year for Gemma, but not for the same reason as most of us. In late March, while we were all adjusting...
IiP Gold: we’ve done it again
I recently came back from leave to a whole raft of good news. However, the thing that really made my day was finding out we’d secured the Investors in People (IiP) Gold standard for the third time in a row. I am often asked why we take IiP so seriously. My answer is...