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Approximately 57% of Irish employers are struggling to attract and retain staff this year – two-fifths blame too high salary expectations.

Global company HID which has a Galway-based Centre of Excellence announced yesterday (International Women’s Day) that it is to launch an Employee Resource Group for its female employees.

This January, Ifac, Ireland’s farming, food and agribusiness specialist professional services firm, is advising Westmeath employers to make sure their records are kept in order when it comes to employee sick leave and to budget for the additional payroll costs for the new statutory sick pay.

Colman Collins is the author of HOW TO SUCCEED IN YOUR FIRST JOB. Colman wrote this book to help recently qualified graduates to navigate their way successfully from the world of college to the world of work. The book is based on his forty years experience, initially as a HR Director with two blue chip multinationals including Nortel Networks here in Galway and more recently as the owner and CEO of Collins McNicholas Recruitment & HR Services Group, which also has an offi ce in Galway.

A survey among Irish workers has found that two out of three people (64 percent) said they now work in a flexible environment - this is an increase from the same survey in 2019, before the pandemic when 53 percent said they worked in a flexible environment.

Corporate wellness programmes are a hot topic in the workplace. With increased levels of job stress and burnout reported, companies are prioritising wellness to safeguard employees and ensure employee retention.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has requested the Taoiseach and Government to pay a wage subsidy directly to employers to allow them to continue to pay staff during the current crisis.

More than 70 HR professionals and business owners from local SMEs to large multinationals attended the recent employment law breakfast briefing hosted by Collins McNicholas Recruitment & HR Services Group.

Although a study in 2017 showed that the average Irish worker only has a 22.2 hour working week, this is certainly not true across all levels of the career ladder. In many professions, the number of hours worked each week far exceeds this number and, in fact, exceeds the 40 hour week which is held up as the standard. For example, those working in the Irish agricultural and forestry industries work over 50 hours per week, while managers and directors in Ireland work an average of 42.6 hours each week. However, it is not only by increasing the number of hours worked that employee productivity can be improved so here are some top tips to increase efficiency in the workplace.

If you are not feeling very motivated in your current job, it maybe as a result of poor job satisfaction.