From an employer and HR perspective, setting a limit to the amount of instances of sickness an employee can have in a rolling year helps them to keep employees in work and reduces the number of “bogus” sick days and helps them to manage fair treatment of all employees in the workplace. But is this blanket treatment of all employees the best way to manage sickness in the workplace?
Read More‘Criminal’ is an incredibly blanket term which assembles the likes of drug offenders, thieves, murderers and child rapists into the same category. But surely there is a spectrum to criminality that we should consider before condemning these individuals indefinitely?
Read MoreWhy am I still sitting here bemoaning the lionization of the NHS? Do they not deserve the applause? Should they not go to the front of the queue? After all, they are at the ‘coal-face’ of this pandemic, exposing themselves day in day out to this virus.
Read MoreIt would all be okay wouldn’t it? We would be back out there partying, gigging and consuming again by winter, and in the meantime we would donate, stream online, support our favourite venues and artists from our homes, and just manage, wouldn’t we?
Read MoreYes, you read that correctly. In September 2020, artist Erik Kessels adorned the floor of a skatepark with the faces of womxn who had underwent plastic surgery and invited skaters to skate over them, slowly destroying their image in the name of art.
Read MoreFrom as long as I remember, university was sold as “the best time of your life” and a place to make “lifelong memories”. I’m sure everyone’s experience of university is different, but for me, I spent some of my worst days at university wishing that it was over.
Read MoreWant your sustainable fashion cape too? Here are 4 easy things you can do to combat the damage of fast fashion on our environment by using charity shops to shop sustainably.
Read MoreSadly, celebrities aren’t sharing their fantastic new chocolate protein powder on social media because they want to bond with you or because they’re your friend and want to let you in on a great deal they’ve found.
Read MoreI hold a large issue with defining intelligence based on memory recall. The education system is built on moulding capabilities on how to learn information for recall later on in high-pressure circumstances.
Read MoreThis is a new era of people seeking work-life balance and wanting to move away from the stressful life of the Big City – the packed train commutes, the rush-hour, the traffic jams. What is there to miss anymore?
Read MoreEvery industry has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Usually, returning to work after a holiday, annual leave or even a long weekend can have an impact on your mental health and routine, so how are we supposed to prepare to return to the 9-5 seamlessly now?
Read MoreThe beauty of being a woman as the French say, ‘of a certain age’, is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.
Read MoreFor most, the pandemic has ruined our resolutions, prevented our pledges, and thwarted the 2020 vows we wrote down in our iPhone notes whilst nursing a new year’s hangover. (1. Never drink again). Holidays have been hindered; weddings wavered; resolutions reset.
Read MoreI have been called on to exclusively handle President Trump’s PR in the run up to the election. It’s a long story, but it involves a wrong number, a dynamic lie, and a bribe.
Read MoreI’m embarrassed to say it: I’ve seen more of Australia than I have my own home country. Go ahead - a ring that bell and shout ‘shame, shame, shame’ for all to hear. It’s just that here wasn’t as interesting as abroad, although the UK does have so much to offer.
Read MoreWater is the basis for a lot of the world creation myths, from the creation myths of Mesopotamia to Bakuba Creation myth of Africa. Water is not only a place of creation though; it is a dangerous force of which the human and animal kingdom alike have respect, and be wary of.
Read MoreI’m trying to think of everything I would have wanted to say in the moment when the door is closed. Everything that mum or dad will be unable to say in the moment because they’ll be orbiting the room trying to keep busy with bedding and Tupperware before the last goodbye.
Read MoreI have come to the interesting realisation of the juxtaposition between ‘isolation’ and ‘escapism’. Isn’t it funny that during lockdown we have become isolated in our homes, yet we have found it possible to feel enjoyment, escapism, and freedom through our hobbies?
Read MoreI don’t know how long I’ve had a low sex drive, but it’s had a marked change over the years. Going without sex for months would have felt like a death sentence in my late teens and early 20’s, but now I just view it with a ‘it is what it is’ mindset.
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