Christmas is usually a time for employers to show gratitude and thanks to their employees, with the most common way being through a Christmas party, gifts or bonuses. But whilst we still live in the midst of a global pandemic and with some businesses having to tighten the pear strings, how can you still recognise and reward your staff?

With the number of coronavirus infection rates rising across the UK, we are seeing localised areas being forced back into lockdown and nationwide changes to socialising rules. The restrictions are being introduced with the aim of controlling the spread of the virus but how will new social restrictions affect your workforce?

The government have announced (25th July 2020) that anyone returning to the UK from Spain, including the Balearics and Canaries, must self-isolate for 14 days. This means that they must return to their home immediately after entering the UK and remain there for 14 days.

‘Businesses and workplaces should encourage their employees to work at home, wherever possible.’ This is the advice from the government to all UK business, in a bid to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 across the country.
For some companies, this is business as usual but for many this is a new approach and just like anything else that’s new, it comes with tricky challenges and questions.

With the recent upgrade of the threat of the Coronavirus on the UK being upgraded from low to moderate, we are finding that our clients are coming to us for advice on what is best to do in the workplace. The government will be holding a press conference at some point today (3rd March 2020), so it may be that advice will change once that has occurred, but for now we have put this blog together to summarise what is currently being advised: