Peter Wallace, Managing Director of HR Solutions at Capita, shares his thoughts on employee engagement during the pandemic and beyond.

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), 65% of children entering primary school today will end up in jobs that don’t yet exist.

"Can we uninstall 2020? The current version has a nasty virus in it,” says the meme flying around social media for the past few months. There are, however, glimmers of light that can be found around the world which have arisen out of the pandemic.

If the cloud was a priority for businesses before 2020, the onset of the global pandemic has made it more critical than ever.

In the first two parts of our blog series on building a sustainable workplace, we explored how IT will enable change and considered what sustainable workplaces might look like.

Walter Mischel’s infamous marshmallow experiment of the 1960s demonstrated just how difficult it is for children to resist having something now, even if it means having something better later.

While the pandemic has certainly shifted the skills landscape in a multitude of ways, the types of skills we expect to see in demand remain the same.

Being in a good place mentally and physically is vital to being able to do your best work: people are unlikely to be productive if they’re worrying about their finances or feeling stressed and unhappy or dealing with a physical condition unsupported.

There is a multitude of research that shows that people want to work for companies that can demonstrate a strong learning and development ethos.

Good mental health and wellbeing mean different things to different people, and at Capita we want to make sure our employees have the support they need to figure out what it means to them.