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How are you all doing?

Steve Bridger

The tweet below prompted me to ask this question. You are so busy. You may be feeling undervalued.  

It has been two years since Samantha asked this question, which generated a wonderfully open and supportive conversation days before the first lockdown.

 Are any other HR people feeling a bit lonely in all this :( 

So much has happened since then and while in some ways the pandemic accelerated a pre-exisiting direction of travel with regards remote working and technology, so much was new - not least 'furlough', which we were all talking about here. But there have also been deep structural changes and challenges - for example, in recruitment and retention. Now many of you are considering how you can support employees through the cost-of-living crisis. 

Amid all this, we need to look after ourselves and support one another - our peers. 

So... how are you doing?

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  • If you had asked this 3 months ago, I was on the floor - the tide of recruitment and (as Samantha wrote) "neediness" at work was overwhelming. There is very little about my face that says "Yes, please tell me all about how you're worried about your ferrets" and yet, they do!

    I'm that lucky sandwich-generation looking after my parents and my children, and I'm about to hit the 10 year mark in my company. So I had a think about what did I need, rather than everyone else's needs. And I gave my board 12 months' notice that next summer I want to take 2 months off (unpaid career break). After they got over the gulps, they have been supportive. I've got a year to get all the cover in place, and my family and I are busy planning what we'll do.

    In the meantime, I read something about how to get that "sabbatical feeling" in a small way every day, so I am trying at least a few days a week to make time to stop and reflect. On that subject, I am very keen on the recent idea of a CIPD book group - how's that coming along?
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  • If you had asked this 3 months ago, I was on the floor - the tide of recruitment and (as Samantha wrote) "neediness" at work was overwhelming. There is very little about my face that says "Yes, please tell me all about how you're worried about your ferrets" and yet, they do!

    I'm that lucky sandwich-generation looking after my parents and my children, and I'm about to hit the 10 year mark in my company. So I had a think about what did I need, rather than everyone else's needs. And I gave my board 12 months' notice that next summer I want to take 2 months off (unpaid career break). After they got over the gulps, they have been supportive. I've got a year to get all the cover in place, and my family and I are busy planning what we'll do.

    In the meantime, I read something about how to get that "sabbatical feeling" in a small way every day, so I am trying at least a few days a week to make time to stop and reflect. On that subject, I am very keen on the recent idea of a CIPD book group - how's that coming along?
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