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Stay up to date with the latest HR news, insights, and practical resources from SYLO. From legal updates and guides to thought leadership and downloadable tools, you’ll find everything you need to support your people and your business.

Managing Annual Leave and Bank Holidays: A Common SME Challenge

16th March 2026ArticlesFeatured Post

Managing annual leave and bank holidays can be challenging for SMEs. Discover practical tips for balancing employee requests with operational needs.

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Salary Benchmarking: Making Confident Pay Decisions in Uncertain Times

15th April 2026Articles

Salary benchmarking helps businesses make fair, informed pay decisions. Discover why it matters, how often to review it, and how to manage pay conversations with confidence.

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Preventing Workplace Stress Before It Escalates

22nd March 2026Articles

Preventing workplace stress starts with early action. Learn how organisations can spot warning signs, support managers and stop stress escalating in the workplace.

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Employee engagement isn’t about motivation, it’s about trust

18th February 2026Articles

Blended learning often fails not because of poor content, but because it doesn’t change behaviour. This article explores why leadership capability, confidence and judgement matter more than completion rates.

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Blended learning fails when training is treated as content

12th February 2026Articles

Blended learning often fails not because of poor content, but because it doesn’t change behaviour. This article explores why leadership capability, confidence and judgement matter more than completion rates.

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Health and safety failures are people failures wearing a compliance mask

4th February 2026Articles

Health and safety failures are people failures wearing a compliance mask Most health and safety […]

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Employment Rights Act 2025 Checklist

19th January 2026Download Guides

Download the Employment Rights Act 2025 Checklist to understand legal changes and timelines and prepare your managers for the new requirements.

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HR Trends 2026: Preparing People and Business for a New Era

16th December 2025Download Guides

Download the HR Trends 2026 guide and explore the key people, technology and employment law changes shaping the future of work.

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Social wellbeing: Building connection, community and belonging

3rd December 2025News

Explore how fostering social wellbeing in the workplace builds trust, teamwork and belonging. Learn SYLO Beyond HR’s practical strategies to strengthen connection, collaboration and culture.

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Mental wellbeing: Creating space for clarity and emotional strength

28th November 2025News

Discover how prioritising mental wellbeing helps employees thrive. Learn how employers can create a culture of clarity, emotional resilience, and authentic support with SYLO Beyond HR’s expert guidance.

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    We have been using Breathe over the last term to track our staff holidays. This is a great system as it highlights different cohorts of staff and when is free for others to book on the calendar. This has supported our ratio requirements and helped us to track holiday entitlements.

    We like the system so much that we have extended it to using the staffing schedules to log staff attendance and hours needed to be processed for payroll. Sharon has been so helpful in helping us set up different employees work patterns and it has been really effective for our nursery needs.

     

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    Phillipa Arnold – Operations Manager. Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries – Cambridge Franchise