5 HR challenges for the Social Care sector in 2023
HR teams in UK Social Care will face many challenges in this post-pandemic and inflation-ridden year. Here are the 5 biggest HR challenges of 2023.
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HR teams in UK Social Care will face many challenges in this post-pandemic and inflation-ridden year. Here are the 5 biggest HR challenges of 2023.
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Frontline communications platform Yapster has been acquired by Sona to accelerate the expansion of our revolutionary Frontline Operating System.
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The care sector is facing a serious workforce crisis. Employee recognition programmes offer a simple solution to the challenge of high staff turnover.
PUBLISHED: November 2022
Employee recognition programs are no longer a 'nice-to-have' - they are a must.
Our survey of 500 UK Health & Social Care employees highlights both the pivotal role of recognition in improving retention rates and the urgent need to address a perceived lack of appreciation in the sector.
PUBLISHED: October 2022
58% of care sector employees don't believe work-life balance exists in the care sector.
We surveyed 750 UK care sector employees to understand their attitudes towards flexible working and what these mean for providers looking to increase their ‘flex appeal’.
DownloadPUBLISHED: August 2022
Why are health and social care workers leaving... and where are they going?
1 in every 10 health and social care workers could leave the sector this year. This represents an opportunity for care organisations to rethink how they support, engage and motivate their staff.
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We're thrilled to announce that we've acquired Yapster, a leading mobile messaging app used by companies across the frontline economy to communicate with their teams.
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We've joined forces to accelerate the expansion of our revolutionary Frontline Operating System across the frontline economy.
Founded in 2015, Yapster is a secure, all-company instant messaging app that enables 1-1 and group conversations and company-wide social sharing. The app is used by household names including BrewDog, Caffè Nero, Krispy Kreme, Next, and Welcome Break and integrates with other employee-facing technologies such as labour management, learning and rewards platforms.
Together we now serve more than 100,000 users in 5 countries across social care, hospitality, retail and logistics.
Yapster and its team are widely respected across hospitality and retail, and we see extraordinary potential to accelerate Sona’s mission with this acquisition of their expertise.
Employees today expect company software to be as powerful and easy to use as their favourite personal apps - and that’s precisely the level of customer experience Sona was founded and funded to deliver.
“All companies are under pressure to accomplish more with less right now, which means doing everything possible to get the most out of employees. Sona, with its backing from Gradient Ventures, is the only technology supplier I’ve seen in my 7 years running Yapster that appears truly capable of delivering the consumer-grade design and AI power customers are now crying out for in order to solve their productivity puzzles. Craig (Yapster Co-founder CTO) and I are both excited to see popular Yapster functionality appear in the Sona platform at an even higher level of speed and slickness over the next year or so.”
Rob Liddiard - Yapster Co-founder
Yapster Co-founders Rob and Craig
On behalf of everyone here, I would like to welcome team Yapster and their customers and partners to the Sona family. It's a super exciting way to kick-start the year for us, and there's much more to come, so stay tuned!
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