The Blog

Coronavirus has changed our lives in many ways, from the way we work to the way we socialise. With many countries on lockdown, the amount of time we spend at home and isolated from friends and family...

The week commencing 6th April marks the third week of the country in lockdown. Sadly it was the week we had the biggest day-on-day rise for deaths due to coronavirus and with Boris Johnson in the ICU,...

Furloughing is a term that little had heard of or understood just a few weeks ago. Now it’s a term that’s in the news daily and that’s key to the future success of businesses and their staff acr...

As part of the government’s support package for Coronavirus, they have agreed to support businesses by paying 80% of employees’ wages, if they are put on furlough. Helping to support the e...

Welcome to the second installation of This Week in Whitehall where we give you a summary of what’s happened in politics. Foreign Policy On Monday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wanted to reassu...

The world is going through an unprecedented time, something none of would have been able to predict a few months ago. Companies who are fortunate enough to offer remote working are moving towards a wo...

Self-isolating, working remotely, and a drop in face-to-face interaction can be a big change for a lot of people. In this current climate, it’s important to understand how to look after your me...

An analysis of 8,500,000 hours of real-time earnings shows clear impact of Covid-19 on workers in the hospitality industry.   Here at Wagestream, we process a lot of workforce data. Our platform...

This time three weeks ago we hadn’t heard of the word coronavirus, now our nation is on lockdown and the world looks very different. With so much information coming out every single day we wanted to...

The Chancellor recently set out a range of measures designed to support businesses, big and small, through the crisis and help them to support their staff during this period of disruption. A key part...

The recent announcement from UK Government requiring employers to provide statutory sick pay (SSP) from the first day off work is a measure designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus and prevent a...

In a commitment to aid the containment of Covid-19 and help organisations support those affected, Wagestream is releasing a number of features that are designed to ease financial stress and the mobili...