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The importance and benefits of diverse teams are well publicised and understood. Achieving this can be a different matter. On Wednesda…

After a difficult year, recruitment in our region looks to be bouncing back and as confidence in the market grows, we’re optimistic that 2021 will be a great year. Here’s our round-up of everything you need to know.

Employers passionate about developing their organisation’s culture, engagement levels and workplace environment can now sign up to take part in the new Best Employers Eastern Region 2021 Programme.

In September, Pure celebrated 18 years of providing professional recruitment consultancy to the eastern region. Considering everything currently happening in the world, we have had the opportunity to reflect on the past 18 years and to consider what we have learnt over this time.

We were incredibly sad to hear about the news of Alex Pearce, Managing Director of eras Ltd who died suddenly in mid-October following a short illness. I would like to pay tribute to our business partner and friend, who we co-founded Best Employers Eastern Region with, in 2012.

We were delighted to host our first virtual Women’s Leadership Programme alumni session on 30 July.

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices offer care and support for children and young people with life-threatening conditions and support families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Due to the previous CEO’s retirement after 15 years in post, Lynn Walters and David Culley of Pure Executive were approached to support EACH to recruit their next CEO.

If you were to Google “diversity in the workplace”, you would find any number of articles that explain why it is important.  Fundamentally, it all points to this – more diverse workforces perform better financially and are more innovative.

Burnout is one of the biggest risk factors to employee welfare and to an organisation’s employee engagement levels. It doesn’t just affect an individual’s mental and physical health; it can have a knock-on effect on everyone around them and on business productivity overall.