Podcasts

Employee Wellbeing has become a crucial part of recruitment strategy within the past two years. As hospitality workers suffered for a variety of reasons during the pandemic, HR departments had to adapt by discovering the needs of their employees and acting on that information in an empathetic way.

What can hospitality leaders do to ignite young people’s interest in hospitality? How can young people help others forge a great hospitality career? – What can we, as an industry, do to engage the next generation to believe that an amazing career in hospitality is for them?

In a recent survey, 84% of hospitality professionals questioned had experienced some kind of mental health issue within their career and 46% would not feel comfortable talking about their health concerns with their colleagues.

There has been a 55% increase in in homelessness in the past five years, with over 10,000 people sleeping rough in London alone in 2020. Only a Pavement Away is a charity founded by representatives from the hospitality industry who believe that everybody deserves the chance to find and forge a career.