A Press Association journalist is looking for expert spokespeople for a piece on preventing loneliness with the rise of remote/hybrid working. This will be for their B2B service Mediapoint which is aimed at organisation leaders/senior managers, so will be focused on employed staff who work remotely (not freelancers).&nbsp;Experts must have direct experience working in this field - eg HR pros, workplace wellbeing experts, management experts, etc.&nbsp;Let me know on this thread if you're interested in commenting, and the journalist will then send over questions.

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Kate Underwood

Kate Underwood is all about honest, no-nonsense HR that actually works for small businesses. With a background in some of the world’s best-known brands, she now brings that big business know-how to smaller teams who want to get things right without all the faff. She believes businesses work best when people and strategy are in sync. When goals are clear, people feel supported, and everyone actually wants to show up. Kate’s style is practical, empowering and refreshingly jargon-free. She helps business owners build simple, effective HR processes that support great culture, good communication and confident leadership. She’s also a self-confessed HR tech geek and is known for her love of apps, gadgets and anything that saves time and stress. Her approach helps cut out the chaos so teams can focus on what really matters. No more sleepless nights, awkward chats or endless paperwork. Just HR that actually helps.

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Yes, I would be very interested in answering questions on this. I have recently written several posts for my Instagram page (@hr.katie) on the topic of hybrid working and keeping in touch with remote workers.

Katie Elliott

Hello! I’m Katie
I’m here to support start up and scaling businesses.
HR Katie will help you with your “people” questions and queries as you grow your team!

Having worked with organisations through COVID on how to support staff through the rise in 'work from home' and hybrid working, I'd be happy to answer some questions on this topic. 

Dr Felicity Baker

Award winning wellbeing and resilience training providers. Founded by two Clinical Psychologists, Dr Jo Burrell and Dr Felicity Baker who with many years' experience in the NHS and privately, are experts in the fields of mental health, resilience and wellbeing. With their own peer-reviewed and published model, The Skills-based Model of Personal Resilience, they bring all the tools and techniques needed to build resilience and maintain wellbeing over the longer term. Their resilience training, coaching and supervision draws on this model to enhance the lives of their clients, supporting them to manage challenge and change, to rebuild confidence, to manage stress and minimise overwhelm and burnout. Their aim is to prevent the emergence of mental health problems by intervening with evidence-based tools and strategies at an early stage, allowing their clients to increase self-awareness of early warning signs and triggers, understand their stress responses and develop the skills they need to banish stress, recover and bounce back.

Cheney Hamilton

Cheney Hamilton is CEO & Founder of The Find Your Flex Group. She is a noted Thought Leader on Outcome based working, Targeted Operating Model Change and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Future of Work and regularly shares research and gives evidence to Government and The Senedd.

Cheney advocates on the need for careers with flexibility and business that operate without fixed costs. She encourages this by the use of outcome-based working and job descriptions, changing a companies ability to target and attract the most talented and diverse employees. 
 
Bringing together industry leading HR specialists to deliver focused one hour 'power' sessions for her clients and their teams, covering topics such as a Journey to Mutable, & An Intro to Outcome-based working. 
 
Cheney regularly speaks at Industry learning, Career and Future of Work events and has received several awards for Culture, Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Championing Women and Community Making. 
 
Her job & social media platform reaches over 1.3M people each month, providing industry insight into many challenging areas of recruitment and people - in addition to promoting lots of flexible Jobs.

I have managed and led in person & remote teams for over 10 years in large corporate tech businesses. I am also co-founder of Events Made Simple a UK team building and events business that specialises in helping companies bring teams together, boost morale and increase collaboration and engagement so this is a favourite topic of ours.

Natasha Maddock

Natasha is a qualified lawyer and has spent the last 14 years advising technology businesses about commercial contracts. She is also co-founder and non-executive director of Events Made Simple, a team building and events company that is changing the way clients book corporate events for the better.

Natasha has a passion for process and loves nothing more than to make things which feel complex and overwhelming, simple and straightforward. She also really cares about people and wholeheartedly believes in Richard Branson’s quote “Take care of your employees and they’ll take care of your business”. As an experienced people manager, Natasha regularly writes about topics like employee engagement and building effective teams.

I am keen to help. As well as creating BuzzHubs to help businesses tackle problems with isolation and disconnected remote workers, in another business I’ve overseen the transition from a 5 days a week in the office business to remote first. 

Martin Delany

Previously co-founded Lifetime Protection Services, Bon Accord Mortgages and SaveOnLife.co.uk. Organically grew from kitchen table to 100+ office based employees in 6 years. Covid-19 forced a re-think of what work looks like and successfully started BuzzHubs to transform the way the other businesses operated. Resulted in higher staff retention, increased performance, higher staff engagement scores and downsized from 7000 to 1500 sq ft of office space. Passionate about delivering a better working world for as many businesses as possible where flexible working means higher productivity and happier employees.

Happy to comment from the perspective of having companies using our services to help combat loneliness in home workers particularly our well-being collection. One recipient said it was like her boss knocked on the door and gave her a hug. 

Natalie Bamford

Natalie oversees the running of Colleague Box, ensuring the team are happy and productive and champions the community aspect of the business to make sure we are giving back to the community as well looking out for small independent businesses. 

PA Media - Hybrid/remote working and loneliness

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Kate Underwood

Managing Director / HR Director at Kate Underwood HR and Training

Katie Elliott

Director at HR Katie

Dr Felicity Baker

Co-Founder/ Clinical Psychologist at Ultimate Resilience Ltd

Cheney Hamilton

CEO at The Find Your Flex Group

Natasha Maddock

Co-Founder at Events Made Simple

Martin Delany

CEO at BuzzHubs

Natalie Bamford

CEO at Colleague Box

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