We have all had conversations with friends complaining about work. But when a person really hates their job, it can make an enormous difference to their wellbeing. More often than not, it is workplace culture that brings employees down, causing increasingly negative feelings that spread from work into every aspect of life. And it is [...]

It feels like we’ve only just come to the end of a long summer but the Christmas adverts have already started to crop up. With the festive period just two months away, there is one key event that many of us look forward to and dread in equal measure – the office Christmas party. As [...]

Thanks to the Western world’s obsession with social media, conflict is now never more than a click away. Although social media may once have been intended for connection and cohesion, platforms like Facebook and Twitter have fast developed into online battlegrounds where insults are frequently traded over even the most inoffensive content. Thousands of accounts [...]

Everyone who’s ever worked in an office knows that the desk is the nemesis of a healthy work environment. It’s no coincidence that the word comes from the Italian word for butcher’s table because who hasn’t felt like they’re on the chopping block when sitting at their desk all day without a break. Chained to [...]

You will no doubt have seen the news that Thomas Cook has entered compulsory liquidation and left more than 150,000 holidaymakers stranded abroad. After 178 years in business, the firm’s collapse has triggered the largest ever peacetime repatriation. Even though the government has already brought thousands of Thomas Cook customers home, thousands more remain trapped [...]

We are proud to offer a range of work experience and internship opportunities across the Vintage brands to those interested in and passionate about a career in financial services. We’ve welcomed ambitious and entrepreneurial interns, many of whom are studying for degrees in accounting, business, economics, banking and mathematics. As well as a supportive and [...]

We are all familiar with that situation where you have a nagging health issue or sudden onset of symptoms and the first port of call is your GP. But for many of us, that feeling comes with an inevitable sense of dread as the battle to get an appointment begins. It’s not uncommon for patients [...]

We have reached that time of the year again. That time when all your co-workers gather around the water cooler daily to ruminate on the latest juicy scoop in reality TV. When your friends feverishly discuss the fresh scandals broadcast nightly to the country, dropping names as if they were talking about people in your [...]

Zac Hartnell, the Business Development Professional for Vintage Health will be offering insight into workplace stress and how companies should take it more seriously; there’s a wider epidemic that’s continuously being discussed but the action to change is continuously being ignored. What do we do as a business to help your employees with stress? We [...]

Every New Year brings with it that same ambitious feeling to set new goals for the next 12 months. This makes it an important time to review your financial portfolio and adjust your goals accordingly. Workplace Benefit Insights For workplaces focused on recruitment and retention in the busy January period, it would be wise to [...]