The need for more support at work for women going through the menopause

By ILX Team | 2 March 2022

Every woman will experience menopause and approximately 1 in 4 will experience debilitating symptoms. The menopause occurs at the end of reproductive years and can have both physical and mental effects. Generally occurring between ages 45 to 55, with symptoms lasting around four years. Around 75%...

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Diversity & inclusion at work podcast series – a producer’s perspective

By ILX Team | 20 October 2021

Hello! My name is Alice – I’m a Senior Marketing Executive at ILX, and I produce our podcast series. In May, we launched our ‘ Diversity & Inclusion at work ’ series, which focused on some of the many issues affecting workplaces today. When we first decided as a company to dedicate a whole...

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Lessons in combating workplace stress from top companies: Bumble, Lloyds, Google and more

By ILX Team | 2 August 2021

Organisations have had to cope with a crisis beyond COVID-19 in recent months. The crisis of burnout has been sweeping employees, causing low moods, poor performance, depression, and time off work. Just as workplaces have been revolutionised at the hands of the pandemic, they now too must overhau...

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Workplace burnout: Recognising the signs

By ILX Team | 14 December 2020

Project professionals are notorious for remaining calm under pressure. They may work long hours, but they pride themselves on perfectionism. Generally speaking, it takes a lot for a project manager to become visibly stressed, making it even more challenging to notice when they are experiencing burno...

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Diversity & inclusion at ILX: where we are now

By ILX Team | 11 November 2020

Back in the summer we spoke out on the subject of “Black Lives Matter”, the first time that we’d done something like that. And for us, that was just the start… over the past few months here at ILX, we’ve been working on our approach to diversity and inclusion, and looking at the positive changes we...

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How to prioritise your team’s wellbeing

By ILX Team | 28 April 2020

Communication, management and workplace culture have been cited as three of the top reasons why people leave their job. The poor status of each of these factors can have such a detrimental effect on employee’s wellbeing that it causes them to up and leave. Conversely, taking care of your team’s p...

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Happy International Women’s Day from ILX!

By ILX Team | 8 March 2018

International Women’s Day is a wonderful opportunity to recognise (and celebrate!) the work, lives struggles and achievements of women around the world. Project Management has been a typically male-dominated role since its infancy, and even today the ratio still sits at 70:30. However, this is chang...

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