One of the things that is most important to the eXPD8 IT department is that all of our field users have a working mobile device, whether it is a tablet or a smartphone. I’ve worked in the IT department for nearly 5 years and must have set up at least 500 tablets for the lovely field team, … Continue reading A Day In The Life Of A Mobile Device

This is the third year that eXPD8 has reported on gender pay, and the second time we have reported under the Government’s reporting requirements.  The numbers shown below are as submitted to the government website, with last year’s submission alongside for comparison. Hourly Pay Gaps The headline numbers quoted with regard to gender pay are … Continue reading eXPD8 release Gender pay gap reporting as at April 2018

15 years ago today, eXPD8 began trading! When we first took to the stores all those years ago, we just offered essential merchandising services, now we have an expert body of colleagues offering everything from essential merchandising services to detailed product auditing, retail data analytics, field marketing compliance, FSDU set ups, plus everything else in between; … Continue reading 15 Years of being Best in Field

At eXPD8 we pride ourselves on keeping up-to-date with emerging retail trends and innovation, so when Europe’s largest retail solutions event opened their doors, we just had to be there!  Armed with our official show previews, we travelled to London to get amongst the 380+ exhibitors at the Retail Design Expo which also included suppliers … Continue reading My highlights from the Retail Design Expo 2018

Mental Health Awareness Week 14th to the 20th of May 2018 is Mental Health Awareness week and what better time to discuss openly, the issues surrounding Mental Health problems. Many people reading this will have experienced a period of mental ill health or supported somebody close to them through it. And in doing so would … Continue reading eXPD8 promotes Mental Health Awareness

At eXPD8 we love everything “Tech” related – from our A* devices out in the field allowing clients instant data share and timely updates on launch day to our trendy data analyst platforms to highlight various sales analysis stats for our clients. In addition, we are the eyes, ears and overall key players for technology … Continue reading eXPD8 knows what’s hot in “Tech” for 2018

Since its launch 5 years ago auto-enrolment has dramatically altered the face of workplace pensions and has managed to successfully change the public perception of saving. Before the introduction of auto enrolment, just 55% of UK employees were actively saving into a workplace pension. By March 2016, this figure had rose to 78%. This needed … Continue reading Increases to auto-enrolment pension contribution rates

Did you know, the average full time working person spends 50% of their waking hours at work?  With so much time spent at work, do you want more for your employees? A better work life balance, a healthier workforce, less stress, more fun, lower absence rates? We did, so we set up “Wellbeing@1BSQ”, our company … Continue reading 6 steps to create an awesome office wellness program

Becoming a Disability Confident employer means we are making the most of the talents disabled people can bring to our company and it’s something that is close to my heart. Back in 2002 the concept of eXPD8 Ltd was born. My business partner Peter and I had spent long enough in corporate life and we … Continue reading Why becoming ‘Disability Confident’ means so much to me and eXPD8