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With the rising cost of living, employees are now less likely to feel like work is meeting their fundamental needs, but beyond pay rises, there are things employers can do to change this, according to a workplace consultant.

"If people don't have their baseline of needs met, their psychological safety and their physiological safety, we're in fight, flight, freeze mode... Our brains are like a computer system – anything that's like a worry for us or a stressor for us, is chewing up the RAM and the brain's processing ability, which doesn't allow us to step forward and do our best work," Vare founder Jade Green tells HR Daily.

Daily stressors such as work-life balance, childcare, and struggling to make ends meet, can lead to burnout and a dip in peak performance for employees; therefore, Green suggests it's crucial to go back to basics, looking at employees' fundamental needs and how the organisation can help meet them...