Three quarters (75%) of UK employers admitted to hiring a candidate with strong technical skills who later underperformed due to a lack of soft skills and cultural alignment, according to research...
Change, they say, is the one constant, in business and in life. And it’s an area that HR leaders, as transformation specialists, are well used to navigating and thriving within.
A former worker on the railway project HS2 has won £319,070.95 after being unfairly dismissed for accusing his bosses of disguising the true price of the delayed railway project, according to a...
Disengaged managers are leading disengaged teams. Rebuilding starts through leadership, coaching and motivation.
A former chef has won £13,455 after an argument she had at work in front of customers was attributed to symptoms of anxiety, depression and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
It's not just large companies which sometimes struggle with mental health issues among their staff.
A former chef has won £13,455 after an argument she had at work in front of customers was attributed to symptoms of anxiety, depression and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
A British Airways cabin crew member has gone viral after being discovered dancing naked in a business class toilet mid-shift, according to The Independent’s report of the incident yesterday (2 June).
The Employment Rights Bill is set to change how employers deal with redundancies. What’s on the horizon, and how can HR prepare to help organisations get redundancies right? Simon Kent reports.
By embracing Smart work design, HR leaders can proactively create roles that people thrive in. Here’s why it matters.
The number of working days lost to sickness and injury in the UK in 2024 was 148.9m, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data published on Wednesday (4 June).
Do HR leaders have a responsibility to draw attention to the ethnicity pay gap? If so, how? As organiser of the University of East London (UEL)’s first Ethnicity Pay Gap Conference, Jummy Okoya shares...
We’ve heard a lot about pay transparency over the past couple of years, ramped up since the EU Pay Transparency Directive was passed in June 2023. Sat in the UK, it’s easy to dismiss this noise as...
Half of participants in the CIPD Trust’s Aspiring HR Directors (HRD) programme, designed to support HR high-performers from underrepresented backgrounds, have been promoted to senior roles since the...
A property lawyer was struck off for holding three jobs at once while working remotely.
Half (52%) of UK employees in middle manager roles and below don’t see management as an aspirational career path, research has revealed.
Large language model technology has supercharged Morson Group’s productivity gains, as Dan Cave discovered.
The cost of living may again become a problem this year, representing yet another challenge for employers.
Economic uncertainty has illustrated the need for HR departments to support employees’ financial wellbeing.
The employer-employee relationship is one of the most important financial relationships. With the recent period of high inflation and ongoing economic uncertainty, many workers find themselves in...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget has gone down poorly with employment experts, who have criticised its narrow focus on personal tax cuts and “bland and beige” policies.
