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How do your organisation's absence rates stack up?

2011 research by XpertHR showed that absence from work was worth 2.8% of working time, equivalent to an average of 6.5 days per employee. The cost of absence amounted to £553 per employee, when averaged across the whole workforce. Click here to complete...

Published 30 Apr 2012 1:56 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, absence management, absence, absence rates, labour turnover, absence costs

Best of the HR blogs: 13 great HR blog posts from April 2012

Wooly mammoths, The West Wing & Ron Burgundy: A baker's dozen of great HR blog posts! April 2012 has been an almost absurdly abundant month in the world of HR blogs, which is why my usual selection of 12 of the best HR blog posts has been expanded...

Published 30 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, agency workers, HR, leadership, blogging, HR 2.0, austerity measures, hrblogs, genghis khan, mad men, pinterest, ron burgundy, the west wing

Learning at Google and the role of ROI: Musings on the CIPD's learning and development conference

This year's Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development HRD conference was awash with case studies on learning and development (L&D) programmes with clear corporate goals. No light relief seminars on positive thinking or drumming for creativity...

Published 27 Apr 2012 10:16 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: training and development, Olympics, training, Google, cipd conference, evaluation, return on investment

Calling all HR students! What are your expectations of the 'real' world?

What are the plans, dreams and concerns of this year's crop of HR students as they prepare to enter the world of work? If you're just about to graduate with an HR-related degree in 2012, then leading US HR blogger Victorio Milian would love to...

Published 27 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: cipd, HR, HR 2.0, shrm, class of 2012, hr degrees, hr qualifications, hr students

Benchmarking planned redundancies in the public sector in 2012

How many employees did employers in the public sector make redundant in 2011, in response to public spending cuts? And how many employees do they expect to make redundant in 2012? Latest XpertHR Benchmarking research on public sector cuts provides extensive...

Published 26 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: public sector, redundancy, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, public spending, xperthr surveys, compulsory redundancy, voluntary redundancy

Double-dip recession: UK plunges back into recession as growth contracts by 0.2%

The double-dip recession is here. The UK economy is now back in a state of technical recession, latest official data confirmed today. The UK economy grew/contracted by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012. This is according to the preliminary estimate on...

Published 25 Apr 2012 10:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, economic indicators, gdp, economic recovery, economic outlook, double-dip recession

Benchmarking planned wage bill cuts in the public sector in 2012

Public sector cost-cutting measures are ongoing in 2012 as public spending cuts continue. Latest XpertHR Benchmarking research on cuts in the public sector provides extensive data on the extent of planned measures to reduce public sector wage bills in...

Published 24 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: public sector, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, public spending, xperthr surveys, restructuring, wage bill

Morale is a key concern for employers in the public sector in 2012

Staff morale in the public sector is deteriorating fast as public spending cuts continue, latest XpertHR Benchmarking research suggests. Three-quarters of public sector employers say staff morale worsened during 2011 as the impact of spending cuts intensified...

Published 23 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: public sector, industrial relations, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, public spending, morale and motivation, austerity measures, xperthr surveys

HR data round-up April 2012: IT pay trends; private sector pay forecasts & more!

XpertHR's HR data round-up for April 2012 looks at regional pay trends for IT professionals, private sector pay forecasts, latest additions to XpertHR Benchmarking, and also offers you the chance to download an archival equal pay survey from 1971...

Published 20 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal pay, xperthr, benchmarking, private sector pay, HR 2.0, xperthr salary surveys, xperthr benchmarkers, computer staff salary survey, pay forecast

Is the rise in part-time working 'a good thing'?

"The increase in people working part-time is a good thing." This is according to Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Chief Executive Kevin Green , writing in response to yesterday's Labour Market Statistics report from the Office...

Published 19 Apr 2012 11:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: recruitment, ons, labour market, economics, part-time workers, full-time workers

Maternity costs employers £125,000 per year

You can't really put a price on motherhood, it's what makes the world go round. Nevertheless, our new XpertHR research takes a close look at the costs of maternity leave to employers, and finds that organisations spend an average £8,546 a year...

Published 18 Apr 2012 5:36 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: recruitment, maternity leave, maternity pay, absence management, research

Prospects for economic recovery: Double-dip recession risk is finely balanced

Next week sees the publication of the eagerly-awaited preliminary estimate of economic growth in the first quarter of 2012 from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), on Wednesday 25 April 2012. With the economy currently contracting , next week's...

Published 18 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, economic indicators, gdp, economic recovery, economic outlook, economic commentary, double-dip recession

The HR data tapes: HR lifers; CIPD qualifications; workforce analytics, & more!

Each month, XpertHR's monthly data round-up post includes a selection of links to a wide range of useful blog posts on matters relating to HR data...and to HR's use of data. My pick of HR data posts from January to March 2012 I thought it would...

Published 17 Apr 2012 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: inflation, benchmarking, employee engagement, cipd, HR, social media, HR 2.0, xperthr surveys, hr data, workforce analytics; hr lifer

Care with disciplinary suspension

When is it appropriate to suspend employees who have had disciplinary allegations made against them? Employers often want to suspend employees whose conduct is being investigated as they may be concerned that the employee will repeat the alleged misconduct...

Published 16 Apr 2012 5:42 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, disciplinary procedures, suspension

Agency Workers Regs having mixed impact on employers

The latest XpertHR research finds two-thirds of employers reporting no change in their use of agencies to find temporary staff since the introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations in October 2011, although the use of agencies has fallen in more than...

Published 16 Apr 2012 11:10 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: recruitment, terms and conditions, employee relations, hr policy and strategy, business practices, agency workers, Agency Workers Regulations 2010

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