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Nationwide is to analyse its employee and customer surveys and business performance figures to find which factors affecting staff satisfaction have the biggest impact on the bottom line. Tony Houchen, …
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This week’s news in brief IT recruitment falls Recruitment in the IT industry has fallen by 40 per cent as the country begins to feel the effect of the high-tech …
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Increasing use of the Internet and e-mail is forcing employees to work longer hours and disrupting their work-life balance, a leading expert claimed. Michel Syrett, work-life balance consultant and academic, …
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Katie Hawkins reports on the debates at the fourth employers’ law briefing in London Senior managers should embrace work-life balance practices to convince staff of the benefits, the HR director …
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UK’s HR staff follow the most direct route to board membership
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Some HR staff in the US are getting so desperate they are touring places of worship to secure new staff. But research by the SHRM has found that the most …
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National Lottery organiser Camelot is carrying out a pay benchmarking exercise to ensure its employees are being well rewarded compared with staff in similar businesses. Dianne Thompson, Camelot’s chief executive, …
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The HR function faces severe cutbacks in the future if it is not respected by the board, warned a leading management school director. Andrew Kakabadse, deputy director of the Cranfield …
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Web technology and the influence of dotcoms on business were the developments that fuelled much of the speeches in this year’s conference, writes Noel O’Reilly. The biggest name on the …
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Noon: intranets will eventually eclipse paper-based delivery
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There are few things more annoying than waiting for unwanted animations or banner ads to download on a website when you’re in a hurry. And while some web animation can …
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Women stand to benefit this decade by exploiting their broad skills set
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In an age of work-life balance policies, setting up a desk at home can seem to be the ideal solution. But organisations must provide support to staff outside the main site – not just leave them to get on with it
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Edited by Richard Staines
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IBM has more than halved its HR costs through a complete overhaul of its policies and by harnessing the power of e-technology. Ray Leighton, e-HR executive at IBM, said the …