Flexible working

HR needs to stay on top of the risks that come attached to employees choosing to work from ‘home’ from beyond the UK. Nick Hine explains why.

Consulting firm PwC has launched a post-Covid working strategy that includes a Friday lunchtime finish during the summer months.

ON-DEMAND | Sinead Sharpe and Ben Thompson join Rob Moss to look at how positive workplace culture can effect change.

Fruit and snack hampers were not a company policy but were paid for by managers themselves.

Faced with financial pressures, reducing headcount seems the logical next step. But redundancy carries its own direct and hidden costs, and there are alternatives …

Santander has announced it is to close 111 branches across the UK, with 840 staff being affected by the closures.

Nationwide is to allow 13,000 of its 18,000 employees to decide where they work.

Organisations appear to be scrapping, or rethinking, their plans to cut their use of office space post-pandemic, according to KPMG.

Over half of UK employees travelled to work last week for the first time since June 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Lastminute.com has made use of Workplace by Facebook for a number of communication initiatives.

A global services solutions firm has touched base with Personnel Today with an update on the use of business jargon in the UK.

ON-DEMAND |
Phil Vickers, HRD at Charles Tyrwhitt, and Andrew Stonehill-Brooks, director of HR at DocuSign, join Rob Moss.

BP has announced a new hybrid working model for when lockdown restrictions are lifted.

Liz Truss urges employers to boost flexible working as research finds significant uplift in applications for roles that advertise it.

ON DEMAND | HR professional, coach and lecturer Gemma Dale explains how HR can influence the future of the workplace and working patterns...