HR practice

British employees are working 215.8 hours of overtime every year, with more than two in five (42%) doing so for free.

The bank has raised its minimum office attendance requirement to three days a week, up from two days a week.

Almost all federal employees have until 6 February to decide whether to resign, as Donald Trump reduces government headcount.

Gig economy apps Temper and YoungOnes warned they may be operating illegally by providing "freelance" workers to business.

Two hundred UK companies have now signed up for a permanent four-day working week, according to the 4 Day Week Foundation.

Employers' questions on pay, attendance and childcare that are likely to arise during severe weather.

There is a positive link between workplace attendance and wellbeing, with three or four times a week being the ideal number of in-office days.

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A museum worker whose social media posts were littered with typos was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has found.

Lord Stuart Rose, former boss of Asda and Marks & Spencer, has decried working from home as 'not doing proper work'.

MPs will table amendment for Employment Rights Bill to include statutory bereavement leave for workers who suffer a miscarriage.

Only a tiny proportion of employers still enforce ‘strict’ dress codes, according to research from Brightmine.
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Facebook owner Meta has told staff it will cut around 5% of its global workforce, and will use the company’s performance management system to do so.

James Watt says UK is ‘one of the world’s least work-oriented countries’, in defence of his criticism of work-life balance.

The CIPD is urging employers to offer flexible working provisions as more weather warnings are issued across the UK.