Workforce planning, also commonly known as “succession planning” is the process whereby employers ensure that it has enough people with the right skills and leadership potential to step into business-critical positions at the right time.
Poor workforce planning by NHS HR functions has led to a rise in medical staff vacancies, unions and experts have...
BT has launched an HR consultancy service to help spread best-practice, having increased productivity by 20% and reduced absenteeism by...
Employers must ensure that they remain visible to graduates during the recession – even if they are not hiring, leading...
More than 70,000 HMRC staff are due to begin an overtime ban today (6 July), in a bid to expose...
By Gill Hibberd, president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association
Google has come up with an algorithm to work out which of its employees feel under-used and are most likely...
MI5 did not have enough staff to adequately follow up terrorist leads in the run-up to the 7 July bombings...
Thousands of fully-trained police officers need to be recruited over the next three years if forces are to meet the...
Swine flu is here in the UK, and no-one is sure how widely it will spread, and how severely it will strike.There were three flu...
Government plans to create a million ‘green’ jobs were dealt a fresh blow yesterday after a UK wind power firm...
A campaign group has urged the government to step up efforts to encourage more job shares and part-time working hours...
Employees must leave their trades union or risk losing their jobs, a car transport firm has warned.Car logistics company Autologic...
Standards are slipping at HM Revenue & Customs as a depleted workforce struggles to hit targets.An HMRC insider, speaking to...
Until the beginning of this month, recruitment agencies did not need to charge VAT on the wages of temporary workers...
The UK’s opt-out of the Working Time Directive remains in place for now, after talks in Brussels broke up without...
