Automation
City firms ‘must coordinate skills development to avoid talent shortages’
Every role in the financial services sector will be affected by automation and...
Five ways HR is changing and how people leaders can get ahead (webinar)
Wednesday 4 March 2020, 2:00pm GMT
Are you equipped with the skills needed to lead a people team of the...
Netherlands top in Europe for automation readiness
UK is fourth but workers are battling slow tech that is eroding productivity.
Productivity continues to be outpaced by wage growth
The Office for National Statistics has published the latest productivity figures for the UK showing that output per hour rose...
L&D complacency risks UK firms’ competitiveness with global counterparts
Employers in the UK risk losing talent to organisations in emerging economies if they do not increase investment in learning...
HR most likely to be reaping automation benefits
HR professionals are more likely to be experiencing the benefits of automation in their roles than any other professional in...
Amazon opens its doors to public scrutiny
EXCLUSIVE | To improve perceptions of its warehouses' working environment, the online giant is inviting the public in to show what conditions are really like.
UNLEASH 2019: Digital transformation is ‘not about automation’
Digital transformation involves a complete rethink of the way an organisation operates and is not simply about technology, PepsiCo’s former...
Retraining service expanded into new regions
The government has expanded access to its Get Help to Retrain service, which is designed to support the reskilling of...
Staff ‘sabotaging’ robot co-workers, study finds
Employees are “sabotaging” robots in their workplaces because of fears they will replace their jobs, researchers have found.
According to...
Future of work to be explored at UNLEASH 2019
It is now just under a month to go until the annual UNLEASH World Conference & Expo in Paris, where...
Robots and automation: UK lags behind G7
Entire regions of the UK face being left behind and British businesses could find themselves being uncompetitive, unless the government...
Automation and AI: how it will actually affect the workplace
Is there any consensus over the effects of the spread of AI over the next few years and is HR well placed to play its part in reshaping the workforce?
Automation and AI: Brian Kropp on cost savings, ethics and inequality
Alongside Adam McCulloch’s in-depth report into the impact of AI and automation on the workplace, Brian Kropp, group vice president,...
Future skills framework to be developed
A framework for “essential” skills – such as teamwork, presenting and problem-solving – will be developed by a new task...
