Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Author

Michael Carty

Michael Carty

I'm the editor of XpertHR benchmarking. I'm interested in all aspects of HR data - how it's collated, how it's utilised and interpreted and the stories it tells. I'm also interested in the latest information and data on all aspects of the work of HR and related disciplines (whether to do with employment or economics) around the world – and how social media enable HR information and debate to spread and evolve across geographic boundaries. I’ve been part of the XpertHR team since 20 August 2001, working on the site in a wide variety of editorial roles as it expanded from its unnamed, pre-launch incarnation to the HR information powerhouse it is today. Further back, I worked as a writer at Incomes Data Services (IDS), and before that did time in research and writing roles at a banking consultancy in the City of London and at the Open University Business School.

    • Discontinuous shared parental leave
    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave

    Shared parental leave: how does your organisation compare?

    by Michael Carty 23 Feb 2015
    by Michael Carty 23 Feb 2015

    Is your organisation fully prepared for shared parental leave? XpertHR is conducting a short benchmarking survey on how employers plan...

    • Careers in HR
    • CIPD
    • The HR profession

    HR directors need to up their game on data and social media

    by Michael Carty 13 Jan 2015
    by Michael Carty 13 Jan 2015

    HR directors must focus on developing their skills in data, analytics and social media to “future-proof” their careers, according to...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    Disability discrimination: many employers fail to ask about reasonable adjustments

    by Michael Carty 26 Nov 2014
    by Michael Carty 26 Nov 2014

    Some private-sector employers could be at risk of discriminating against disabled job applicants by failing to ask about reasonable adjustments,...

    • Mobile recruitment

    Mobile recruitment: a missed opportunity for employers?

    by Michael Carty 4 Nov 2014
    by Michael Carty 4 Nov 2014

    Employers are failing to take advantage of the opportunity to access job candidates via mobile platforms, new research from Personnel...

    • Graduates
    • Pay & benefits

    Graduates suffer six-year freeze in starting salaries

    by Michael Carty 1 Sep 2014
    by Michael Carty 1 Sep 2014

    UK employers have frozen graduate starting salaries for a sixth consecutive year, according to the latest XpertHR Benchmarking research on...

    • Vexatious claims
    • Employment tribunals
    • Trade unions

    Employment tribunal fees “severely limit” workers’ access to justice

    by Michael Carty 29 Jul 2014
    by Michael Carty 29 Jul 2014

    The introduction of employment tribunal fees has “severely limited access to justice for workers”, with worrying consequences for the future...

    • People analytics

    Big data: HR needs to stop reporting and start predicting

    by Michael Carty 9 Jul 2014
    by Michael Carty 9 Jul 2014

    Big data offers HR some major opportunities to increase its strategic influence within the organisation and add value to its...

    • Leave

    Does your organisation make a special case for special leave?

    by Michael Carty 11 Jun 2014
    by Michael Carty 11 Jun 2014

    What does your organisation do when employees request less straightforward forms of leave? XpertHR is conducting a short Benchmarking survey...

    • Flexible working

    Flexible working for all: what does HR think?

    by Michael Carty 5 Jun 2014
    by Michael Carty 5 Jun 2014

    A majority of HR professionals support flexible working for all employees in principle, according to XpertHR research, but some are...

    • Compassionate leave

    Compassionate leave policies beneficial for employers and employees

    by Michael Carty 6 May 2014
    by Michael Carty 6 May 2014

    Adopting a formal compassionate leave policy brings clear benefits both to employees going through difficult times and their employers, according...

    • Personnel Today

    Flexible working requests for all: are you prepared?

    by Michael Carty 2 May 2014
    by Michael Carty 2 May 2014

    XpertHR is conducting a short benchmarking survey on the impact of the extension of the right to request flexible working...

    • CIPD
    • Zero hours
    • Employment contracts

    Zero hours consultation “flawed” – John Philpott

    by Michael Carty 11 Mar 2014
    by Michael Carty 11 Mar 2014

    Business secretary Vince Cable’s consultation on zero hours contracts is “timid” and “flawed,” according to John Philpott, former chief economics...

Newer Posts
Older Posts

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+