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Sheila Attwood

Sheila Attwood

Sheila Attwood is Senior Content Manager, Data and HR Insights at Brightmine. She has more than 20 years' experience of working in a research and editorial capacity in a publishing environment, with a focus on the labour market, reward, industrial relations and HR practice. Sheila leads the team that is responsible for the HR and reward content on Brightmine, with a key responsibility for the pay settlement tracking service. She is an expert on company pay awards and is regularly called upon to appear in the broadcast and print media to comment on the level of increase in pay rates.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    The future of apprenticeships: Why higher wages are good for business

    by Sheila Attwood 14 Feb 2025
    by Sheila Attwood 14 Feb 2025

    Sheila Attwood discusses upcoming changes to apprenticeships and the implications on employers.

    • Case law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Six steps to embedding a diversity and inclusion strategy

    by Sheila Attwood 20 Jul 2021
    by Sheila Attwood 20 Jul 2021

    Having a diverse and inclusive workplace is important not only ethically but also for improving employee morale, boosting innovation and...

    • Benefits
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pay settlements

    Four ways to perfect your performance-related pay scheme

    by Sheila Attwood 7 Sep 2016
    by Sheila Attwood 7 Sep 2016

    Almost a quarter of pay awards each year are based on a measure of employee performance. Sheila Attwood looks at...

    • Benefits
    • Employee engagement
    • Incentives

    Making recognition part of your culture

    by Sheila Attwood 24 Feb 2016
    by Sheila Attwood 24 Feb 2016

    A new XpertHR guide to employee recognition looks at the importance of praising people for what they’ve achieved. Sheila Attwood...

    • National living wage
    • Living Wage
    • Salary surveys

    National living wage could cost charities £10m

    by Sheila Attwood 2 Nov 2015
    by Sheila Attwood 2 Nov 2015

    Charities will have to spend more than £3 million bringing their staff up to the new national living wage rate...

    • Pay settlements

    Employers forecast pay rises of 2% in 2016

    by Sheila Attwood 23 Oct 2015
    by Sheila Attwood 23 Oct 2015

    Private-sector employers are expecting to increase employees’ pay by just 2% during the next year, the same rate of increase...

    • Personnel Today

    Take part in our pay forecast research

    by Sheila Attwood 21 Aug 2015
    by Sheila Attwood 21 Aug 2015

    Pay award levels recorded by XpertHR have been low for the best part of seven years now, but is this...

    • Health and safety
    • Pay & benefits

    Employers playing it safe with health and safety professionals’ pay

    by Sheila Attwood 15 May 2015
    by Sheila Attwood 15 May 2015

    The median pay rise for health and safety professionals in 2014 was just 1%, according to a survey from Health...

    • Employee relations
    • Collective bargaining
    • Trade unions

    Six steps to negotiating terms and conditions with a trade union

    by Sheila Attwood 13 May 2015
    by Sheila Attwood 13 May 2015

    Any negotiation with a trade union should aim to achieve a mutually acceptable outcome. But when making changes to employees’...

    • Bonuses
    • Pay & benefits

    Bonuses: are you going to get one?

    by Sheila Attwood 1 Apr 2015
    by Sheila Attwood 1 Apr 2015

    Four out of 10 employees (37.8%) were paid a bonus in 2014. The value of bonuses paid, both in monetary...

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    • Gender pay gap
    • Pay & benefits

    Gender pay gap: Women’s pay slowly catching up

    by Sheila Attwood 21 Nov 2014
    by Sheila Attwood 21 Nov 2014

    The gender pay gap is closing, but earnings growth has yet to catch up with inflation, the latest wage data...

    • Public sector
    • Pay & benefits
    • Minimum wage

    Winners and losers revealed in annual review of basic pay awards

    by Sheila Attwood 26 Sep 2014
    by Sheila Attwood 26 Sep 2014

    The level of pay rises across the economy has been low for some time. The latest figures from pay analysts...

    • Benefits
    • Flexible benefits
    • Pay & benefits

    Employers favour flexibility in benefits packages

    by Sheila Attwood 21 Aug 2014
    by Sheila Attwood 21 Aug 2014

    Research by XpertHR found that the most popular way of flexing the benefits package is to offer benefits on a salary-sacrifice basis.

    • Pay & benefits
    • Pay settlements

    Are wages set to rise faster in 2015?

    by Sheila Attwood 13 Aug 2014
    by Sheila Attwood 13 Aug 2014

    The latest figures show that employers are facing dilemmas over pay, as wage rises fail to keep track with economic...

    • Pay & benefits
    • Health insurance
    • Healthcare cash plans

    Healthcare tops list of employer-provided benefits

    by Sheila Attwood 12 Aug 2014
    by Sheila Attwood 12 Aug 2014

    Health-related benefits feature heavily in the most common benefits provided by employers, a survey of 327 organisations' benefits packages conducted by XpertHR has found.

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