Letters

While it's encouraging that UK employers are 'rising to the challenge of informing and consulting employees' (News analysis, Personnel Today, 11 October), it still concerns me that staff involvement has become a compliance rather than a business issue

Your news story 'Desperate employers fear age of discontent', (Personnel Today, 11 October) highlights the fact that imminent changes are indeed a cause for concern. But they also represent an opportunity

Richard Scase's comment that better work-life balance means accepting lower economic growth is too simplistic (Personnel Today, 11 October)

The current conflict between the 'navel-gazers' and pragmatic practitioners played out in your recent letters pages is unnecessary

Ian Foster ('Do voluntary work if you're not about helping the business', Letters, Personnel Today, 4 October) is correct that the efforts of HR professionals should be focused on producing measurable performance improvements in their organisation

Ruth Spellman is absolutely correct in her assertion that "it has got to be possible to come up with some [people] metrics"

You were right to warn readers about the deadline for Bacstel-IP payments in your news story on 27 September.

HR Hartley, you're the first person, other than myself, that I have seen to publicly propose the return of National Service

I am surprised at Brendan Barber's comments about office lechers and gropers and the new rules "making life more bearable for thousands of women"

I was interested in your news story on the debate about private and public organisations

I was pleased to read your news story highlighting bullying in the NHS (Personnel Today, 27 September)

The union Amicus has repeatedly surveyed members in the NHS in response to persistent complaints of bullying in the workplace (Personnel Today, 27 September)

I read the feature on Nick Leeson (Rogue to recovery, Personnel Today, 20 September) with great interest as my mother was an employee of Barings Bank at the time of its collapse

As an HR manager in a local authority that has implemented single status and job evaluation, I was interested to read your news analysis 'Single-status straightjacket' (Personnel Today, 13 September)

Barry Scarr is exasperated at accountants like him being labelled 'bean counters' by Personnel Today (Letters, Personnel Today, 27 September)