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...
Flexible working: are we moving in the right direction?
New research underlines how businesses must learn to properly engage flexible workers.
Netherlands top in Europe for automation readiness
UK is fourth but workers are battling slow tech that is eroding productivity.
‘Lack of leadership talent holding back large businesses’
Leadership instability is blighting many top businesses, with a large minority of HR chiefs reporting difficulties in developing effective senior leaders.
‘Toxic, bullying culture’ and lack of diversity in fire services
Some of England’s fire and rescue services have a 'toxic, bullying culture' and a lack of diversity, inspectors have found.
Why cultural training is vital for overseas assignments
Overseas projects often fail when employees and their families are not prepared for life abroad. Janette Hiscock looks at why...
British Airways and Nesta to headline Employee Benefits Connect 2020
Air travel organisation British Airways and innovation foundation Nesta will deliver the two keynote sessions at Employee Benefits Connect 2020....
Talent management
Personnel Today Awards 2019: Fresh Direct delivers Talent Management Award
Short-listed organisations that have adopted a particularly proactive and imaginative approach to talent management.
Amazon to deliver keynote address at Employee Benefits Live 2019
Ben Farmer (pictured), head of HR, UK corporate, at global retail and technology organisation Amazon, will deliver a keynote address...
New teachers to receive £6,000 boost to attract the ‘best’
Starting salaries for teachers will reach as much as £30,000 by the 2022-23 academic year under a range of plans announced today.
Managing change
How can HR be agile in 2020?
'Agile' has been around as an approach for decades in software development, but is spreading through organisations as they realise that all teams would benefit from working less rigidly.
RB opens £200m innovation hub in Hull
Health and hygiene supplier RB, formerly Reckitt Benckiser, today opens a £200m centre in Hull as a “magnet” for the best scientific talent with 200 new jobs created.
Personnel Today Awards 2019: Great Western Railway on track with Managing Change Award
Train operator Great Western Railway got the green signal from the Personnel Today Awards 2019 judges, bagging the Managing Change...
Corporate social responsibility
Could your HR policies be stifling compassion?
As teams return to work and many employees continue to juggle heavy work demands with personal stress, how can HR...
Tesco’s China Christmas story reveals modern slavery vulnerability
The vulnerability of UK supermarkets’ supply chains to inhumane labour practices has once again been demonstrated by the news that...
Businesses find themselves in modern slavery limbo
With legal action hovering over British American Tobacco, and G4S shares being blacklisted by an investment fund, it’s clear that...
Outsourcing
Three hundred jobs lost at John Lewis call centre
More than 300 jobs at an outsourced John Lewis customer contact centre have been culled as the retailer attempts to...
MyPayrollHR boss charged with $70m bank fraud
Michael Mann, chief executive of MyPayrollHR, has been arrested and charged with fraud. Three weeks ago, the New York payroll provider ceased trading...
Payroll provider withdraws wages from thousands of clients’ employees
Is there anything a company can do worse than failing to pay its employees? Thousands of employees in the US have found there is
