Businesses must consider pipeline of female talent

HR director at O2 Ann Pickering said businesses must forward plan to prevent the same conversation about lack of progress on women on boards coming round every five years

Almost half apprehensive about hiring disabled workers

Mark Grimley, director of HR at disability charity Scope, explains how to accommodate disabled employees

What can we learn from HR's emerging talent?

Stephen Bevan, head of HR research development at the Institute of Employment Studies, looks to the future leaders of HR

Time to break the glass ceiling for good

The glass ceiling metaphor is perhaps unhelpful in failing to account for the variety of factors that can influence career progression – 'the glass labyrinth' might be more useful

Women on boards target not ambitious enough

The chair of the EHRC has called on the government to go further in new Hampton-Alexander review targets

Companies urged to look at female executive pipeline as women on boards progress slows

Female executive representation in the FTSE still "staggeringly low", latest Cranfield University report finds

Increased life expectancies radically redefine life stages

At a HR magazine event the authors of The 100 Year Life described the demise of 'the three-stage life'

Hot topic: Ensuring trans employees feel comfortable at work, part two

What can employers do to ensure transgender employees feel comfortable in the workplace?

Hot topic: Ensuring trans employees are comfortable at work

What can employers do to ensure transgender employees feel comfortable in the workplace?

Harnessing the skills power of diversity

If the morality of D&I isn't enough there's a skills case - it boosts creativity, lateral thinking and problem-solving

Millennials: How generational differences are shaping L&D

The 'generation gap' is important when it comes to L&D – so how can workers of all ages learn?