HR directors have to redefine HR to become a profit centre rather than a cost centre in business. Otherwise, the future of HR could lie outside HR departments or even outside business, said Matthew...

Business-to-business trade exchange Bartercard, which allows companies to preserve cash resources by trading goods and services with other members, is to create 400 jobs in the UK.

Skills shortages are impacting on the growth of many UK businesses in the HR sector, according to a new report from recruiter Reed UK, which canvassed the views of 1,500 employers and employees.

Something unusual is happening in business circles. The gurus in the think tanks and faculties that largely determine the way in which business management is taught, after decades of false steps and...

A parliamentary report published yesterday has questioned the length and quality of many apprenticeships. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that a fifth of the schemes last six months or less...

There was a 15.2% decrease in the use of temporary labour across the public sector in the first quarter of 2012, when compared to the same time in 2011, according to the Comensura Government Index.

Greg Smith’s very public disillusionment with his employer, Goldman Sachs, after resigning using a column in the New York Times illustrates once more there is a serious difference between ‘rhetoric...

In parliamentary debate yesterday, at the session called specially to discuss the urban unrest of the past week, prime minister David Cameron was drawn into commenting on the role of HR in the police....

There I was, puffing and panting around Ladywell Park in Lewisham in the name of keeping fit on Monday night, when I saw what looked like a line of worker ants coming up the path. They weren’t ants,...

HR hasn’t got much longer to go, as HR directors are struggling to work to a model that no longer exists. It needs to reinvent itself, and fast. That was the revelation Graham White (pictured), HR...

Invariably in business, you come across an individual who stands out from the crowd. They are usually distinctive in their chosen profession and attractive to clients and work referrers, the ones...

Workstations that rise or fall according to whether you want to sit or stand at your tasks, pods that bring peace to a noisy office, a reception in the middle of the office so it is equidistant from...