Employers concerned about 'resilience' of school leavers

More than half (61%) of employers have concerns about how prepared school leavers are to start work, according to a report by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pearson.

Dorchester Collection claims HR Excellence Gold Award

Global hotel chain the Dorchester Collection walked away with four awards at the HR Excellence Awards last night, including the prestigious Gold Award.

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Yoga

If you have a spare meeting room, offering occasional yoga or stretching classes can benefit employees – mind, body and soul.

Wellbeing Weeks

A few weeks ago, staff at advertising agency Carat climbed Everest. But this didn’t involve flying employees to Nepal. Instead, as part of a half-yearly wellbeing week staff were encouraged to take...

Zzz

Well, it wasn’t going to be anything else really. “Sleep is the most devalued component of physical energy,” says Jean Gomes, chairman of the Energy Project.

UK Lags Behind

According to Kenexa’s Workforce Quality of Life Index report, published this February, the UK has some of the lowest scores in the world for employee wellbeing, languishing in the bottom 10. Shame on...

Training in resilience

Resilience has become something of a buzzword when it comes to dealing with workplace stress and increasing mental wellbeing. It all comes down to employees having the mental toughness in place to...

Culture and talent loss big concerns during M&A

HR executives fear losing top talent and culture clashes when dealing with large-scale mergers and acquisitions, according to Mercer’s 2013 Global M&A Ready Survey.

VyT scraps ambition to ‘capitalise’ staff

Negative feedback has spurred the CIPD to remove an element of Valuing Your Talent that aimed to measure staff as a balance-sheet asset. But as the project’s launch date nears, professional divisions...

Integrated reporting requires influential HR

The success of integrated reporting relies on HR taking the opportunity to ramp up its influence on strategy and value creation, experts have said.

Integrated reporting: can HR step up?

A revolution in corporate reporting is under way as organisations realise business success is about more than just an impressive balance sheet. HR has a vital role to play in integrated reporting, but...