Operational Efficiency

Limeade CPO: Navigating surveillance and trust in remote workers

With teams no longer in the office, it can be tempting for managers to want to apply new technologies to survey their employee’s performance

What key trends must HR adopt to keep up with the changing recruitment industry?

The shift to remote working as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown has impacted almost every single industry. But especially for HR, the lockdown and closing of businesses has meant every aspect of...

Majority of HR to encourage remote working post lockdown

?Two thirds (67%) of UK chief HR officers plan to encourage employees to work remotely on a regular basis after lockdown.

Disadvantaged areas see disproportionate amount of job seekers per vacancy

Twenty unemployed people are chasing every vacancy in disadvantaged areas of the UK, up from around four people per vacancy before the coronavirus hit.

Eco-conscious workers opting for less business travel

Nearly half of UK workers (48%) want to reduce their business travel due to environmental concerns.

Six in 10 families on Universal Credit forced into debt due to COVID-19

Nearly two thirds of families claiming Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit have had to borrow money due to increased financial pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic

Inappropriate behaviour - when the past is not left in the past

The news that Stephen Jones, head of UK Finance, has quit over "thoroughly unpleasant" personal comments he made in 2008 about financier Amanda Staveley, is a stark reminder to executives that their...

Remote working putting team cohesion at risk, study finds

The bond between team members, trust and information sharing have come out as the top three areas most at risk by remote working.

UK job postings rise slowly

Job postings in the UK have risen slowly over the past four weeks to almost 963,000 in the first week of June.

New ONS figures reveal large UK job losses during coronavirus pandemic

The number of workers on UK payroll has reduced by more than 612,000 between March and May as impacts of the coronavirus pandemic set in.

Don’t expect a flexible work revolution

Human beings are around three million years old, in one form or another. Sophisticated as we like to think we are, much of our behaviour follows patterns that have evolved over those three million...

Recruitment and assessment: what will the future look like post-coronavirus?

We’ve all had to adapt in recent months. For many, much of our work has moved online and working from home has become the norm for some professions.