How to manage a workforce you’ve never met

With businesses outsourcing an increasing number of their services to freelancers, the result can often mean working alongside several, or in some cases, an entire group of colleagues you’ve never...

Unemployment rises as pay growth slows to its lowest rate since records began

The number of unemployed people in the UK has risen to 2.52 million, Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal.

Gen Y employees seek flexible independent working over traditional corporate jobs, study reveals

Most young people (84%) in traditional corporate jobs want to quit in favour of more flexible independent working, a study published today has found.

Increase in the world's top talent moving to the UK, study finds

The UK is the second most attractive country in the world, after the United States, for high-flying professionals to move to.

Youth unemployment and skills shortages are unacceptable, says skills minister

The mass skills shortages that have driven unemployment among young people above one million, have been condemned by skills minister, Matthew Hancock (pictured).

Employment growth continues but applicants face increased competition for jobs, CIPD research reveals

Employment growth is set to continue in 2013 but applicants face increasingly stiff competition for jobs, according to research published today by the CIPD.

SMEs offered cash incentives to employ more military reservists

Small businesses are to be offered cash incentives to encourage them to hire members of the military reserves, defence secretary Phillip Hammond has announced.

Should employers vet the social media accounts of potential employees?

Last month Kent police’s new youth police and crime commissioner, Paris Brown, was pressured into stepping down a week after being hired. The reason: the 17-year-old had tweeted homophobic and racist...

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Global youth unemployment “close to crisis peak” says ILO

Young people are increasingly giving up on looking for employment as the global youth unemployment rate reaches “crisis peak”, a new report by UN agency the International Labour Officer has warned.

A brighter future with HRjobs.co.uk: HR magazine's new job site

HR magazine has taken its first foray in the jobs market with the launch of HRjobs.co.uk.

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Zero-hours contracts and the rise of the disengaged workforce

In April 2013, results from the Workplace Employment Relations Study highlighted a dramatic rise in zero-hours contracts for UK workers.

Employers yet to stage could face a "data headache" around auto-enrolment, says CEO Now Pensions

Smaller companies yet to stage for auto-enrolment are facing "big problems" if their HR departments haven't properly prepared and have inaccurate data, CEO at Now Pensions Morten Nilsson has said.