Operational Efficiency

Mental health support for male employees

Men are often described as a ‘hard to help’ group in relation to engagement with health issues

Plugging the cyber skills gap with military veterans

On the cyber security frontline, veterans could play a key role in plugging the skills gap

Getting staff to save for retirement

The next pensions challenge is getting staff to save enough for a comfortable future. Here's five ways HR can engage them to do so

Sadiq Khan reveals plans to support working parents of premature babies

The mayor of London has announced plans to introduce premature and neonatal leave at City Hall, and has called on other employers to match his policy

Why are we still seeing age discrimination when hiring senior workers?

There are five common stereotypes around older workers that must be overcome for both society and business to benefit

Tricky areas of GDPR compliance

During the course of the employment relationship employers will process a wide range of employees’ personal data, including special categories

Two years since the Taylor Review: What next?

It’s been two years since the government commissioned The Independent Review of Employment Practices in the Modern Economy, or the Taylor Review as it’s more commonly known

Flexible and part-time workers outperform full-time counterparts

The percentage of top performance ratings for part-time and reduced-hours workers is higher than across all staff, at 34% vs 14%, according to Working Families

How chatbots can reduce daily burdens for HR professionals

The breadth and depth of what machine learning can understand means it has strong potential for fields involving understanding and communicating with humans

Employees unsupported when starting new roles

Two-fifths (40%) of employees do not receive onboarding support when starting a new job, according to research

Is this the end of free movement?

What the new Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report and its recommendations might mean for businesses

Humane management case study: The not-for-profit

In her new book Vlatka Hlupic provides case studies to prove that humane management is not just a nice to have. We take a look at some of those organisations included