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Majority of employees have no idea who's responsible for carbon emission control

Two thirds of UK employees don't know if their organisation employs someone to monitor carbon emissions. But no respondents thought it HR should have to deal with it.

SME staff don't realise the pressure their companies are under

Almost half (48%) of small business owners fear their staff do not understand how serious the recession is and 46% do not think their staff appreciate the pressures their firms are under.

Restructuring of HR departments is on the cards this year

A quarter of HR departments increased their headcount in 2008 and 31% are expecting to restructure this year.

'It won't happen to me' attitude to redundancy prevails

Despite rising unemployment figures, many UK employees are not letting the recession change their attitude to work. Instead of facing the reality of salary cuts and potential redundancy, workers are...

HR staff use Facebook and MySpace to find out what employees get up to

A third of HR professionals and managers confess to searching through employees' social networking profiles for information on their background and 24% are not impressed with what they find.

This recession could be the making of HR

We asked: do you think things will get worse for HR in 2009 before they get better?78% said yes22% said no

Two fifths of employees are not bothered by recession

Nearly two-fifths of employees (38%) claim the recession has made no difference to their lives according to a survey by workplace stress consultant, In Equilibrium.

Recession causes migration from private to public sector

Nearly three quarters (72%) of private sector staff say they are more likely to move to the public sector than they were a year ago.

Workplace bullying is still rife but victims are too frightened to report it

Seven out of 10 British employees claim to have been bullied at work but 30% are too worried about reporting the problem for fear of repercussions.

Two-thirds of staff use social networking to maintain work relationships

Almost two thirds of employees (64%) who do not work in the same building as most of their work friends are using social networking websites to maintain relationships with colleagues - and 16% claim...

Employees accept inevitability of redundancy and reassess careers, says CMI

Most employees have moved on from fearing redundancy to seeing it as inevitable, according to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Line Management: Piggy in the middle

Middle managers feel they take a big share of the pressure for very little recognition, research from Roffey Park reveals. And they blame HR. Peter Crush looks at some damning statistics.