Supporting the working homeless: The employer’s role

Many factors causing homelessness are out of employers’ control, but they can still lend vital support

HRD's pocket guide to... the circular economy

The HRD’s pocket guide series offers an explanation of areas outside day-to-day HR that business-savvy HRDs need to have a handle on

New obligations and opportunities in assessing company culture

Culture is now in the sights of the regulators and set to become a boardroom issue

Moving towards predictive analytics in HR

Analysing people data is nothing new, but too often HR focuses on what’s already happened

Legal-ease: Home working considerations

The responsibilities of both employer and employee when considering home working arrangements

Staff worried about #MeToo backlash over work relationships

Women being believed and men rejecting toxic masculinity means we're on the verge of big change around harassment at work

Case study: Banking on ex-military talent

Barclays is making the transition from military to ‘civvy street’ employment as smooth as possible for UK veterans

MPs: “Collective failure of leadership” in charity sex abuse “endemic”

The government has recommended four actions after a report found the sector guilty of “complacency verging on complicity”

Poor environmental ethics could cost your business

Where companies are going wrong in their ethical stance, how this can affect them and what can be done to make businesses start thinking green for the right reasons

Tackling the taboo of domestic abuse is all of our business

Your role is not to deal with the abuse itself but to make it clear that employees will be supported

Employee use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs

There is a strong business case for employers to have policies in place to allow employees to make responsible choices

Should standard references be scrapped?

The Oxfam scandal highlighted the unsatisfactory practice that has developed in giving references