At Santander UK over 60% of our staff are women, so it is important that we offer a broad range of options designed to appeal to working mums and to help them settle back into their jobs as quickly...
Simon Lloyd, HR director at Santander UK, says that flexibility is key in ensuring that working mothers are able to maximise their career potential, both to their individual benefit, and that of...
The UK must broaden women's aspirations and career choices, as well as create a better business culture, which embraces flexible working and provides better support for working parents, to help boost...
Organisational culture is the main reason why women are under-represented at senior levels in digital media and mobile industries, according to a survey published by volunteer-led organisation, Women...
A group of leading employers led by Ernst and Young and supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the CBI has announced the launch of a National Equality Standard (NES).
Diversity continues to remain something of a luxury for some organisations at a time when companies have been very focused on critical change, restructuring and compliance and reward matters.
Promoting equality in business is “simpler than [organisations] think”, with SMEs in particular perceiving the laws around it as “more burdensome” than they really are, employment relations minister...
Diversity and inclusion programmes must be tied to commercial strategy or risk failing due to “diversity fatigue”, Sarah Churchman, director of diversity, inclusion and employee wellbeing at...
Employment relations minister, Jo Swinson has said the government is taking a range of steps to help "remove the barriers" that are holding women back in the workplace.
When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, Christine Lagarde, now head of the IMF, quipped that had it been Lehman Sisters, the economic crisis would look very different.
UK business could potentially benefit by £5 billion a year if companies unblocked the talent pipeline for their 500,000 female middle managers, according to a report published today by talent...
Less than one-third of executives believe their companies have made good progress in promoting diversity and inclusion (D&I) relative to ethnicity, age, disability or sexual orientation, according to...
