Dave Ulrich has responded to a paper on 18 years of the Ulrich Model by saying the report ignores the many updates and adaptations that have been published since it was originally conceived.
I’ve grown up with an important appreciation of work-life balance and flexible working.
Flexible working, particularly in relation to child care, is heavily skewed towards mums. HR magazine editor Arvind Hickman argues a shift in employer attitudes is needed ahead of next year's shared...
Archaic it may be, but when most people think of flexible working arrangements, it’s highly likely that mothers spring to mind. But the tide is turning. For a start, employers are being urged to...
HR magazine looks at how important HR is to the burgeoning small and medium-sized enterprise sector and finds that, once the initial cynicism about bureaucracy is overcome, the function can evolve...
Registrations for the 6th annual Working Families awards, in partnership with HR Magazine, are now open.
Thanks to the fact nearly two out of three families are now ‘two-earners’ and the UK has a ‘long working-hours culture’, the issue of flexible working has gained HR and political traction of late.
If Nigel Farage had his way, China’s one-child policy would look positively benign. In a speech he gave in London earlier this week, he said that only women who reject motherhood completely have any...
Almost three quarters of UK employees say they work more productively at home than in an office, research suggests.
The perfect storm of a baby boom and an ageing population is a potential HR headache, but you can learn a lot from this year’s Top Employers for Working Families Awards.
Employers should let workers who care for elderly relatives choose what hours they work, health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured) has said.
For employees the potential benefit of flexible working is obvious: a better work-life balance. But what’s in it for businesses?