UK small businesses look to IT innovation to attract and retain staff in 2012

More than half of UK small businesses say IT is an integral part of their drive for business growth, increased innovation and productivity according to research released today from the Epson Business...

Augmented reality and HR – is it just a gimmick or does it have real utility?

Hold your phone over an image of Tottenham football players and a video will start to play showing highlights of a goal scored by Tottenham vs. Liverpool. How is this possible?

Oracle acquires talent management firm Taleo

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation a provider of cloud-based talent management for $46.00 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo's cash and debt.

Honesty is the best policy: how to stop worrying and learn to love social media

The ideas that drive employer marketing and internal communications are based on a 20th Century paradigm: we’ll define what we want people to think, and then find an interesting way of pitching that...

Maybourne Hotel Group launches online scheduling to help control labour costs

Maybourne Hotel Group has launched a new technology platform to manage scheduling for all operational staff at its headquarters and three luxury hotels in London Claridge’s (pictured), The Berkeley,...

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Person in the news: Paula Jordan, HRD at McCarthy & Stone

As employers face a continuing period of economic uncertainty, it is those that lift their heads above the parapet that will survive and thrive – and McCarthy & Stone’s HR director, Paula Jordan...

Social enterprise can develop stronger ties between management and employees

In today's competitive marketplace, organisations are competing fiercely to retain and nurture their top talent pool to power their business growth.

How to balance company security with employee rights

The ubiquity of computers and electronic devices in the workplace presents a major challenge to HR departments.

Breath screening tool for employers launched to save £6.4 billion annual cost of workplace hangovers

Each day over 140,000 people go into work with a hangover with a cumulative impact of £6.4 billion cost to the UK economy, triggering the launch of employee breath screening technology in workplaces.

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SMEs turn to the next generation to plot the social enterprise future

We are seeing a growing number of SMEs intent on transforming themselves into social enterprises: organisations that leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies to put customers at the heart...

KPMG: UK 'lags behind' on social media for business

Businesses in the UK, Germany and Canada are lagging behind their peers in the emerging markets when it comes to adopting and using social media.

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Quakers launch HR software system to increase efficiency

Faith based not-for-profit organisation the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has invested in a new HR software system as it looks to increase efficiency.