Comic Relief's HR goes electronic

Comic Relief is to implement an online HR system as a means of saving staff time and cutting costs.

Epsom and Ewell saves money with single HR system

Epsom and Ewell Borough Council has replaced its outdated, manual HR and payroll system with a single, web-enabled system.

Workplace design has a big impact on productivity

Ineffective workplaces cost employers more than 135 billion each year.

Uncommon sense: Irrational resistance to innovation

If you want to do business you cannot afford to ignore social networking sites like Twitter.

How far should public-sector HR outsourcing go?

When cost savings are the main driver for outsourcing public-sector HR functions, service quality can suffer. Ensuring best practice must be the main focus.

HR Excellence Awards 2008: Most innovative use of technology - ITV

"Aligned to the corporation's five-year business plan" with "a neat extra dimension of being designed by managers". These were just two of the plaudits judges gave ITV's bold project to implement an...

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Technology Guide: eHR - Hi-tech mental blocks

Research given exclusively to Human Resources magazine shows a high percentage of HR departments failing to adopt the technology that would improve their efficiency.

Technology Guide: Interview - Linked-up thinking

The Wikinomics principle is coming to a website near you. Peter Crush speaks to LinkedIn's marketing director, Patrick Crane, about how global connectivity will be the activity of 2008.

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Technology Guide: Wikinomics - The world is now your talent pool

Collaborative content generation is all the rage on the web. Now the open principles of Wikipedia are being applied to commercial consultancy. Robert Gray reports on a potential HR revolution.

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Technology Guide: Inside view - Visions of the future

Two of the technology industry's leaders and an HR practitioner comment on developments in the market and the kind of practical uses emerging systems will be put to in the future.

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How to survive email

All employees love to send emails but, as Norwich Union discovered, email junkies can be extremely dangerous. Joy Persaud reports

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Bridge the divide

HR professionals can play a key role helping senior managers to analyse their IT needs and talk to the techies. Kathy Harvey reports

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