HR has been voted the least trusted department in business, with more than a quarter of employees expressing mistrust in the profession.
Unemployment will peak at 3.2 million in the third quarter of 2010, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
More than 100,000 small businesses are wasting an average 1,000 every year on advice to comply with employment law obligations.
Redeployment levels across the human resources sector have doubled over the past year as employers try to transfer staff internally as a means of avoiding redundancy.
We are living and working in unprecedented times. The recession, claimed by many to be the worst in living memory, has impacted the UK economy to an alarming extent. With unemployment soaring to...
The high rate of absence in the NHS is caused by long working hours and workplace conditions, according to one industry expert.
Hay fever costs UK business 7.1 billion every year in lost productivity.
The financial sector has had to cut jobs at the fastest rate since 1993 to trim costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and the Confederation of British Insustry (CBI) - but the general...
Nearly nine out of 10 staff (87%) think it is important to help their employer cut costs and 78% are prepared to be more energy-efficient to save money.
Recent research shows only 8% of companies trusted employees to work away from the office.
We present a list of the 10 HR practitioners we believe have pushed forward the boundaries of the profession in the past year.
Seven out of 10 people over 60 (71%) have 'significant' regrets about their time spent in employment with 27% claiming to have persevered in a job they were not suited to.
