Extending the National Insurance Contributions (NIC) holiday to all micro-firms across the UK would create 45,000 jobs, according to research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
The average level of employee absence in the UK has fallen compared with last year – from 7.7 days to 6.8 per employee per year – according to this year’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and...
Highly engaged staff must trust senior executives more than their line manager but more employees overall trust their immediate boss, says BlessingWhite.
US novelist Jack London, best known for The Call of the Wild and White Fang, famously said “affluence means influence”. But for those ranked on HR’s seventh annual Most Influential list,...
Research has revealed that UK women rank fifth in the world for leadership potential, yet only 20% of women in the UK are represented in leadership roles.
Senior executives are being poorly recruited and entered into UK organisations, often as a result of the business failing to work more closely with the HR function, according to research out today,...
Financial services firms in the City of London are facing a challenge to lower employee salary expectations, which are out of sync with the new era of austerity expected in the sector, says a report...
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When, last September, we unveiled research by then Warwick Business School and now Henley professor Simon Collinson and consultancy Simplicity Partnership that found the biggest 200 global companies...
Winners of the prestigious Top Employers for Working Families awards 2012 were announced on Tuesday. In recognition of the companies who go the extra mile for working families, we profile five of the...
Employers need to fill job vacancies within 72 working days or just under 15 weeks before people assume it's a job no-one wants, according to research carried out by UK recruitment company...
A study of 245 UK employers conducted by international law firm, Eversheds, has revealed that 41% of respondents want the obligation to be changed to allow workers to opt out in advance, rather than...
