VyT scraps ambition to ‘capitalise’ staff

Negative feedback has spurred the CIPD to remove an element of Valuing Your Talent that aimed to measure staff as a balance-sheet asset. But as the project’s launch date nears, professional divisions...

Integrated reporting requires influential HR

The success of integrated reporting relies on HR taking the opportunity to ramp up its influence on strategy and value creation, experts have said.

IIRC launches integrated reporting framework

The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) has published the integrated reporting framework, providing HR with an opportunity to lead on what is widely regarded as the next evolution of...

Integrated reporting: can HR step up?

A revolution in corporate reporting is under way as organisations realise business success is about more than just an impressive balance sheet. HR has a vital role to play in integrated reporting, but...

Public sector hit hardest in Government spending review

The public sector is predicted to lose a further 144,000 jobs in a bid to achieve savings of £5 billion, chancellor George Osborne announced in the Government’s spending review yesterday.

Tolerating the unacceptable

One of the biggest news stories of 2012 came in October courtesy of a television expose on the activities of a famous 1970s light entertainer. Stories around the TV figure’s “darker side” have since...

Apprentices are vital in widening the pool of IT talent

For companies in the IT sector – and across all sectors with a significant number of IT workers – apprenticeships are moving rapidly from nice-to-have to must-have.

Claridge’s launch tonight for this year's Most Influential rankings

HR magazine unveils the 2012 HR Most Influential ranking at a prestigious event at Claridge’s Hotel tonight.

Olympics and self-employed boost UK employment figures

The latest Labour Market Statistics report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), published yesterday, brought rare good news on employment, perhaps attributable to a boost given by the Olympic...

BIS gets busy over red tape

Business secretary Vince Cable MP announced yesterday a blitz on “over 3,000 regulations to be scrapped or overhauled”, a further instalment in the Government’s drive to reduce red tape. Shops,...

Pearson becomes first FTSE 100 company directly delivering undergraduate degrees in the UK

Pearson, owner of Penguin and the Financial Times, is launching a higher education college - becoming the first FTSE 100 company to directly deliver degrees in the UK.

Toothy: UK dentists top for customer service, gym staff bottom, survey finds

In a study of 1,000 UK consumers by customer service training firm, Results International, 47% of people said they think dentists have a good customer service attitude, compared with just 27% who...