Soft skills as important as hard skills to recruiters

Employers’ hiring priorities are changing, with soft skills, pay transparency, and flexible working high on the agenda, according to the latest Global Talent Trends report from LinkedIn

Can HR be agile?

How HR can contribute to an organisation becoming truly agile, not just flexible and fast-moving

Job sharing at the executive level

With flexible working front of mind for HR, job sharing at leadership level is on the rise

Home workers struggling to switch off

Employees working from home are finding it difficult to achieve work/life balance, with 92% answering emails outside of working hours

Senior job sharing: How we make it work

Flexible working has the potential to make the UK more productive and to create happier, more committed staff and a diverse workforce that is more in tune with its customers

Government-backed flexible working campaign launched

A new campaign has been launched today to encourage employers to make flexible working the norm

Employers report changing employee expectations

Almost all (97%) employers agree that employees’ expectations of their experience in the workplace are changing, according to Aon

The five biggest HR learnings from 2018

As we enter a new year it's a good opportunity to assess what we've learned and where to go next

Dealing with flexible working requests from staff with caring responsibilities

Given the ageing population, employees increasingly need to balance their work and life to deal with caring responsibilities

Greater workplace support for fertility patients needed

Infertility can be emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially draining, and it is estimated that one in seven couples have problems conceiving

We must create and advertise more flexible roles

More widespread and embedded flexible working practices will help solve key challenges for employers

Workers' rights get "largest upgrade in a generation"

The government announced plans to give greater protections to gig economy workers today