Baker Tilly's new online HR system has improved absence monitoring and cut costs by 75%

Baker Tilly has reduced HR spend by 75% as a result of moving to an online HR system.

Pernod Ricard has launched an online internal mobility strategy

Pernod Ricard has launched an online internal mobility strategy for it's 19,000 employees.

Technip standardises its HR process across 48 countries

Technip, the engineering, technologies and project management company for the oil and gas industry, has launched an online platform to manage the recruitment, internal mobility, performance management...

Use of Facebook at work is a way of life for an increasing number of employees

Employees are seeing the use of Facebook permeate their working lives with more than a third having been sent a friendship request on Facebook by a colleague, client or boss, according to The...

HR magazine launches health and wellbeing blog

Dr Peter Mills has joined HR magazine's online community, blogging about the business case for HR's involvement in employee wellbeing.

Employees accessing their social media profiles at work costs companies 14 billion a year

Social networking costs employers 14 billion per year as two million workers spend over an hour per day 'Facebooking' at work, research claims.

Greater integration of IT and HR systems is needed to maximise support for the HR team

IT and HR professionals recognise the value that HR technology can add to the business but this is not reflected by a drive to improve the integration and functionality of HR technology systems.

Alexander Mann Solutions wins recruitment contract for engineering company Cobham

Cobham has outsourced its recruitment function to Alexander Mann Solutions in a bid to develop a high quality talent pool.

Alliance of Sector Skills Councils in Scotland to tap into social media as means of promoting apprenticeships

A social media campaign has been launched this week to promote the take-up of apprenticeships in Scotland.

Reckitt Benckiser's Facebook recruitment application aims to educate high-flyers on working for a FMCG group

Reckitt Benckiser (RB) has launched a Facebook application as part of a new recruitment drive to educate talented graduates and early career sales and marketing professionals about life in a global...

HR leaders need to help build new models for making the most of working in the information age

Economies and societies are leaving their industrial past behind. We are moving rapidly into what many commentators have described as the information age. Businesses that will prosper in this new age...

Modern technology dictates staff are never on holiday

Current work practices in the UK are not working - and the idea of multitasking in the workplace is a myth, according to new findings.