Employers have been left reeling by a record number of NHS COVID-19 app alerts asking people to self-isolate.

Kelly Williams, winner of the coveted HR director of year award at the 2020 HR Excellence Awards, wants other HRDs to be celebrated for the hard work they've done during the pandemic.

The UK government has outlined new intentions to help stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace.

COVID-19 and the imminent ‘echo pandemic’ in mental health means companies must overhaul their wellbeing programmes to focus on greater engagement and culture change.

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) will not be extended to those who earn less than £120 per week, the government has confirmed.

Two-thirds (64%) of HR specialists are expecting heightened work pressures as their organisations introduce more homeworking.

Technology – love it or loathe it, there can be no question that it’s enabled the world of work to continue with some sense of normality over the course of the pandemic.

Despite the end of lockdown restrictions on 19 July and the widespread return to the office in sight, remote job opportunities are still on the rise.

More than half (55%) of UK employees think they’ll have less time to get involved with company fundraising efforts post-pandemic.

The UK has an estimated seven million registered carers - that’s a staggering one in 10 people. That number is only set to grow too, and over the next 30 years, it’s anticipated the total will have...

According to the CIPD, almost six in ten (57%) HR professionals have said they have suffered staff shortages in the last month due to employees being told to self-isolate by the NHS Test and Trace...

Though the UK is now gradually lifting lockdown restrictions and, in some areas, encouraging staff to return to the office, 70% of organisations are still developing a post-pandemic workplace...