Strategic HR

2020’s best HR technology strategy: Circle K Europe and Turkcell Global Bilgi

The judges scores were too close to call for the winners of best HR technology strategy this year, so it is one of the few categories that celebrates a joint winner this year.

Embracing unsolicited advice could help your workforce

If you ask your colleagues if they have ever received unsolicited advice, they will surely have an anecdote or two to tell. When people receive unsolicited advice, it tends to raise further questions:...

Bad technology is impacting company culture

Poor internet connection and faulty technology is demotivating and disengaging employees.

UK government must be ‘more like Biden’ to save jobs

An economic boost four times as great as currently planned by government is needed to protect jobs and advance the UK economy, according to a new study.

2020’s best CSR strategy: Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

Formed in 2018, the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) group brought together CSR expertise and long-standing commitments from both Unibail-Rodamco and Westfield shopping centre operators. Since then,...

Are we cherry-picking from the family tree when it comes to recruitment?

There’s a big disconnect between graduates and hirers on the prevalence of nepotism in recruitment, and HR must do more to strip out bias and promote clarity, says Peter Crush

Last chance to enter the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021

Entries close on 1 March for Working Families’ national awards celebrating UK employers who are leading the way in work-life balance.

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How leaders can identify racial trauma

The evidence that racism exists in workplaces is incontestable. Discussion of issues such as the race pay gap and the lack of BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) representation at senior levels is...

Homeworking – are we still loving it?

In May and June 2020, Liverpool Business School ran a survey to ask people about their early experiences of transitioning from office work to homeworking.

How to fix the pitfalls of remote learning

In the current climate, considering how to improve learning and development (L&D) initiatives for the year ahead is no simple task.

Majority of HR leaders are beginners when it comes to D&I, finds Josh Bersin

A study by Josh Bersin analysts has found that HR professionals are not well trained to support diversity, equality and inclusion (EDI) initiatives and managerial issues.

2020's best reward and recognition strategy: EDF

?With 5.5 million customers, EDF is the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity, meeting around one-fifth of the country’s demand.