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Technology | Josh Bersin's 2021 HR technology trends
If the pandemic made HR the centre of attention of the board for the first time, it also radically changed the HR tech marketplace, and for good.
Employment law | Workplace training – getting it right
The recent case of 'Allay v Gehlen' in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) shines the spotlight on workplace training. Training is done for various reasons –including because it is a legal...
Risk | Why employee resilience is the future of work
We have discussed resilience at work but mostly from the perspective of leadership. What we haven’t discussed enough is the resilience required of employees to deal with the challenges they face and...
COVID-19 | Majority of employers to maintain or increase employee wellbeing spend after COVID-19
New light has been shed on employer actions when it comes to employee mental health.
Wellbeing | Three ways to re-frame employee engagement
For the past year we have all been on the receiving end of a constant stream of bad news, change and uncertainty. Psychologists are now speaking of mass trauma – a sense that our 'life pillars' have...
Wellbeing | Why HR should include cancer screening as part of the employee benefits package
Many companies offer health and wellbeing perks to employees as part of their benefits package, as well as access to streamlined diagnostic pathways for those with cancer symptoms. But how many...
Wellbeing | Healthy workers, healthy organisation? How a ‘sporty’ vision of leadership can harm wellbeing
A sporty senior leader in a multinational company, promoting a variety of athletic events and competitions to staff, rated employees from green to red to categorise their fitness. Meetings were held...
Organisational design | Smashing the silos between HR and other business departments
From the start of the pandemic in March 2020, almost half of the UK working population worked from home. One year later, the roadmap out of lockdown is well underway, with vaccines rolling out at an...
Leadership | Open-door policy has had a makeover - let’s keep it that way
There is no doubt spring is upon us. The birdsong is that little louder and, for the briefest of moments this month, sunshine even created a warm feeling across my face. The changing of the weather...
HR myths | HR isn’t the enemy
HR is like marmite. People love it or they hate it, and everybody seems to have an opinion about human resources either way.
AI | Do digital co-workers bully and discriminate?
TUC research has concluded it’s more than likely - rather than a way of reducing discrimination and unconscious bias in the workplace, the use of ‘objective’ non-human artificial intelligence (AI) has...
Wellbeing | A stress risk assessment could transform the workplace
Stress is the scourge of the modern workplace, but if coronavirus has taught us anything it’s that necessity is still the mother of invention.