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Is the HR blogosphere on a collision course with HR practice?

HR bloggers are competing with mainstream HR experts in the endless search for answers to workplace challenges

HRD's pocket guide to... customer service

June's pocket guide explores the critical link between employee engagement and customer service

Health and wellbeing: Don't go for low-hanging fruit

The most popular H&W initiatives risk leaving many people behind and missing the point

Anchoring the shift in mindset

Anchors hold our attention in the sea of consciousness and help us to focus on desirable thinking patterns

Building a holistic wellbeing strategy

There are many factors that add up to a holistic H&W strategy, including mental and financial health

Is the apprenticeship levy the end for grad programmes?

Apprenticeships can provide the training that has been used to smooth over graduates' rough edges

L&D professionals have an important contribution

Learning and development professionals have an important contribution to make in this new and difficult climate

Is HR inadvertently ‘silencing’ employees?

Employees 'speaking up' are doomed to failure when nothing has been done to address 'listening up'

Sharing HR practices across Europe at Hitachi

Overseeing HR for 20,000 is difficult. The key at Hitachi is sharing good practices, and people, around the different businesses

Why work/life balance needs a rethink

True work/life balance is achieved, and disengagement combatted, when employees are empowered to take control of their own activities

The role of HR in safeguarding and child protection

HR can take the lead in deciding whether safeguarding provisions for vulnerable groups are fit for purpose

Returnships, coming to a business near you

The government has pledged £5 million for 'returnships' aimed mainly at getting women back to work