Research has revealed that 79% of SME employers have identified skills gaps in their organisation in the past 12 months. Larger SMEs (100-249 employees) are more likely to report these gaps (85%).
The final day of the HR Minds Summit took place in Birmingham yesterday (6 February 2025). Read on for a round-up of insights from day two.
A computer analyst has been told by a tribunal that a belief in his own psychic ability does not qualify as a protected belief.
HR magazine's editorial team is in Birmingham for the HR Minds Summit. Here's what we learned from day one, yesterday (5 February 2025).
Multiple HR practitioners have argued that the HR function has valid leadership and business credentials, after prime minister Kier Starmer was allegedly accused of being an “HR manager", not a...
The UK government's struggles to hire an HR director for its flagship energy company have sparked a discussion around HR's pay, and how the function is valued compared with other business verticals.
Female workers at supermarket Asda have advanced to the final stage in their legal battle for equal pay, in what law firm Leigh Day described as "the largest ever private-sector equal pay claim".
More than a million people are working on a zero-hours contract basis, and around 720,000 of them have been with their current employer for over a year, according to analysis by the Trades Union...
Workplace advisory firm Acas has reported that 39% of line managers find it difficult to have conversations about neurodiversity at work.
Fewer CEOs in FTSE 100 companies left their organisations in 2024 than in 2023, according to data from leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates. How can HR support improved retention...
Two thirds (68%) of HR professionals use AI at work, making them the second most likely to do so among 12 other industries and professions, according to research published yesterday (30 January).
Women are less likely to get a job than they were in 2022, according to research conducted by the charity Smart Works.