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Only 38% of UK employers offer digital skills training

Nearly a third (31%) of working-age adults in the UK lack even basic digital problem-solving skills

Financial services now penalising risky behavours

Only 11% of financial services firms still reward positive risk behaviours to a ‘great degree’

Impact more important than salary for millennials

A survey of executives found most believe having an impact on the business is most important to younger generations

Investors left ‘in the dark’ over human capital reporting, says PLSA

The PLSA has published a toolkit to help investors get better quality human capital information from companies

Putting theory into practice: Trust

Bath School of Management's Veronica Hope Hailey and BBC Worldwide people director Kirstin Furber talk trusted leadership

Businesses must consider pipeline of female talent

HR director at O2 Ann Pickering said businesses must forward plan to prevent the same conversation about lack of progress on women on boards coming round every five years

Skills policy moves from BIS to Department of Education

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Education have been shaken up under May

Upping disengaged workers' pay doesn't boost commitment

In a recent survey respondents ranked remuneration as tenth out of 11 as a reason for resigning

Almost half apprehensive about hiring disabled workers

Mark Grimley, director of HR at disability charity Scope, explains how to accommodate disabled employees

40% have never received retirement advice

Britons now expect to save for 30 years before they retire, compared with the current generation of retirees who saved for 23

Organisations ineffective at talent foreplanning

Only 6% of CEOs own the talent management process in their organisations, with 61% placing it solely within HR

Women on boards target not ambitious enough

The chair of the EHRC has called on the government to go further in new Hampton-Alexander review targets