Engineers in the UK are not being developed to their full potential, according to a study by Towers Watson and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME).

L&D professionals should focus on ‘embedded learning’, focused on performance, to increase employee engagement, L&D expert Charles Jennings said yesterday.

A quarter (24%) of UK businesses would extend health screening into full genetic screening for employees, according to research by Astellas Pharma.

There is a mismatch between what employers think Gen Y staff want from their careers and what younger employers actually want, according to research conducted by Penna.

HR and L&D professionals must put people first when integrating new technologies, according to Source UK Services HR director Caryn Berlingieri.

There should be more visible LGBT role models in business, according to Accenture group chief executive, Products Sander van ‘t Noordende.

Millions of people may not have access to the new pensions freedoms coming into effect in April, according to analysis of the pensions market by pensions consultancy Xafinity.

Research by The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has found that 4.8 million people are at risk of making poor decisions after the government's pension reforms become into effect.

Maximising the mental health of staff should be the “critical aim of businesses,” Stephen Bevan, director of the Centre for Workforce Effectiveness at the Work Foundation, has said.

Employers predict an 11.9% rise in graduate vacancies in the coming year, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).

Two-thirds of HR professionals would like to be able to access real-time information on employee absence

Most employee engagement programmes have had no impact on staff health and wellbeing, according to Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management...