Employers should reconsider rewarding employees with alcohol if they want to see improvements in staff wellbeing and performance, the head of NHS Employers has said.

Employers should consider investing bonus pots in base salaries or initiatives that improve employees’ work enjoyment to drive performance, a management expert has suggested.

Gender diversity initiatives are being hampered by focusing too much on initiatives that make women feel more satisfied rather than driving actual promotions, research suggests.

Almost two-thirds of employers expect a shortage of experienced candidates in HR recruitment over the next year.

Job vacancies in England have returned to pre-recession levels, but economic recovery will be impeded by a lack of recruits with appropriate skills, Government research suggests.

GDP figures showing the UK economy is growing have prompted warnings recovery will be hampered by low productivity and be felt disproportionately across industries.

Four of Europe’s biggest banks are to target recruits from low and middle income households, after research revealed the disproportionate number of finance employees from privileged backgrounds.

HR professionals should be brought into mergers and acquisitions (M&A) processes as early as possible to avoid failed deals, a business school report has recommended.

Barclays is considering closing a quarter of its 1,600 UK branches and cutting hundreds of investment banking jobs in an attempt to cut costs.

A think tank has warned that many of the UK’s largest cities will fail to feel the effects of an improving economy, as the greatest job growth is located in London.

Almost two thirds of the first employers to automatically enrol their staff into workplace pensions found meeting the duties more difficult than anticipated, a not-for-profit pension scheme has said.

Young fathers are more resentful towards their employer about work-life balance than mothers, according to a survey by Working Families and Bright Horizons.