Fun is not on the agenda in Britain’s workplaces, despite British workers preferring working in a fun environment, to having higher pay, research published this week reveals.

The Government must remain focused on supporting the economy and driving growth in the private sector, Employment minister Chris Grayling (pictured) said yesterday.

For the past 25 years, the Human Resource Competency Study or HRCS has chronicled the evolution of HR performance and professionalism.

Ernst & Young has today launched a new school leaver programme.

Insurance broker Hastings Direct is to recruit 200 members of staff, including 100 for newly created jobs.

Undergraduates at Kingston University studying HR management will be at the heart of the Olympic volunteering interview process filtering some of the quarter of a million people who have applied to...

Micro businesses (those with fewer than 10 employees) want to grow, but find it difficult to recruit staff for the job. In a survey of over 2,000 micro businesses, over half (55%) are looking to...

More than 5,400 women are "missing" from Britain’s 26,000 most powerful posts and at the current rate of change it will take 70 years to reach an equal number of men and women directors of FTSE 100...

Seven out of 10 learning and development teams are too busy fire-fighting their day-to-day challenges to focus on the strategic talent and learning issues in their organisations, according to a survey...

Acas, the employment relations service, has published a new guide to show employers how they can strengthen their business by engaging with staff.

It is going to take more than pension reforms and redundancies to push public workers into the private sector, according to a report published yesterday by recruitment consultants Badenoch & Clark.

The unemployment rate for the three months to June 2011 was 7.9%, up 0.1% on the previous quarter, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics, published this morning.