Analysis

Hilary Backwell, Global HR Director at software security company Clearswift, discusses the challenge of Web 2.0 and social media in today’s workplace and provides advice on how HR professionals can…

According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in September, UK retail sales rose by 0.6%. For me, this begs the question… are we now buying…

Using new research, Jack Wiley of the Kenexa High Performance Institute explains how HR can help organisations make the cultural transformation to become more dynamic. HR practitioners are always looking…

A strong organisational culture is a business advantage that helps generate and maintain top-level performance. This is an obvious, intuitive statement that all business leaders understand and discuss. Yet, while…

From 6 April, UK businesses can no longer give notice to employees of their retirement under a default retirement age (DRA). Whilst Employment Minster Ed Davey hailed this reform as…

Les Venus, Chief Executive of Threshold Initiative and board member of UK Council for Access and Equality offers his analysis of workplace diversity. I don’t know about you but it seems…

In the build up to November’s Workplace Diversity & Equality Forum, Ruth Spellman, Chief Executive, Chartered Management Institute considers the intricacies of managing a workforce which is getting older. There’s…

As part of the build up to November’s Workplace Equality & Diversity Forum, Sharon Goldie, Dyslexia Specialist & Workplace Consultant at leading assistive technology specialists, iansyst Ltd, explains the importance…

From 6 April, UK businesses can no longer give notice to employees of their retirement under a default retirement age (DRA). Whilst Employment Minster Ed Davey hailed this reform as…

Confidence is shaky, there are calls for radical change, businesses claiming that tribunals are unfair and expensive, that the Tribunal system needs radical reform and that business need protection from…

From April 2011, fathers will have the right to take up to 26 weeks’ additional paternity leave (“APL”), if their partners decide to return to work early. These new rights…

The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (“the Regulations”) were published in January 2010. With implementation delayed to 1 October 2011, it may feel like the pressure is off for now. However,…

With the financial budgets for local councils now confirmed, HR professionals face the difficult task of making employee cuts. They are under intense pressure as the headcount reductions needed are…

Jim Irving, CEO of Guardian24, a provider of lone worker safety solutions, examines new vulnerabilities within businesses when it comes to the legislation and considers what else can be done…

Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced that the Government would start to measure people’s well-being to help gauge the success of the nation. Shouldn’t employers be doing the same? LAST…

Over 9 million people in the UK are hard of hearing. A survey by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf from 2005 found that out of the 65 million…

Providing a bad experience to job applicants can irreparably damage your employer brand. Richard MacKinnon of Talent Q claims that good practice can be gleaned from the four mistakes typically…

Geoff Newman, CEO, RecruitmentGenius.com The recession has underlined the fact that businesses that do well in this climate are also likely to be the most adaptable. This in turn means…

In the build up to October’s Talent Management & Leadership Development Summit, James Callander, Managing Director of FreshMinds Talent considers why employing the wrong person could be more than just…

As part of the build up to September’s Employer Branding Summit, HRreview features a piece by David Kilmartin, Head of Business Development, Capita Registrars which – among other topics –…

Richard Nott, Website Director, CWJobs.co.uk The recruitment market has been impacted by social trends, the economy and changes in policy this year. Looking forward to 2012, CWJobs.co.uk has picked out…

There’s a lot of it around. Redundancy, that is. It can be a shock and can leave people feeling useless, hopeless and isolated. If you’re over fifty it can feel…

The current and continuing economic market challenges will inevitably mean that a tighter leash will be kept on training budgets for some time to come. This presents HR managers with…

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Leading Human Resources and payroll software specialist Cascade HR is set to launch a mobile app at this year’s CIPD HR Software Show (HRSS). Dedicated to making day-to-day HR processes…

It’s becoming more and more common to hear the words ‘marketing’ and ‘employer brand’ being thrown around HR and recruitment teams. Against a tough economic backdrop employers have looked long and hard at their cost base with many workforces being trimmed to the minimum. If most FD’s had their way employers would be left with a very few, incredibly talented and equally overworked employees!

Global Mobility or Expatriate Management is as old as humankind itself. The ancient migration routes of our earliest ancestors are well documented and the distances travelled by primitive man still continue to amaze. Brian Friedman explains more..