Ideas & Insights

We would like to share some of our latest thinking about the big issues in HR. Please let us know what you think …

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    14th August 2024

    Why it’s Smart to be Leveraging Your Leaders to Drive Business Strategy

    By Anya Clitheroe and Gordon Robinson As the pace of change continues to increase, forward-looking organizations will be planning to invest in enhancing the capabilities of their senior leadership teams. Why now? Because across multiple areas of business, opportunities are emerging to gain significant competitive and commercial advantage – and smart companies know that investing […]

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    12th August 2024

    How Can Employers Support Their Staff Amid Civil Unrest?

    In recent days, the UK has experienced the worst civil unrest in more than a decade. After the fatal stabbing of three young girls at a dance class in the UK seaside town of Southport, the spread of misinformation around the perpetrator of this crime, as well as far-right and anti-immigration rhetoric, has sparked a […]

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    07th August 2024

    What We’re Reading: How to Know a Person by David Brooks

    During our Inspiring Inclusion Webinar, panellist Kelli Hammersmith read an excerpt of David Brooks’s How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. This inspired us to choose David’s book as this month’s reading recommendation. David is an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, as well as being […]

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    06th August 2024

    Depression Vs. Burnout: Why Employers Need to Know the Difference

    Burnout is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an ‘occupational phenomenon’. Whilst it is not a medical condition, it has been classified as a syndrome, meaning a collection of symptoms or signs associated with a specific health-related cause. Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress or […]

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    02nd August 2024

    How Employers Can Support the Rising ‘Super-Commuters’

    As the tug of war between working from home and working from the office continues, we are now seeing a rise in return to office (RTO) mandates being issued across multiple industries. Indeed, one study has found that up to 70% of companies with flexible work schedules are planning to increase the days employees must […]

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    29th July 2024

    Is it Time to Conduct a Pay Equity Review?

    The importance of reviewing and analysing pay equity is steadily increasing. As companies continue to strive to foster diverse, inclusive, and fair workplaces, a seemingly critical component of this is their commitment to pay equity. Sadly, it’s no secret that there is still a significant gender pay gap (women working full-time in the US are […]

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    24th July 2024

    Is it Time to Go Co? The Pros and Cons of Co-Leadership

    British department store Marks & Spencer’s was one of the latest large companies to announce that they were adopting a co-leadership structure. They now position themselves alongside such names as Salesforce, Netflix, and Goldman Sachs in this venture – and this has rekindled the debate over whether more organizations should consider a co-CEO format. A […]

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    16th July 2024

    How Can Leaders Ensure They Aren’t Being Toxically Positive?

    It’s not a far cry to assume that positivity is a positive thing…but is it always? There is a lot of research to show that being happy and positive at work leads to better productivity. The famous study from Oxford University is commonly cited after discovering that employees are 13% more productive when happier. Meanwhile, […]

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    12th July 2024

    Largest UK Public Sector Trial of Four-Day Week Sees Huge Benefits | The Guardian

    In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found. South Cambridgeshire district council’s controversial experiment with a shorter working week resulted in improvements in performance in 11 out of 24 areas, little […]

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    10th July 2024

    HR in Crisis!?

    With the scope of HR continuing to grow, the profession is witnessing an increasing number of HR teams that are struggling to meet this increasing demand. In a recent LinkedIn poll, we asked our followers to share where their teams were facing challenges. Almost half of respondents, 43%, said CAPACITY (having enough of the right […]

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