Most businesses consider their main purpose is not solely to generate profits, new research by the Institute of Directors has found.
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More than 100 postmasters and sub-postmasters are taking the Post Office to an employment tribunal in a bid to be recognised as ‘workers'.
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Co-founder of Thomson's Online Benefits talks about workplace culture, social mobility and HR tech.
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Weak ties between pay and performance is the most common reason for shareholders to withhold their support for executive pay arrangements. This year, some corporate boards are being criticized for "lowering the goalposts" so CEOs no longer had to meet pre-pandemic targets to receive big bonuses while employees faced layoffs and pay cuts.
Welcoming employees back to a physical workplace could enable more effective onboarding, training and collaboration. But recent research shows getting employees to...
The pandemic dealt what is likely a serious blow to the five-day, 9-to-5, in-office workweek that has underpinned work life for nearly a century. How will businesses...
In the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, New York and New Jersey have adopted legislation to benefit airport workers.
With summertime weather comes an increase in Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) abuse. Fortunately, there are several ways to keep employees from misusing FMLA leave....
The U.K.’s Commission for Racial and Ethnicity Disparity recently recommended that all employers voluntarily report pay gaps among ethnic groups to identify and rectify disparities.
It might seem counterintuitive to professionals from the people department, but when it comes to HR analytics you don’t start with people.
Delving into a study conducted by her organisation, Jean Martin from Gartner (formerly CEB) explains that the HR analytics programs that worked were “uniquely focused on business impact and prescription for action.”
Going into more detail, she reveals “Rather...
There are many reasons why women are underrepresented in the world’s tech workforce. But here are two that HR can do something about.
Last year Google had a diversity scandal. A man felt the tech giant’s diversity policies were sexist, and that they privileged women in a way that harmed men. Which is another way of saying that the tech...
