“Onboarding is a magic moment when new employees decide to stay engaged or become disengaged. It offers an imprinting window when you can make an impression that stays with new employees for the duration of their careers.” So says Amy […]
Research from CIPD has highlighted the plight of the ‘squeezed’ middle manager. The UK Working Lives Report 2018 paints a picture of a cadre of managers who are often under extreme stress, juggling conflicting priorities and bearing the brunt of […]
HR, beware. New research on cybercrime conducted by internet security specialists Verizon makes disturbing reading for those in HR. The report found 170 incidents of cybercrime this year, in comparison to 61 incidents last year, and 88 of these specifically […]
How much down-time did you manage over the long Easter weekend? Did you chill out, spend time with friends and family, watch a film, read a good book? Or were you catching up with emails, reading reports, scrolling through spreadsheets […]
Thanks to the popularity of ‘I, Robot’, many of us are now familiar with Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics* I would like to propose Three Fundamental Laws of HR Technology: Let’s be brutally honest; 2018 isn’t the year that […]
Tomorrow, I am mostly going to be playing with LEGO. Not because it’s half term (no small children are involved) – but as part of a workshop designed to help teams think differently and develop new insights. It’s the kind […]
Access to modern technology is one of the key factors employees consider when deciding whether or not to accept a job, according to a report in this week’s HR Magazine. A Laptops Direct survey of over 2,000 adults found that […]
The soon-to-be-implemented General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brings with it new requirements for businesses, such as better proof of security, enhanced rights for employees over their data and more emphasis on data accuracy. It puts HR teams at the forefront […]
An uncertain economic climate, advances in technology and far-reaching market disruptions are putting organisations under more pressure than ever before. Senior management are increasingly looking to HR to help the business meet these challenges through innovative people processes that get […]
In the past, the best graduates almost always set their sights on bigger companies (see the Times Top 100 graduate schemes). After all, these businesses had the money to spend on university campus recruitment schemes (so could grab them early) […]
Smaller companies often write off the idea of running a mentoring programme because they believe it will be too time-consuming and can only really work well in organisations with a large workforce and the HR resource to manage it. The […]
For those in HR, critical thinking is an imperative skill to have. It’s considered to be one of the top five most desirable attributes for anyone in HR. That shouldn’t come as a surprise: your job involves making important decisions […]
