Employers seeking to plug skills gaps are increasingly turning to older workers and ‘career returners’ as shrinking talent pools and tighter immigration policies intensify pressure on recruitment pipelines. Research...
Read moreDetailsAround 43 per cent of working-age people (equivalent to 14.6 million people) are under-saving for retirement, according to a recent report by the Department for Work and Pensions. In...
Read moreDetailsExecutive remuneration across the UK’s largest listed companies has risen sharply following changes to Investment Association (IA) rules and the removal of the bankers’ bonus cap, according to Mercer....
Read moreDetailsThe UK labour market showed further signs of cooling over the summer, with the number of payrolled employees falling and job vacancies continuing to decline. Figures from the Office...
Read moreDetailsThe Society of Pension Professionals is calling for smaller employers to be included in new ethnicity pay reporting standards, to improve transparency and narrow the ethnicity pay gap. The...
Read moreDetailsBritish Airways has overhauled its approach to pay and benefits after identifying a gap between pay perception and total reward value. It launched a financial empowerment strategy to help...
Read moreDetailsThe UK’s National Living Wage (NLW) has delivered sharp pay rises for low-paid workers but could create long-term challenges for employers and the economy, research has found. A study...
Read moreDetailsPay transparency is moving fast from debate to reality. The EU directive is reshaping the rules, UK reporting on ethnicity and disability is on the horizon, and individual US...
Read moreDetailsChancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out tax rises in her Autumn budget as reports suggest there is a more than £20 billion shortfall in the public finances....
Read moreDetailsEmployers have been warned “no business can afford to overlook the value of disabled talent”, as a paper highlights the barriers to work many disabled people face. Disabled people...
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Return-to-office mandates are a topic that’s generating plenty of heat in the media, but how closely do the headlines match workplace reality?
In this episode, one of a three-part series of 10-minute podcasts, hosts Claire Churchard and Steve Herbert discuss data that shows remote or home working is on the rise.
We look at what this means for HR, from balancing employee flexibility with business needs, to ensuring benefits packages remain fair and accessible. We discuss the pinch points, and the opportunities, in building the new normal of work.
