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Employment and rewards after the pandemic: investment or austerity, compassion or carnage?

Most of us this last weekend were able to enjoy the admittedly slightly strange experience of being table-served in our local pub, and taking the...

Confirmation bias and consultation

In the 1960s, an English psychologist called Peter Wason noticed something interesting about human behaviour: people are usually happy to believe something, as long as...

Corporate support for Black Lives Matter needs to be more than just lip service

In the last few weeks we have witnessed many organisations and institutions responding to the Black Lives Matter movement by posting black squares on the...

IPA Back to Work Interview with Derek Luckhurst

Steering your course back to work

It is always a good sign when you have been lined up to follow someone you find yourself enthusiastically agreeing with, as I did when...

The Challenges of Being a Representative of People Working From Home

One of the more positive consequences of lockdown has been the been the way we have come to re-evaluate certain jobs that, previously, were considered...

Working From Home – How Do Firms Keep In Touch With Their Staff?

I am used to working from home and, over the years, have developed a number of strategies to make the working day efficient and to...

If redundancies are inevitable

Given the severity of the current crisis, it is unfortunately the case that some organisations are starting to look at the question of redundancies. This...

Guidelines for organisations facing big decisions

During the last recession, UK companies came up with innovative ways to retain staff while reducing costs, in an attempt to maintain a strong workforce...

News in Brief February 2020

Senior civil servant resigns claiming culture of bullying Sir Philip Rutnam dramatically resigned last week as Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, accusing Home Secretary...

Advice for employers on preparing for a UK coronavirus outbreak

Latest figures report at least 39 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in the UK. The risk of death to most working age people remains very low,...

Employee voice is the common thread in solutions to the changing workplace

It is a truism to say that the world of work is changing at an ever headier pace – unfortunately, it’s a truism that happens...

News in Brief January 2020

Younger generations struggle to connect at work A study of 2,000 office workers conducted by ecommerce site Furniture at Work has found that younger workers...

Don’t neglect the role of the workforce in meeting climate goals

With the formal adoption last year of a net zero carbon emissions target for 2050 and the forthcoming COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow this...

What will the new government do to the UK workplace?

The new year began with a new government, a degree of certainty over Brexit and a number of employment law developments already on the horizon....