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The future of internet addresses ending in '.io' – popular with tech startups – may be in doubt after the United Nations condemned the UK's continued ownership ...

How often have we been in situations where a brewing conflict has made us nervous, and the general thought that has mostly crossed our mind is to take an alternate route...

If you want change to stick you need to kick the bucket. This is something I often advise when I’m banging on about bringing about real – and lasting – organisational change.

Whilst a candidates’ job experience and qualifications may be the key elements that secure a job interview, the actual process of meeting with an employer is almost entirely....

The universal law of business: If you want to be the best, you must hire the best. Which is probably why hiring is one of the most challenging processes in a business.

The BBC is once again in the spotlight after it offered a more experienced male employee a higher salary than a woman in same role.

The role of the HR leader has never been so fascinating and complex.

More professions must be prioritised for Tier 2 visas, government told

Experts welcome Court of Appeal decision, which could have led organisations to cut maternity pay rates

Social worker faced ‘hostile environment’ as tribunal highlights ‘poor relationship’ with line manager

Lack of time pushing firms to consolidate approach to off-payroll reforms, with 15 per cent having ‘no idea at all’ about new rules

Modern medicine has triumphed on many fronts in conquering diseases and extending life, but its greatest advance is almost totally unsung.

Whether it’s mail, shopping, seeing someone or microwaving a meal. Today, we are fortunate enough to live in an age where most things like this are nearly instantaneous.

The number one question many umbrella companies are asked by their employees is:

Before Tiger Woods was two years old, his father Earl started teaching him to play golf. By the age of three he was on television; by the age of five he appeared in Golf Digest.

The highest number of applications came from Polish, Romanian and Italian citizens, the Home Office said.

In the first part of this six-part series on ‘Making HR truly strategic’, HR expert Jon Ingham makes the case for putting people at the heart of business strategy.

Work-related stress is on the rise, so it’s down to leadership teams to set a good example and take mental health more seriously.

The key to retaining talent is to offer continued career progression, but how can HR do this in the face of increased economic pressure and a volatile trading environment?

Having the intelligence and market knowledge to excel in your industry is the number one factor that will lead to a successful career, and maybe in an ideal world,

The Me Too campaign, which rose to prominence via the support of celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lawrence, has aided workers in feeling empowered

I was recently coaching an executive and the concept of people “stepping up to the plate” came up. This executive said he was having trouble getting his customer service team...

It’s been an exciting week in Brexitland. Prime Minister Theresa May was finally forced to admit that she hadn’t a snowflake’s hope in hell of getting her horrible deal through Parliament. Clean out of both ideas and support..

It was not even two months ago that Binyamin Netanyahu declared “a great victory” after his Likud party took 35 seats in a hard-fought election.

America is no fan of Huawei. Its officials have spent months warning that the Chinese giant’s smartphones and networking gear could be Trojan horses for Chinese spies

It is not just the country’s politics which are a mess; so is the structure they rest on

I’m sure you’ve read an article or listened to a podcast in recent weeks that had something to do with “the future of work”.

There’s a new study out that shows that men and women actually perform at different levels based on the temperature of the environment they are in.

The beautiful thing about working in human resources is all the people you get to deal with in your working day.

In our job, you come across all sorts of people and I don’t know about you but I, over the last 20 years in recruitment, have made genuine friendships with candidates and clients over time given our shared values and interests..

Harman International is a global leader in connected car technology, lifestyle audio, innovation design, and analytics. It figured out an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that will be launching across no less than 30 countries – want to know more?

No organization wants to burn out its employees. And yet, according to new research, companies’ efforts to prevent prolonged stress among their staffs are falling short.

‘IT engineer’ is the fastest growing job in Britain, with demand from employers outpacing that for any other role, according to data released by the world’s largest job site, Indeed.

A new report, “The Millennial Dad at Work” published today by Daddilife, the UK’s leading platform and community for millennial dads, reveals the seismic shift in how a new generation of working dads view their home and working life.

Reveals that despite 64% of Brits working more hours than they’re contracted to, over half (55.1%) struggle to make ends meet at the end of each month.

The recently published IR35 Forum Minutes of their last meeting of 28th February 2019 reveal that HMRC is going through the motions of trying to nail down an agreed interpretation of mutuality of obligation (MOO).

New projects, looming deadlines and approaching holidays are just some of the reasons why sometimes getting out of the office on-time can seem like a somewhat Herculean task.

Employees may quit their jobs for a number of reasons. For example, they may find their current job too stressful or feel their hours are too long, while others may want to improve their work-life balance.

It’s been a rough 18 months for Snap Inc, parent company of social media platform Snapchat; in October 2018 the brand’s stock fell dramatically by 10% to a new low of $6.84 – a massive 60% below its IPO price.

This investigation examines the Home Office’s response to suspected cheating in the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC).

According to a well-known story, Amos Tversky, the Israeli Nobel Prize winner who pioneered the scientific study of behavioral economics, was so freakishly smart that he inspired his academic colleagues to create an intelligence test based on him.

Theresa May has devoted her time in Downing Street to a single task: getting Britain out of the European Union.

There is a great deal written about how to create success, both for individuals, teams and organisations, but some of our experience suggests that success will come along quite easily if we can just avoid creating the circumstances for failure.

Employee wellbeing is “hot topic” right now, especially since Mental Health Awareness Week took place this month. Everyone is talking about how companies can do more to support staff and help them feel more fulfilled.

Credit Suisse has been identified as the highest paying company in the UK 2019, with several finance and tech firms also appearing in the top 25 ranking, according to new research from Glassdoor.

Billions of pounds of cost increase due to contractual change, delays introducing communication networks for our emergency services, potential strains on Army personnel – our recent reports

We all think about it, don’t we? We all want to believe in this notion that we only hire the best and brightest. We only hire the highest quality candidates. We are ‘highly’ selective!

Tribunal rules it was unfair for employer to ‘persist in requiring improvement’ once it knew administrator had cataracts

There’s nothing worse in business than firing someone.I’m not usually the one who does it at VaynerMedia anymore since we’ve grown to so many employees, but when I did I would spend a month figuring out how to make myself feel better about it.

Side hustlers, those who do a little extra around their working day...As many as one in four UK workers now have a ‘side-hustle’, with that figure expected to grow