Shareholder pressure has led 30 FTSE 100 companies to cut their pension payments for executives over the past year. Analysis of the 2019 AGM season by the Investment Association (IA) revealed what the body called “significant changes” including 17 companies committing to awarding new

While research shows employees are in favour of a four-day week and increased flexibility, most firms still only offer traditional working hours. Three-quarters (75%) of UK adults are in favour of a four-day working week, even if it means they have to squeeze their

The struggle to recruit is still on. In fact, advertised vacancies increased by 4.2 percent year-on-year in Q1 2019, while job applications dropped by 4.8 percent. Contributor Lee Biggins, founder and CEO – CV-Library. The report, which compared data from Q1 2019 with the

Ending employers’ ability to ask candidates about their salary history could help tackle gender and ethnicity pay gaps, writes Jon Heuvel, but there are doubts over whether the law is really the best way of dealing with the issue. Cincinnati, Ohio, recently became the

In today’s competitive hiring market, your team needs an effective onboarding program in place — or employees won’t hesitate to seek opportunities elsewhere. Your team’s onboarding process is critical to the success of your employees. Without effective onboarding, it will take longer for employees

Only 13% of employees believe the learning opportunities they’ve been given over the past year have been very effective, according to new research from Kineo, part of City & Guilds Group. It found that although four-fifths of UK employees it surveyed said their organisation

Learning professionals not collecting or making use of insights to inform content, says survey. L&D professionals are not utilising people analytics to make the most of their limited training resources, leaving them “in the dark” about how effective their learning strategies really are, according

With Brexit encouraging a growing number of organisations to establish themselves abroad, Ben Wright explores three people management challenges that are often ignored when companies expand quickly. Human capital management is an often expensive, time-consuming and complex challenge, but it becomes more difficult to

HR and recruitment is the business function that’s made the least progress in using data and insight to optimise and measure performance, according to business leaders Capita Resourcing’s survey of 350 HR and recruitment specialists, 500 business leaders, and more than 2,000 employees, found

Despite the importance of HR departments, it seems HR professionals are being left out of strategic Boardroom meetings. This news comes after research released by HR recruitment specialist Reed HR, discovered that one in four HR professionals are not involved in key strategic business