Throughout the year, HRZone will offer people professionals access to fresh news, evidence, tangible guidance and thought-provoking opinion on the world of work and HR in 2025 and beyond.
We welcome guest contributions from leading people practitioners and experts, providing the content is aligned with one of our themes and content types (see style guide).
If you would like to write for HRZone, please continue reading to understand what we look for from guest articles.
Core topics for 2025
We will publish relevant, fresh content throughout the year on the following topics related to the people profession.
- UK employment law and compliance: Timely updates and guidance on the release of new announcements
- Employee wellbeing: mental health and burn out, financial health, social wellbeing, rising loneliness and tech stress
- HR refresh: New operating models, automation and AI in HR, better protecting mental health of HR profession, improving HRs external reputation, data-driven HR strategies
- Workplace culture: trends, change stories, lessons learned, experimentation
- Equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging: Response to pushbacks, data-informed strategy, inclusive approaches to recruitment and the employee lifecycle, intersectionality, addressing systemic bias, inclusive tools and tech
- Trends in ways of working and work design: For example, four day workweeks, RTO mandates, progressive flexible working arrangements, job sharing, workations, results-only work environment, redesigning work to enhance wellbeing and purpose
- Future of work: technological transformation and AI integration, forecasting strategies, HR innovation and emerging operating models, redefining work and jobs, future skills requirements
- Leadership and management development: Human-centric approaches, leading in complexity, managing dispersed teams, leading multi-generational teams, reimagining development approaches, AI-informed leadership
- Behaviour at work: Managing difficult behaviour and conflict situations, effective behaviour change, commentary on sexual harassment and bullying allegations, most desired behaviours in workplace today
- Skills-based talent management and development: Skills-based workforce development approaches, continuous learning and upskilling at scale, AI and technology skills development, human-centric capabilities, personalised L&D, skills agility for an uncertain future
- Purpose, sustainability and ESG: Embedding sustainability into the employer value proposition (EVP), community impact programmes, green skills development and climate-conscious roles, ethical leadership, purpose-driven work
- Managing employee attrition: Research shows nearly one quarter of UK workers plan to quit their jobs in 2025. How can organisations drive better retention?
- Personalised employee experiences: Personalised AI-supported learning and development plans, customisable benefits, leveraging real-time feedback and employee listening tools.
Seasonal trends and awareness days
Here are the seasonal trends and key awareness dates we are interested in receiving pitches for:
January 2025
Key Dates:
- 19 January – World Religion Day
- 20 January – Blue Monday (mental health awareness)
February 2025
Awareness Months:
- LGBTQ+ History Month
- National Heart Month
Key Dates:
- 6 February – Time to Talk Day (mental health conversations)
- 17-23 February – Random Acts of Kindness Week
- ~28 February – Ramadan begins (Islam)
March 2025
Awareness Months:
- Endometriosis Awareness Month
- Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Key Dates:
- 2-8 March – NO MORE Week (Domestic and sexual violence)
- 3-8 March – National Careers Week
- 7 March – Employee Appreciation Day
- 8 March – International Women’s Day
- 17-23 March – Neurodiversity Celebration Week
- 20 March – International Day of Happiness
April 2025
Awareness Months:
- Stress Awareness Month
- National Pet Month
- Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
Key Dates:
- 7 April – World Health Day
- 22 April – Earth Day
- 28 April – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
May 2025
Awareness Months:
- Mental Health Awareness Month
Key Dates:
- 12-18 May – Learning at Work Week
- 20 May – International HR Day
- 21 May – World Day for Cultural Diversity
June 2025
Awareness Months:
- Pride Month
- Men’s Health Month
Key Dates:
- 1 June – Global Day of Parents
- 5 June – World Environment Day
- 9-15 June – Men’s Health Week
- 20 June – World Refugee Day
July 2025
Key Dates:
- 30 July – International Day of Friendship
August 2025
Key Dates:
- 5 August – Cycle to Work Day
- 26 August – Women’s Equality Day
September 2025
Awareness Months:
- Festival of Learning Month
- Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Key Dates:
- 8-12 September – National Inclusion Week
October 2025
Awareness Months:
- Black History Month (UK)
- ADHD Awareness Month
Key Dates:
- 6-10 October – National Work Life Week
- 10 October – World Mental Health Day
- 18 October – World Menopause Day
November 2025
Awareness Months:
- Movember (Men’s Health Awareness)
- National Career Development Month
Key Dates:
- 3-7 November – International Stress Awareness Week
- 14 November – 20 December – UK Disability History Month
- 19 November – International Men’s Day
- 25 November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
December 2025
Key Dates:
- 3 December – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 12 December – National Workplace Day of Remembrance
Seasonal trends
Winter
- Winter wellbeing: Looking after wellbeing during the most difficult month of the year
- Financial wellbeing: when bills go up due to cold, dark days
- Low morale after a long year and loss of daylight – season of scarcity and exhaustion after a long year
- Festive season, New Year and fresh start effect: Reasons to celebrate and enjoy winter, and look forward to new beginnings
Spring
- New beginnings: The end of a long winter, the season of new life, the return of the sun and wellbeing
- Festivities and celebration: Easter, carnival, May Day, and many other religious periods that fall during Spring
- Spring budget and financial opportunity
Summer
- Making the most out of the season of abundance, plenty and wellbeing
- Summer holidays: childcare, workcations, summer holidays, heatwaves
Autumn
- End of summer, loss of daylight and receding weather
- Fresh start and the magic of Autumn
- Financial refresh: Strategy and budgets
- Graduates and recruitment
Current trends
We also welcome articles that explore the HR / L&D impact of current affairs, such as:
- State of economy
- Outed toxic organisations / leaders
- Changing employment legislation
- Marginalisation and prejudice of underrepresented groups
Pitching articles
Please email your article pitch to editor@hrzone.com
What to include:
- Working title
- Author details
- Content type (see style guide)
- Short synopsis: 100-200 words
- Proposed deadline
