Keeping movement in mind: Mobilities and the employee experience
Movements or ‘mobilities’ are an important part of the employee experience, with implications for workers’ identities and wellbeing. How can HR better address global mobility through its practices and policies? Tom Calvard, HRM Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Business School, explores…
Lessons from LEGO – what brought them back from the brink
In 2003 LEGO was on the verge of bankruptcy. Twenty years later it is still smashing double-figure growth. Ella Overshott shares how their purpose and culture drive transformed LEGO and underpins their success today.
Banning unpaid internships: A guide for HR professionals
Employment lawyer Emma Gross shares key details on Labour’s proposals to ban unpaid internships and promoting fair opportunities in the UK job market.
The courts have banned ‘fire and rehire’ – or have they?
Henry Clinton-Davis examines fire and rehire policies following the recent Tesco court ruling.
The hidden costs of back pain in the workplace
Back pain is a critical health concern that can impact employee engagement. Mila Aleshina, co-founder of Incorpo Studio, Pilates and Mobility Coach shares why and how to address this crucial issue.
Inclusion starts with empathy
To mark National Inclusion Week 2024, Jack Mizel explores why empathy is the key foundation block to building an inclusive organisation.
Asda follows Next’s pay equity battle: The claims shaking up retail
Employment partner Jon Heuvel examines recent equal pay cases, in light of Asda recently hitting the headlines for its own.
‘Playing the race card’: What underpins a proof-seeking leader?
The challenge of the intangible nature of diversity, equity and inclusion, and how we push past never knowing the ‘truth’.
How to address diversity, equity and inclusion backlash
Workplace backlash to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is nothing new. But it remains an ongoing barrier to progressive organisations. Here, Professor Tom Calvard outlines two ways for HR to approach this complex challenge.
How to build an inclusive wellbeing programme
For NIW 2024, Joanne Swann from Workplace Wellbeing Professional guides leaders ready to make meaningful impact through an inclusive wellbeing programme.
#ImpactMatters: Four top players in workplace diversity and inclusion
Many organisations struggle to deliver impact on their diversity and inclusion efforts. But not these four companies.
A pale, male – hopefully not stale – EDI tale
Andrew Loveless provides a ‘pale, male’ (hopefully not stale) EDI leadership perspective – revisited three years on.
Whose lived experience is more important?
For National Inclusion Week 2024 (23-29 September), our leadership columnist Judith Germain examines the importance of accepting diverse lived experiences in the workplace.
Labour’s Menopause Action Plan: Why small companies should keep up or get left behind
Under Labour’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’, firms with 250+ staff will soon need to produce Menopause Action Plans. But should smaller companies follow suit?
Five barriers to good listening habits
Are you oblivious to your poor listening skills? Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch of Distinction Business Consulting share overlooked barriers to good listening habits and how to remove them.
How to foster better collaboration within teams
Great teams are the mechanism to create extraordinary value, but that potential is only realised with shared clarity on how ‘greatness’ is lived and breathed.
Will you let them fire the doorman?
Human experiences are under threat from our obsessions with efficiency, cost, and, now, AI. As the world becomes lost in these imperatives, HR must step up and work across the boardroom to show how the doorman exists not merely to open doors, but to create value that lasts.
Landlords banning working from home
Kate Palmer shares employment law implications of new data that suggests landlords are moving more and more towards banning working from home.
Amazon salary hike deemed “too little, too late” by union
Amazon has raised minimum rates for UK workers by nearly 10% after winning a union recognition bid against GMB.
Modern workplace culture trends: Becky Norman on HRchat podcast
Our very own Becky Norman, Managing editor of HRZone, joins the HRchat podcast to discuss four commonalities among people-focused, high-performing organisations.
