What’s the point? Why HR should embrace absurdity at work
HR professionals can benefit from recognizing workplace absurdity—contradictions between organizational rhetoric and reality that undermine employee engagement and meaning. By acknowledging these patterns rather than trying to control them with more rules, HR leaders can address deeper issues affecting workplace culture and fulfillment.
Talent management: 8 ways to reshape your people strategy
Organizations with the strongest financial returns are refreshing their talent management strategies to navigate business disruption, according to research comparing shareholder returns with people practices across leading global companies. Effective recruitment, development, and reward systems are essential for attracting talent and delivering investor value in today’s uncertain economic landscape.
The recruitment evolution: five predictions for 2019
Recruitment in 2019 will see major shifts toward candidate-centric approaches and two-way communication, driven by AI adoption and the war for talent. Companies will transition from traditional applicant tracking systems to candidate relationship management software while leveraging data analytics and video interviews to engage passive candidates.
How to bring customer experience and employee experience closer together
Aligning employee experience with customer experience directly impacts business performance. When companies empower frontline staff, listen to their needs, and provide autonomy and resources, engaged employees deliver higher customer satisfaction, productivity, and profitability.
How to combat the looming UK staffing crisis
The UK faces a significant staffing crisis, particularly in hospitality, with hundreds of thousands of vacant positions and potential workforce losses post-Brexit. Businesses can address this challenge by improving recruitment practices, distinguishing job offers, and showcasing career pathways to attract and retain employees.
10 ways to unleash the potential of dyslexic employees
Discover 10 practical strategies to support dyslexic employees and unlock their potential. With approximately 2.9 million dyslexic workers in Britain, creating an inclusive workplace through mentoring, diagnostic assessments, and accessible content benefits everyone.
Employee experience: the five practices that will create a more ‘human’ workplace
To compete for talent, organizations must prioritize employee experience—creating workplaces where employees feel valued, connected, and empowered to contribute meaningfully. Five key practices centered on belonging, purpose, achievement, happiness, and vigor help foster this human-centered approach.
6 ways to mobilise ‘coasters’ in the workplace
Over one-third of UK employees are coasting through their careers, often due to unhappiness with workplace conditions. Employers can re-engage this disaffected group by understanding their needs, showing genuine interest, and empowering line managers, which improves productivity while reducing costly turnover.
What 2019 holds for diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Building on 2018’s progress with gender pay gap reporting and the #MeToo movement, 2019 will require HR to focus on creating truly collaborative, diverse workplaces. Three key trends will shape the year: reforming internal gender recognition practices, engaging men in gender equality initiatives, and driving customer-focused diversity changes.
Follower-focused leadership: how to become a better manager
Effective leadership comes from understanding your followers and closing the gap between theory and practice, rather than mastering business concepts alone. Different leadership approaches work in different situations, so successful managers must find the theories and styles that fit their unique organizational context.
Standing up for the workplace wellbeing profession
Health and wellbeing professionals aim to improve organizational and employee health by creating supportive, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. The profession faces misconceptions about its value, but research shows it delivers competitive advantages in performance, engagement, recruitment, and retention.
Workplace wellness in 2019: seven quick hacks to ensure maximum engagement
Discover seven practical strategies to boost workplace wellness engagement in 2019. Learn how to understand employee needs, curate relevant programs, build confidence through challenges, and ensure your wellness initiatives resonate with all staff members, not just the usual participants.
Most-read HRZone articles of 2018
Discover the top 10 most-read HRZone articles of 2018, covering people analytics, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and remote working. See what HR professionals were reading and ensure you haven’t missed essential insights from industry experts.
99% perspiration: the challenge of being a midlife professional woman
Midlife professional women face unique challenges balancing work, caregiving, and menopause symptoms, yet most workplaces lack support or flexibility for this valuable cohort. HR leaders must address these needs to retain experienced talent and prevent high-performing women from leaving to start their own businesses.
Wearable technology: what’s the impact on workplace wellbeing?
Wearable technology and health apps are transforming workplace wellbeing by providing data-driven insights to improve employee health outcomes and ROI. Organizations can use wearables to identify health risks, tailor wellness programs, and create a positive wellbeing culture based on actionable employee data.
How to help your employees become more resilient
Organizations can boost employee resilience by fostering openness, providing stress management training, and modeling healthy work practices. Key barriers like emotional avoidance and boundary-setting challenges often stem from workplace culture rather than individual shortcomings alone.
Why wellbeing in the workplace is a joint effort
Workplace wellbeing requires collaboration between employers and employees. Employers must offer meaningful benefits like flexible working and wellness programs, while employees need to actively engage with these offerings. Effective two-way communication ensures initiatives truly support staff needs.
Is our use of technology doing more harm than good?
Technology offers significant benefits like staying connected and working flexibly, but our constant dependence on devices comes with hidden costs. UK adults spend over eight hours daily on screens, with frequent phone checking triggering stress responses that may harm our physical and mental health.
How can HR managers make the case for investing in culture?
HR managers can secure investment in workplace culture by measuring it with quantifiable tools like cultural assessments that calculate “cultural entropy”—the financial cost of dysfunction through employee turnover and wasted time. Presenting culture as a measurable business metric rather than a soft concept helps convince C-suite executives of its tangible impact on performance and profitability.
Book review: Who can you Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together – and Why It Could Drive Us Apart
Rachel Botsman explores how technology has fundamentally transformed trust through three distinct ages: from local community trust to institutional trust to distributed trust via digital platforms. This insightful review examines how breaches of institutional trust have shaped modern society and examines both opportunities and risks of platform-based trust systems.
