Why financial wellbeing in 2025 will reclaim the spotlight
At the start of every year, Gethin Nadin explores the latest trends, research findings and employee benefit strategies to help guide your financial wellbeing approach. Here’s what you need to know for 2025.
Your survival guide: Seven strategies to prevent HR burnout in 2025
Seven research-backed strategies to help you prevent and combat HR burnout while fostering resilience and wellbeing in 2025.
McDonald’s faces new harassment claims one year after signing pledge with EHRC
Fast-food chain, McDonald’s, is once again facing scrutiny for its abhorrent failure to protect employees from harm, as more workers make claims over sexual harassment.
10 HR predictions for 2025
What’s coming in the year ahead for HR and the world of work? We share predictions from experts in wellbeing, leadership, culture and transformational HR.
The lost art of team building
Have we forgotten the importance of team-building in our haste to ‘get things done’?
‘Rust out’ vs Burnout: What is the difference?
Psychologist and mental health expert Dr Audrey Tang lays out the signs and differences between burnout and companion term ‘rust out’, alongside how to address these issues.
2025 HR and work trends: Employees push back
2025 will be a year of tensions between senior leaders and their people, unless HR professionals step in to mend relationships. Here, Blaire Palmer, CEO of That People Thing, shares her thinking behind four likely trends (and challenges) for the HR profession in the year ahead.
How to have great new year career conversations
It’s that time of the year when many look for a fresh career adventure, be that a project, promotion, secondment or a new role outside of your organisation. Dr Helmut Schuster and Dr David Oxley, Co authors of A Career Carol, offer four principles for how to have open, helpful career conversations with your people.
Christmas survival tips for jaded HR professionals
Tips to help jaded HR folk survive and thrive through the holiday season.
Workaholism, health and strategies to break away from unhealthy patterns
Workaholism has severe implications for a person’s health and wellbeing and has a high risk of resulting in burnout.
Seven ways to protect mental health and morale during the festive season
The festive season is not all fun. For many, this time of the year can significantly impact mental health and motivation levels.
Teamwork redefined: How to build a collaborative workplace culture
An annual teambuilding event does not support the effective practices of daily teamworking. Andrew Loveless of Pecan Partnership outlines why organisations need to redefine teamwork to drive 360 collaboration, offering seven practical ways to get started.
Pushback against EDI is an opportunity, not a barrier
Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is facing backlash, with objections like cost, fairness and division dominating debates. Here, Atif Choudhury explores these concerns, debunks myths, and highlights the transformative potential of an ‘anticipatory welcome’.
Preparing HR for 2030: Ten intentions to drive future success
How can HR build itself into a highly influential, change-driving, tech-bolstered profession by 2030? Gethin Nadin sets out ten intentions to help us get there…
Gregg Wallace lessons: How to deal with the power of ‘talent’
Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace is the latest of several celebrities outed for allegations of inappropriate behaviour. This begs the question: how can HR better deal with the potential for abuse of power, including sexual harassment, by ‘talent’?
How to protect workplace relationships in an era of artificial intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is burrowing into many corners of our work lives. But what value does the technology offer when human cooperation is so vital to success? Quentin Millington of Marble Brook examines how AI helps or harms workplace relationships.
Break the corporate mould: How authentic employee personality unlocks next-level innovation
Is your organisation slow to innovate? Corporate conformity may be holding you back. Employee engagement consultant Grace Lancer explores how to create a truly creative environment where quirks and individuality are welcome.
How talent fluidity helps HR leaders build a future-ready workforce
The talent management environment has changed, and HR leaders must refocus their efforts to create greater talent fluidity.
Workplace utopia: Let’s imagine what could be
Explore Nick Elston’s vision of a workplace utopia where flexibility, wellbeing, and mental health support take centre stage, creating a balanced and productive environment for all.
Keir Starmer’s jobs push: Does it go deep enough?
The UK government has announced plans to overhaul the jobs market and ‘Get Britain Working Again’. But will the proposed reforms adequately address the real employment blockers?
