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.
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.
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’.
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.
HRZone’s 2024 most popular reads
What caught your attention in the 2024 HR sphere? It’s time to reveal our 12 most popular reads on HRZone…
ERGs and disclosure: Finding the missing link
Do you have bustling employee resource groups but low formal disclosure rates? Scarlett James of Diversity and Ability outlines what’s missing from your approach.
Equal Pay Day: Gender pay gap widens for first time in over a decade
This year, women will work for an extra five weeks to earn the same as their male counterparts. To mark 2024’s Equal Pay Day, reward specialist Holly Coe looks at the macro and local level changes required to close this widening gap.
Financial inclusion through earned wage access: Breaking down barriers
What you pay your employees has always been important. But now HOW you pay them is too. Learn more about earned wage access and how it offers financial inclusion and a lifeline to employees experiencing money troubles.
Disabled people predicted the future of work: It’s time to listen
The social model of disability offers a proven framework for HR teams to create inclusive workplaces by removing barriers rather than ‘fixing’ individuals: a practice long championed by disabled communities.
DEI fatigue: Why are we so tired of diversity, equity and inclusion?
DEI fatigue is on the rise within organisations. Discover the causes of it and how to combat it below.
Difficult colleagues: Relationships with people who think differently
Struggling to work with difficult people? Quentin Millington of Marble Brook explores the Strengths Deployment Inventory and why the problem so often lies in a clash of motives rather than toxic behaviours.
Menopause Awareness Month: Throw away your tick-box
With over 240 awareness days, weeks and months, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the diversity and inclusion calendar. Here are ten tips to creating an inclusive workplace culture, any day of the week.
Worker Protection Act: Organisations are STILL not prepared
The clock is ticking… the Worker Protection Act comes into effect on October 26th 2024, and yet many UK businesses are still not ready. Workplace relationships expert Ele Wilson outlines how to take action.
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.
‘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.
#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.
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.
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.
