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.
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.
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…
Hushed hybrid: The ticking talent time bomb
Hushed hybrid is the latest pushback against rising return-to-office mandates. How should people professionals respond to this trend? Culture expert Deborah Hartung shares six ways to gain senior buy-in for greater flexibility.
The new Labour landscape: Nine UK employment changes to prepare for
With the Labour party now leading the UK, employers will need to brace themselves for changes ahead. Here, we outline nine potential employment law reforms and how to prepare for them.
Work-life balance is outdated: Why HR should focus on integration
With the rise of remote and hybrid work environments in an increasingly flexible and shifting world, could it be time to send the concept of ‘work-life balance’ out to pasture?
Channelling chameleons: Why HR team’s must be agents of change in 2024
Just like chameleons, HR teams must be adaptable to changing surroundings. With their role being increasingly put under the public and social media microscope, adjusting quickly to new employment laws and policies is more important now than ever.
The Spring Budget 2024: Hints for HR on the future of work
The 2024 Spring Budget Statement offers subtle hints at a changing world of work. Culture expert Deborah Hartung postulates the direction we might be heading in, and how HR can adapt.
How employers can prepare for the influx of fresh employment law in 2024
Kate Palmer covers some of the big changes coming to employment law in 2024.
Hybrid working: Is two days in the office the magic number?
Employees are now spending on average two days in the office per week. Is this genuinely optimal or are we stuck in default mode?
Eight ways to ensure high-quality meetings
By prioritising quality over quantity we can ensure meetings pack a punch.
The four-day workweek revolution: Proving the UK government wrong
The government is trying to hold back progress – it’s time for organisations to fight back.
How workplaces can extinguish the flames of parental burnout
How employers can assist staff that may be struggling with parental burnout.
Should we follow Zoom’s lead in the home vs office debate?
Why we need to deliver a structured hybrid approach that works for the majority.
Summertime madness: How HR can ease the burden for working parents in the holidays
How HR can support working parents in the school holidays.
Leading hybrid teams: What are you doing wrong?
Why hybrid working is great for flexibility but bad for team building.
Why ‘fake flexibility’ just won’t cut it for working mums
Cultural change is needed to free the potential of working mothers; eliminating bias and encouraging flexibility.
Out in the cold: Gen Z feels isolated and unsupported
With increasing numbers of employees aged 20-24 years set to resign, HR needs to encourage better support from line managers
Why inclusive working, not hybrid working, should become the new norm
It may be the new way of working, but hybrid isn’t perfect and it won’t suit everyone
Seven hybrid working fails and how to avoid them
The types of hybrid working people don’t want – and how to avoid them.
