Your 2025 people strategy: a six-step HR guide

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It’s that time of the year when HR leaders need to carve out space in overloaded schedules to build a robust 2025 people strategy. To help this process, QS’ Head of People Hannah Gore shares her six-step guide to strategy-building success.

Menopause Awareness Month: Throw away your tick-box

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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.

The hidden costs of back pain in the workplace

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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.

Whose lived experience is more important?

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For National Inclusion Week 2024 (23-29 September), our leadership columnist Judith Germain examines the importance of accepting diverse lived experiences in the workplace.

Why coaching is the answer to everything

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Organisations today grapple with an ever-changing environment, hybrid and flexible working, multi-generational diverse workforces and growing levels of stress and burnout. Could coaching be the answer to all of these complexities?

Alcohol abuse in the workplace: Spot the signs and support

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With 17 million working days lost each year in the UK because of alcohol-related sickness, this is an issue that HR needs to be alive to. Alcohol misuse does not discriminate, so having preventive and supportive measures is important for all organisations.