Blogging about the issues that matter to HR and L&D
By Brad Taylor, Director of People, OD and Workplace at the CIPD Being in lockdown presented many people with the opportunity to undertake one of the biggest working from home experiments of all time. This had been talked about for so long and yet many organisations never quite achieved the right construct so that people could work effectively...
Profession
12 Apr, 2021 13:00
A continuously updated bank of 'go to' discussions on every topic imaginable
By Research 3 days ago
By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD. Employee wellbeing has been high on the list of priorities for organisations and people professionals alike in the past year. According to data reported in our People Profession in 2...
By Scotland 6 days ago
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser By the time you read this blog, it will only be a few hours until the polls open across Scotland for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. The sixth session of Parliament with 129 new (and returni...
By Scotland 28 Apr, 2021 12:12
By Sandy Begbie CBE, CEO at Scottish Financial Enterprise and author of Young Person's Guarantee report I was delighted to have the opportunity to join you in the plenary discussion at the recent CIPD Scotland conference. I left reassured by the lev...
By Public Policy 22 Apr, 2021 08:56
By Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy at the CIPD and Abdul Wahab, Inclusion and Diversity Adviser at the CIPDThe Commission's conclusions fail to reflect the evidence and undermine efforts to tackle racism and discrimination in the UK. Examination...
By Profession 12 Apr, 2021 13:00
By Brad Taylor, Director of People, OD and Workplace at the CIPD Being in lockdown presented many people with the opportunity to undertake one of the biggest working from home experiments of all time. This had been talked about for so long and yet ma...
By Studentblog 9 Apr, 2021 14:00
Daphne Doody, Head of CIPD Northern England. I had the absolute pleasure of chairing our very first online student conference, which attracted an impressive turnout of over 1300 CIPD students and early career professionals not only from across t...
By Public Policy 7 Apr, 2021 16:31
Dr Scarlett Brown, Policy Consultant. Last week added more evidence to the argument (as if we needed more) that you can’t build a successful business without investing in your people. Deliveroo and Uber demonstrate the risks that...
By Public Policy 7 Apr, 2021 12:50
The reporting deadline for employers to file their gender pay gap figures for 2020 has just passed and we’ve carried out some initial analysis to get an understanding of the lay of the land. We found the median gender pay gap was 12.8%, or for ...
By CIPD Member Blog 31 Mar, 2021 16:34
Natalie Ellis Assoc CIPD, is the author of 'Launch Your HR Career' and runs HR Consultancy, Rebox HR I decided to embark on a career in HR nearly 15 years ago and secured my first job by selling the transferrable skills that I...
By Northern Ireland 30 Mar, 2021 15:58
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. Getting skills policy right is crucial – not just for our post-COVID recovery, but for longer-term prospects in the face of rapidly changing economies. This is just as relevant in...
By Scotland 29 Mar, 2021 08:10
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. Could the tide be turning on upskilling and reskilling policy? With additional funding announced in the Scottish Budget for the National Transition Training Fund (aimed at adults at risk of redund...
By Scotland 24 Mar, 2021 11:29
By Gail Irvine, Senior Policy and Development Officer at the Carnegie UK Trust The COVID-19 labour market As the UK first went into lockdown, I wrote in a blog contemplating the impact of the crisis on working lives: ‘Widespread disruptio...
By Peter Cheese 23 Mar, 2021 08:00
Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPDA chance to reflect: one year on since the first UK lockdown.On the National Day of Reflection, Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, remembers the people we have all lost over the last year.Today,&...
By Research 19 Mar, 2021 13:45
Mel Green & Gill Maxwell, Research Advisors On 23 March 2021 this year the National Day of Reflection in the UK will commemorate lives lost to COVID-19 and we will stand together with everyone who is grieving. In supporting this m...
By Peter Cheese 17 Mar, 2021 16:09
The terrible kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard while walking home in South London has been a significant trigger of both grief and anger around violence and harassment towards women, and the demands for change. There is a real sense from so man...
By Reward 15 Mar, 2021 14:03
Karleen Dowden, Regional Partnerships Manager, North East, Money and Pensions Service The latest CIPD Reward Management Survey found that less than half of employers (49%) have a financial wellbeing policy in plac...
By Public Policy 8 Mar, 2021 08:00
Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, Resourcing & InclusionThis month sees the celebration of International Women’s day on 8 March and the accompanying call to recognise women’s achievement, raise awa...
By Reward 5 Mar, 2021 00:01
Charles Cotton, Senior Policy Adviser, Performance and Reward As data reported in my previous blog posts and in the latest CIPD Reward Management survey show, indicators of in-work poverty have increased since the start of the pandemic. This should b...
By Scotland 1 Mar, 2021 09:46
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. In just under 10 weeks, on 6th May 2021, people in Scotland will head to the polls to elect 129 new MSPs. It is fair to say, this election will be like no other election before it. We still f...
By Public Policy 1 Mar, 2021 08:00
By guest blogger and CIPD Member Gemma Dale.I was delighted to see the new campaign from the CIPD, calling on organisations and the government to make the right to request flexibly working from the first day of employment. The law relating to flexibl...
By David 25 Feb, 2021 12:28
By David D'Souza, Membership Director at the CIPDApproximately once a year, media attention will alight on an organisation that has no HR function because ‘they don’t believe in that type of thing’ or the CEO has had a bad ...
By Public Policy 24 Feb, 2021 10:36
Charles Cotton, senior policy adviser, performance and reward. Gender pay gap reporting is an important tool for ensuring that the way we manage, develop and reward people is fair. Employers can boost the impact of...
By CIPD Member Blog 23 Feb, 2021 18:12
By Margaret Walsh FCIPD, managing director at Margaret Walsh Consulting So much is expected of line managers, particularly in these turbulent pandemic times as businesses have to adapt quickly and with great agility to ever changing economic and soci...
By Profession 16 Feb, 2021 13:11
Alexandra Carr, Community Lead, CIPD Growing and enabling our communities is part of our organisational strategy at CIPD and is essential to meet our objectives in championing better work and working lives. Bringing together our internal teams ...
By Northern Ireland 1 Feb, 2021 16:02
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. With CIPD members driving workplace skills development across many businesses, skills policy is one of our key areas of interest. The Northern Ireland Executive, and the Department of the Eco...