Responding to coronavirus

• Impact of COVID-19 on the L&D profession
  Our report reveals the lessons learnt by L&D professionals as they adapted their practices in response to the pandemic
  
  
• Guide to providing virtual work experience placements
  Plan your online work experience programme to support young people with their school-to-work transition through the pandemic
  
  
• COVID-19 and the youth labour market
  An assessment of the effectiveness of UK Government initiatives to support young people to access apprenticeships, traineeship and work placements
  
  
• Survey: Learning and skills at work
  Our latest report and case studies examine how learning and development practices and the overall L&D landscape transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  
• Digital learning in a post-COVID-19 economy
  This literature review explores how digital learning can support upskilling and reskilling for the post-pandemic recovery
  
  
• Employers’ guide to youth employment and UK training programmes
  Advice for organisations seeking to help young people access employment and training opportunities

• Webinar: CIPD coronavirus webinar series: Understanding the impact of long-COVID
  Watch our webinar and learn more about the impact of long-COVID, how you can best support employees grappling with the condition and managing a return to work after a long absence
  
  
• Guide: Managing a return to work after long-term absence
  Guides for HR professionals and line managers on the key considerations for managing an effective return to work for employees who have been on long-term absence, including for those suffering from long COVID
  
  
• Stepping up to support people with long COVID
  Blog outlining how to effectively manage and support people suffering from ‘post-COVID-19 syndrome’ and its long-term health consequences
  
  
• Q: What is long COVID, and is an employee with it suffering from a disability?
  FAQ from our Business continuity FAQs offering advice on long COVID
  
  
• Q: How do employers manage employees suffering from the effects of long COVID?
  FAQ from our Business continuity FAQs offering advice on long COVID
  
  
• Webinar: In it for the long haul: supporting employee health and wellbeing
  Watch our webinar and download slides for expert advice on how you can provide ongoing support for the health and wellbeing of your employees, including those living with long COVID
  
  
• CIPD Community discussion on long COVID
  Community forum discussions where CIPD members can seek advice and connect with other HR professionals. 
  
  
• Mental wellbeing and digital work: an evidence review
  Review of scientific research on how work-related factors – including digital work – affect mental wellbeing 
  
  
• Guide: Compassionate bereavement support for employees
  This guide gives practical advice for employers on supporting grieving employees
  
  
• Guide: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Mental health support for employees
  This guide outlines considerations and provides advice on how mental health can be supported during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  
• Webinar: looking after your remote teams
  Watch this webinar for advice on supporting the health and wellbeing of your remote working teams
  
  
• Webinar: looking after key workers
  Watch this webinar for advice on supporting the health and wellbeing of workers classed as essential
  
  
• Webinar: HR wellbeing: looking after yourself and your HR teams
  Watch this webinar on protecting the health and well-being of people professionals
  
  
• Webinar: managing the psychological impact of COVID-19
  Watch this webinar on how to support staff dealing with anxiety and the psychological impact of COVID-19
  
  
• Webinar: Health and wellbeing
  Watch this webinar on health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  
• Guide: People managers’ guide to mental health
  This guide contains practical advice to help managers facilitate conversations about stress and mental ill health
  
  
• Factsheet: Mental health in the workplace
  This factsheet explores mental health issues in the workplace focusing on supporting employees’ mental health
  
  
• FAQ: How do we get across to those who want to return to work for their wellbeing and social interaction, that with social distancing, the return to the workplace could make them feel worse?
  Answers to FAQs about planning and managing a return to the workplace
  
  
• Podcast: Managing the wellbeing of remote workers
  This podcast explores how managers can best support the well-being of their remote workforce
  
  
• 10 top tips for healthy remote working
  Top tips on best practice for line managing remote workers
  
  
• CIPD member wellbeing helpline
  CIPD members can access free help and support 24/7/365 via telephone or online to support your mental health and wellbeing during these challenging times 
  
  
• Guide: Mental health and returning to the workplace
  This guide outlines advice on how mental health can be supported as lockdown ends
  
  
• Health and safety topic page
  This page will help you understand UK laws on health, safety and stress at work, including employers' obligations
  
  
• Wellbeing topic page
  Learn about the benefits of an effective well-being programme for your organisation and employees 

Other resources

• SOM: COVID-19 return to work guide
  The CIPD have worked in partnership with Society of Occupational Medicine and other organisations to produce advice leaflet for employees on recovering from long COVID and returning to work.
  
  
• COVID-19 return to work guide: For managers
  Leaflet offering guidance from Occupational Health (OH) Professionals on how managers can support workers to get back to work with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19 infection and long COVID.
  
  
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): long-term health effects
  Information about post-acute COVID-19, also known as long COVID.
  
  
• Acas: Long COVID
  Advice for employers and employees
  
  
• SOM: COVID-19 return to work guide
  The CIPD has contributed to this guidance from Occupational Health Professionals on how workers can manage getting back to work after COVID-19 infection and Long COVID.

Remote working resources

• Top tips: Getting the most from remote working
  Our series of top tips will help you and your team get the most out of homeworking
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• FAQs: remote working
  Answers to frequently asked questions about managing employees who are working remotely
  
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• Line manager guide: managing remote workers
  This guide will help you to support employees who are working remotely
  
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• Podcast: Managing the well-being of remote workers
  This podcast explores how best to support the well-being of a remote workforce
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• Report: Developing effective virtual teams 
  This report provides insight and practice recommendations for running effective remote teams
  
  
• Nutshell: Understanding remote working and employee wellbeing 
  This article review outlines the examination of relevant research, and the summary of the potential advantages and disadvantages of remote working for employees 
  
  
• Nusthell: Reducing stress and burnout for remote workers
  This article review considers the importance of good quality management practices in reducing stress and burnout while working from home
  
  
• Report: Developing effective virtual teams 
  This report provides insight and practice recommendations for running effective remote teams
  
  
• Webinar: Looking after your remote teams
  This webinar recording looks supporting the health and wellbeing of your remote working teams
  
  
• Webinar: Remote working: maintaining productivity
  This webinar recording looks at how employers and people professionals can keep remote workers motivated and engaged
  
  
• Report: Megatrends: Working from home – what’s driving the trend in remote working?
  This report examines the key drivers behind the rise in homeworking
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• Course: Managing remote teams
  CIPD online course on managing remote teams
  

Hybrid working resources

Guides and case studies

• Hybrid meetings top tips
  Top tips on conducting effective hybrid meetings (where some participants attend in person and some attend remotely)
  
  
• Hybrid working case studies
  Four case studies, featuring people managers who say a permanent blend of office and homeworking will make their businesses stronger and employees happier
  
  
• Guide: Planning for hybrid working
  This guide advises on how organisations can begin to prepare for a return to the workplace and a longer term move to hybrid working
  
  
• Guide: Line manager guide on supporting hybrid working
  Advice for line managers on supporting and enabling hybrid working 

• Guide: Flexible working during the pandemic and beyond
  Use this guide to plan your flexible working approach following the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  

Tools

• Tool: Assessing roles for hybrid working flowchart
  Use our flowchart to assess roles for hybrid working, considering the nature of the work undertaken in a role
  
  
• Support materials: Planning hybrid working questionnaires
  Use our questionnaire templates to kick off discussions around hybrid working and agree flexible working arrangements
  
  
• Questionnaire: Supporting ongoing homeworking
  Use our questionnaire to help your staff to continue to work from home
  
  

Webinars

• Webinar: Solving the hybrid working challenge
  Watch our webinar to hear from the UK Government’s Flexible Working Taskforce and explore how to implement hybrid working in your organisation
  
  
• Acas advice for employers on how to consider, discuss and introduce hybrid working
  Resources, including a webinar, created as part of the government's Flexible Working Taskforce
  
  
• Webinar: Returning to the workplace: hybrid working
  Watch our webinar to learn from experts about how organisations can facilitate a smooth and safe return to their physical workplace
  
  
• Webinar: Inclusive cultures: facilitating hybrid working
  Watch a video and download slides from our webinar discussing how people professionals can make hybrid working cultures as inclusive as possible
  
  

Reports and articles

• Insight: Home and hybrid working: current employment law essentials for people professionals
  What do HR practitioners need to know and do regarding contractual issues and health and safety law?
  
  
• Report: Flexible working arrangements and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  Data shows a drop in all forms of flexible working arrangements - other than homeworking - since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  
• Report: Working from home - assessing the research evidence
  Preliminary recommendations arising from enforced homeworking during the COVID-19 lockdown
  
  
• Work Smarter to Live Better: Report by Microsoft, looking at ways in which workforces have adapted during the pandemic and how organisations continue to re-imagine the new world of work. Based on in-depth interviews and a YouGov research survey, the results were analysed in partnership with the CIPD
  

Other resources

Health and Safety Executive guidance: Managing home workers' health and safety

Working Families resources

• COVID-19 vaccination: guide for employers
  Advice for employers to and manage the impact of the vaccine rollout on their workforce
  
  
• Vaccination and testing FAQs
  Answers to frequently asked questions about vaccinations and protecting your workforce through testing.
  
  
• Webinar 11 February 2021: COVID-19 vaccine and the workplace
  Watch our webinar and download resources to explore how to approach the vaccination of your workforce and the legal implications you should consider
  
  
• Returning to the workplace – the role of COVID-19 testing
  Watch our webinar and download slides to explore the practicalities and legal implications employers should consider around COVID-19 testing
  
  
• Annual leave, travel and quarantine FAQs
  Answers to frequently asked questions about managing annual leave, travel and quarantine.
  
  
• Self-isolation and Test and trace FAQs
  Answers to frequently asked questions about managing employees who are contacted by the Test and Trace service and who are required to self-isolate
  
  
• Consultation response: Making vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes
  Read the CIPD's submission to the Department of Health and Social Care 

• Guide: post-furlough
  This guide outlines the options employers can consider once the furlough scheme ends
  
  
• Guide: Redundancy
  This guide explains how the COVID-19 pandemic and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme impacts on redundancy procedures
  
  
• Resourcing and talent planning survey
  Our trend analysis and benchmarking data on recruitment, workforce planning and retention will help HR and employers map their pandemic
  
  
• Advice for UK employers
  This factsheet provides advice on supporting your UK business and workforce through the coronavirus pandemic
  
  
• Advice for Irish employers
  This factsheet provides advice on supporting your business and workforce in Ireland through the coronavirus pandemic
  
  
• Advice for GCC employers
  Understand how to support your business and workforce in the GCC through the coronavirus pandemic
  
  
• Advice for APAC employers
  Understand how to support your business and workforce in APAC through this global health emergency
  
  
• Survey: Impact of COVID-19 on working lives
  New findings and analysis on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on working lives
  
  
• HR-inform: Support materials
  Access practical materials on supporting businesses and workforces through a global health emergency
  
  
• Podcast: Business survival in the age of COVID-19
  This podcast explores the ways organisations can be designed to enable flexibility in the face of a crisis