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All items: Strategic HR

  • Employment Rights Bill essentials: Flexible working requests

    Date:
    21 January 2025

    In the second part of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Bill, we look at the proposed changes to the right to make a flexible working request.

  • On your radar

    Date:
    9 January 2025

    This is your overview of employment law developments that are in the pipeline, where you can learn what's happening, what might be happening and what isn't happening, as well as how you can start preparing for upcoming changes.

  • Five HR priorities for 2025

    Date:
    11 December 2024

    As 2024 draws to a close, HR teams are turning their attention to the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in 2025. Insights from our annual HR departments research reveals the five key areas where HR professionals will focus their efforts in the coming year, from leader and manager development to enhancing employee wellbeing.

  • AI fundamentals: AI's expanding role in HR in 2024 and predictions for 2025

    Date:
    9 December 2024

    AI continued to transform HR in 2024. In this review of the year's major technological movements, Tessa Hilson-Greener, author of HR2035, looks at the key tool performers and uptake trends, and offers some predictions for 2025.

  • UK vs US: Who comes out on top for employee rights?

    Date:
    27 November 2024

    On both sides of the Atlantic, global employers are bracing themselves for the wide-ranging changes to key employee rights that are on the horizon.

  • What Another Trump Administration Means for HR in the US

    Date:
    7 November 2024

    This resource summarizes how another Trump presidency may affect key employment law issues that directly impact HR, including EEO, wage and hour and payroll among others.

  • Strategies for a competitive and cost-effective employee benefits package

    Date:
    31 October 2024

    Employee benefits have evolved significantly over the past few years, going beyond basic offerings such as health insurance and annual leave. Today, they can range from perks like wellness programmes to complex offerings such as matching contribution pension schemes. But with budgets stretched and costs rising, how do you make your organisation's money go further - and make sure employees really feel the benefit?

  • The changing people profession

    Date:
    24 October 2024

    In the first of a new series, we ask Damien Williams, Lead HR Business Partner at KPMG, to reflect on his experience of the people profession and how it is evolving.

  • Right to disconnect: What can the UK learn from other countries?

    Date:
    3 October 2024

    The UK Government is seeking to introduce the right to "switch off", which will allow workers to disconnect from work and not be contacted by their employer outside working hours. Labour has indicated that it intends to follow the models in Ireland and Belgium but with the details of the legislation still unclear, what clues can employers glean from these and other countries' approaches to the right to disconnect?

  • M&A integration planning - seven key questions for HR leaders to ask

    Date:
    2 October 2024

    As an HR leader you sit at the centre of M&A integration. This is an opportunity to drive real business change - executing a plan based on your business' goals positions you for integration and deal success. Steve Allan sets out the seven questions you need to be asking to prepare for success.

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