Podcasts and webinars

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  • Podcast: Employment Rights Act 2025 harassment changes - a fresh perspective from the high seas

    Date:
    14 May 2026

    Some major changes are coming to the harassment laws in October. Global inequalities specialist - and licensed skipper - Georgie Williams joins the podcast to talk about what it's like to draw up an anti-harassment policy on a ship. What does it mean when you can't "clock off" and go home in the way you can with land-based office jobs? How does this change dynamics? What challenges does this raise?

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Act special - how organisation design can help businesses in a period of profound change

    Date:
    29 April 2026

    Organisation design expert and From-To founder Lilian Duckart joins Brightmine HR strategy and practice editor Laura Kimpton to discuss how HR departments can use organisation design to meet the changing needs of their business - and how AI can help.

  • Podcast: The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!

    Date:
    14 April 2026

    Research suggests that AI is making a nonsense of the traditional equivalence between output and productivity and creating a new category of worker: the person who is thriving themselves into exhaustion. Jeremy Hollander joins the podcast to discuss how HR can tackle these issues by upgrading productivity measurements to distinguish sustainable high performance from intensity that is destined to end in burnout.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Act 2025 - will women in the workplace benefit?

    Date:
    16 February 2026

    Caroline Green, author of The Career Confidence Toolkit for Women, joins the podcast to discuss measures in the Government's Employment Rights Act 2025 - harassment and flexible working reforms, menopause action plans - and set out ways in which employers and employees alike can benefit from the forthcoming legislative changes.

  • Webinar: Employment Rights Act 2025 - a user's guide

    Date:
    22 January 2026

    In this webinar, employment law specialist Darren Newman sets out a road map to guide you safely through the implementation of the Act's many different strands - including what to look out for, and what not to forget.

  • Podcast: HR priorities for 2026 - top tips for a great year

    Date:
    10 December 2025

    Drawing on our latest research data, Brightmine content managers Bar Huberman and Sheila Attwood set out the key priorities for HR and reward professionals in 2026. CEO Scott Walker also joins the podcast to discuss one of the key trends of recent years - AI in the workplace.

  • Webinar: Setting up for 2026 - HR and reward priorities

    Date:
    10 December 2025

    Brightmine content managers Bar Huberman and Sheila Attwood deep-dive into the key priorities for HR and reward professionals in 2026 and explore the latest Brightmine research data to discover how other organisations are approaching them. They provide expert guidance on practical strategies to navigate the challenges and stay ahead.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - preparing for the April 2026 changes

    Date:
    1 December 2025

    Join the Brightmine team as they guide listeners through the Employment Rights Bill's bumpy journey through Parliament and offer practical advice on how HR professionals can prepare for the legislative changes expected to come into force in early 2024.

  • Webinar: Employment Rights Act 2025 - HR's countdown to April 2026

    Date:
    26 November 2025

    HR professionals must ready themselves for the first big tranche of changes taking place in April 2026. In this webinar, recorded shortly before the Employment Rights Act 2025 passed into law, we explain what these amendments are and what employers can do to prepare for them.

  • Podcast: Employment Rights Bill - the whats and whens of the trade union-related reforms

    Date:
    17 November 2025

    With the Employment Rights Bill nearing the end of its journey through Parliament, Laura Merrylees, senior legal editor at Brightmine, is joined by Nick Chronias, a partner at DAC Beachcroft, to discuss the Bill's many trade union-related changes.

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