Strategic HR
Workforce planning is essential for ensuring that an organisation has the right talent and capabilities to ensure long-term workforce sustainability. In this report, you are able to benchmark your organisation against key recruitment metrics, understand how other organisations are dealing with hiring challenges, and get insights into priorities for workforce planning in 2025.
How transparent are UK organisations about pay? Our research explores this question, examining salary disclosures in job adverts, internal practices, and the potential impact of the EU Pay Transparency Directive on UK employers.
With pay gap analysis back in the spotlight, our research examines current practice in UK organisations - including employee data collection and types of pay analysis undertaken, as well as employer readiness for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.
HR professionals can demonstrate a number of different benefits from using AI, both in their individual work and the outcomes for their organisations. Yet they also face barriers to wider AI adoption. We share our findings on AI use by HR, and the practices used to maximise impact.
The 23rd annual HR & Compliance Centre survey on HR departments presents key metrics, including the HR-to-employee ratio; explores how HR teams are transforming and evolving; and highlights HR's priorities for 2025.
A great employee experience is crucial for getting the most out of employees and driving business success. Our research explores the current state of employee experience and organisational culture, as well as how organisations are measuring and enhancing it.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to disrupt the HR function as we know it. New research from XpertHR explores how organisations in the UK are adapting to advancements in AI technologies and the approaches to AI that have been adopted.
The 22nd annual XpertHR survey on HR roles and responsibilities explores how the profession is evolving with respect to job roles, capabilities and responsibilities. It also provides key metrics to understand the composition of the function across responding organisations.
XpertHR looks at the changing strategic focus for employee benefits packages, noting which are the most popular and how organisations involve employees in their benefits' choices.
We look at some of the less common benefits and allowances offered by organisations, including perks such as long-service awards, staff discount schemes and paid volunteering days.
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