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HR roles and responsibilities

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  • Date:
    5 December 2025
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR departments research 2025

    Our annual HR departments research explores how HR departments are operating and evolving to meet the changing needs of their organisation.

  • Date:
    5 December 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Top HR priorities for 2026

    From navigating major employment law reforms to boosting line manager capability, our latest HR departments research reveals the initiatives that will define HR strategy in the year ahead.

  • Date:
    4 December 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Inside HR: What drives, challenges and divides the profession?

    What does it feel like to work in HR today? We share insights from HR professionals across all levels, highlighting the realities of the job and what makes a role in HR rewarding.

  • Date:
    12 December 2024
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    The evolving people profession: HR departments research 2024

    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.

  • Date:
    11 December 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Five HR priorities for 2025

    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.

  • Date:
    3 July 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Mergers and acquisitions - HR's seat at the table

    Steve Allan joins us to talk about HR's role in mergers and acquisitions and offers five top tips for getting M&As right.

  • Date:
    1 May 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Three themes HR is likely to ignore in 2024 - but shouldn't!

    Every year it's the same: January rolls around and suggested priorities for HR abound. But with teams increasingly stretched, important issues then get cast aside or neglected. Here, as organisations find themselves deep into Q2, we draw attention to three themes that HR professionals are likely to overlook, based on what they have told us in our surveys. But, for the reasons explained here, they really shouldn't!

  • Date:
    23 February 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    HR strategy essentials: Laying the foundations for success

    Hearing that you are supposed to "be strategic" and create a strategy in your HR role can be incredibly daunting. That's probably because you've never been taught what it means or how to do it. Here, Fay Wallis offers clear, actionable steps to create a strategy that adds real value. 

  • Date:
    25 January 2024
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR roles and responsibilities 2024

    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.

  • Date:
    27 April 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Five steps to save yourself from burning out - help for struggling HR professionals

    According to a recent survey, 98 per cent of HR professionals said they had felt burned out in the past six months. In this episode we ask: What is burnout exactly? Why is it afflicting so many people working in HR? And - crucially - what can you do to keep burnout at bay?

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