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  • Date:
    12 December 2024
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    The evolving people profession: HR departments research 2025

    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

    The evolving people profession: HR & Compliance Centre research of HR teams

    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?

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR roles and responsibilities 2023 survey: Key metrics

    The 21st annual XpertHR survey of the HR function reports on key metrics for the profession, including trends in the ratio of HR practitioners to employees, as well as key priorities for the year ahead and where HR is spending its time.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Employers' response to the cost-of-living crisis: HR & Compliance Centre survey 2022

    Pay settlements have risen to their highest levels for 30 years, but most still fall short of inflation. We look at how the pressure on living standards caused by the cost-of-living crisis means employers are looking at other levers to support employees.

  • Date:
    22 March 2022
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: HR careers and roles - what our surveys reveal

    Noelle Murphy, senior HR practice editor at XpertHR, explores the findings from XpertHR's recent HR careers survey including the impact of the pandemic and hybrid working practices on HR professionals and discusses priorities and challenges on the HR agenda.

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