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WEB3 days ago · We spend a third of our lives at work, yet many HR professionals still overlook the subtle poisons seeping into our professional environments. Fewer than one in 10 employees (9%) would choose to have a Christmas party, research by reward provider Love2Shop showed (10 September). Around two thirds (63%) of …
How has HR evolved in the last 25 years? - HR Magazine
WEBMay 16, 2016 · HR magazine is 25 years old. To celebrate we look back at the profession's growth into what we know today. BBC HR director Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth recalls what day-to-day life was like in the average HR, or rather ‘personnel’, department a quarter of a century ago: “We worked with paper employee files and, if lucky, basic spreadsheets of ...
Over half of UK employers now provide enhanced maternity and …
WEBMay 24, 2021 · Speaking to HR magazine, Axtens said: "More than 85% of Working Families employer members enhance maternity pay and over 90% enhance paternity pay. Additionally, 79% enhance SPL to match their maternity provision. "Employers tell us they find the benefits boost engagement, employee wellbeing, recruitment and retention outweigh the additional ...
Nearly 60% of employers unaware of employee wellbeing needs
WEBAug 22, 2024 · The findings are drawn from responses to a survey of 500 UK-based HR professionals. Nearly half (45%) of employers used direct feedback through line managers, to find out what health and wellbeing support their employees would find beneficial. Staff surveys were conducted by 43% of the employers surveyed, and 41% used formal reviews.
HR Magazine - Ethics and HR
WEBApr 16, 2019 · The risk is that an HR practitioner will find themselves bending at best (violating at worst) their personal ethics if they’re working in an unethical environment. “If you’re surrounded by people who are making decisions that maybe aren’t the most ethical it can be easy to be led astray,” Dicker warns.
HR Magazine - Breaking the silence: Employee voice
WEBJul 9, 2018 · Breaking the silence: Employee voice. Employees want their opinions and concerns heard at a strategic level, but there’s no one-voice-fits-all method. “Employee voice isn’t just a warm and cuddly agenda – it’s a hard-edged agenda about making sure your company is productive and innovative.”. So says Matthew Taylor, chief executive ...
HR Magazine - The Great Retirement - why older people are …
WEBApr 21, 2022 · Office for National Statistics sample data revealed retirement was the most common reason (47%) why workers aged 50 to 70 in Great Britain left their job since the start of the pandemic. This was followed by the pandemic (15%), illness or disability (13%) and stress or mental health reasons (10%). As these older employees leave the …
Rising to the occasion: How Greggs manages change
WEBNov 10, 2014 · For leading bakery and food-on-the-go retailer Greggs, “the competition has ratcheted up,” group people director Roisin Currie tells HR magazine, when we meet at the company’s surprisingly leafy, stately home HQ in Newcastle. Greggs, which has almost 1,700 shops around the UK, estimates it is second in the market for sandwiches, and ...
The evolution of HR: 1984 to 2014 and beyond, part two
WEBNov 26, 2014 · It is important to understand the historical backdrop, because it has been fundamental in shaping what HR is today. So far, we charted the progression of the function up to the 1980s. During that decade opinion around US-style human resource management was polarised. 'Hard' and 'soft' approaches were beginning to emerge. The 1990s.
HR Magazine - The evolution of HR: 1984 to 2014 and beyond
WEBNov 25, 2014 · The evolution of HR: 1984 to 2014 and beyond. Back in 1984, the working landscape was very different to the one we find ourselves in today. Personally I hadn’t yet reached the world of work and was busy studying at university, where my research involved borrowing books from the campus library and using the microfiche machine.