Peter Cheese, CEO of CIPD, on why skills utilisation and job quality are key to improving output Last month I talked about the immediate challenges confronting us as a profession, but also holding on to a longer-term vision and sense of purpose, both...

As another year turns over, we naturally look back as well as forwards. Sometimes, single words can sum up a complex view. If the word of the year last year was ‘unprecedented’, the word of the year this year, according to the Collins Dic...

Peter Cheese, Chief Executive, CIPD. The statement, ‘may you live in interesting times’, has often been attributed to an old Chinese curse. Whether accurate or not, the fact is that we are living in times of great turbulence and uncertai...

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is an essential theme in business today. Fairness, tolerance and access to opportunity are principles that should underlay any responsible business, and are fundamental to getting the best out of people. Divers...

It’s been an unbelievable ten years since I joined the CIPD as chief executive in July 2012. I was as excited then about the opportunity to help our profession and professional body as I continue to be now, but couldn’t possibly have imag...

Peter Cheese, Chief Executive, CIPD. When we consider the future of the people profession, it’s important we engage with and listen to those coming into the profession. Students studying for CIPD qualifications will bring new expectations, idea...

Work can and should be a force for good, but the CIPD’s Good Work Index 2021 shows that job quality still falls short in a number of areas. Issues like lack of work-life balance, lack of development and high workloads a...

By Peter Cheese, Chief Executive and Bijal Majithia, Head of Inclusion and Diversity, CIPD25 May 2021 marks one year since the murder of George Floyd, and the response it provoked in so many communities. Solidarity marches and gatherings took place f...

Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPDA chance to reflect: one year on since the first UK lockdown.On the National Day of Reflection, Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, remembers the people we have all lost over the last year.Today,&...

The terrible kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard while walking home in South London has been a significant trigger of both grief and anger around violence and harassment towards women, and the demands for change. There is a real sense from so man...

By Peter Cheese, CEOWishing you a very happy new year.I’m sure we’ve all welcomed the new year as a time to look ahead and put a very difficult year behind us. However, we can see that the next few months will continue to be bli...

By Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD.Today’s announcement by the Prime Minister of a new Lifetime Skills Guarantee is a bold ambition but much more needs to be done to make this a reality. The measures set out today, such as providing free college cours...

The events of the last few weeks have challenged us all to question how we understand racism in the world, and our part in addressing it. Whilst ethnicity and difference is part of humanity and what makes us who we ...

The world of work has been evolving faster than ever before. Rapid developments in technology, as well as attitudes and expectations have been shifting the nature of jobs and how and where we work, and these trends will very likely accelerate as...

By Peter Cheese, CEO at the CIPD.As attention and government guidance everywhere shifts to the next phase of the crisis and lock down restrictions begin to ease, how we approach a return to places of work is looking significantly ...

By Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD There's little doubt that we'll all see a lot of change in the next 10 years. Much is uncertain and hard to predict, although we can see many of the drivers for change now. From the acceleration of technology in al...

Happy New Year! If 2019 continues like our first full week back at CIPD HQ, we’re in for another intriguing and unpredictable year. Political change, economic uncertainty, and changes in the world of work will all continue to shape the context ...

Today we will be sharing our new Profession Map for the first time with thousands of people professionals at our Annual Conference and Exhibition. The Map sets out the international standard for practitioners to make their greatest impact and thrive ...

Happy New Year! And what another interesting, and probably unpredictable year 2018 is set to be. We are in times of significant change, and forces like Brexit, new disruptive technologies and changes to how, where and when we work will continue to sh...

The skills of our workforces are critical to productivity, innovation and growth. With the advances of technology, changes in the workplace, and projections for the future, many are predicting that up to half the jobs we do today could disappear in t...

According to the 2016 Gender Pay Gap report from the World Economic Forum, it will take a staggering 170 years to close the world’s gender pay gap at current rates of progress. This reflects both the lower participation levels of women in the l...

In what many are describing as a ‘post-truth’ world, where experts are less trusted and we are all bombarded with information and limitless opinions via social media, developing our careers as professionals takes on a wider importance. Ca...

Recent years have brought a growing debate and disquiet about income and wages growth and inequalities. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, average wages growth has flattened in most of the advanced economies and many economists are predicting...

This time last year, I reflected on a year of remarkable cultural, economic and political change. 2016 has probably brought even more surprises from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union to the hotly contested presidential elections in the...

November will see thousands of HR and L&D practitioners gathering at our Annual Conference and Exhibition. It’s always a great source of pride to see so many people committed to their continuing professional development, and it provides an ...