As we emerge from the pandemic, it’s important that people professionals take a moment to assess the impact they have within their organisation. Has their standing increased? How can the profession add the most value across the business?  ...

Katie Jacobs, Senior Stakeholder Lead, CIPD. The coronavirus pandemic has often been referred to as leading to the world’s largest working from home experiment. During the first lockdown in the UK, almost half (47%) of all UK workers spent...

Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, CIPD. Organisational responses to COVID-19 have sparked people professionals’ upskilling The COVID-19 context has dominated the world of work for the last two years, igniting widespread changes in workplaces...

Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, CIPD. Improvements in the employee experience underpin retentionIn 2022, the people profession is still very much in the organisational spotlight in managing ongoing changes to working practices. The CIPD has anal...

By Dr Nadia Kougiannou, Dr Sarah Pass and Professor Helen Shipton, Nottingham Trent University. Although voice has been seen as an instrument for mutual gain, it is also integral to employee attitudes and feelings at work (Wilkinson et al., 2014...

By Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, and Jane McDonald, CIPD Ireland’s HR Projects and Engagement Manager Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, and Jane McDonald, Ireland's HR Projects and Engagement Manager encourage you to have your say!We a...

By Brad Taylor, Director of People, OD and Workplace at the CIPD Being in lockdown presented many people with the opportunity to undertake one of the biggest working from home experiments of all time. This had been talked about for so long and yet ma...

Alexandra Carr, Community Lead, CIPD Growing and enabling our communities is part of our organisational strategy at CIPD and is essential  to meet our objectives in championing better work and working lives. Bringing together our internal teams ...

By Charlotte Campion, Projects Officer, Social Impact and InnovationKeeping your professional skills and knowledge up to date has always been an important means of performing at your peak as a People Professional. However, we know that individual lea...

By Jemeela Quraishi, Social Impact and Innovation Lead Volunteering Do people professionals have the time or energy to volunteer right now? That was the question the Social Impact team at the CIPD were asking at the start of lockdown. Over...

By Ruth Cornish (FCIPD), Founder Amelore Ltd, Co-founder HR Independents Ltd. There’s never been a more exciting time to work independently as a people professional, with opportunities growing in the current climate. Although the CIPD&rsqu...

By Sinead Costello, Head of Partnerships at the CIPD. Customers want an experience: Our customers appreciated feeling part of a community and wanted some escapism from everyday working life. Creating the feeling of being at an event through gra...

By Sinead Costello, Head of Partnerships at the CIPD. In June 2020 the CIPD and Haymarket ran our first-ever digital Festival of Work, bringing people professionals content on the future of work at a time when they needed support and guidance like ne...

Over the past few years, as employment in the UK has continued to rise, there has been a shift in the focus of government and policymakers beyond merely the quantity of work in the economy, and now looking more closely at the quality of work. As...

Andrew Cooper is General Manager and Human Resources Manager for Parkway Cinemas, based in the UK. The Parkway Entertainment company has a strong family history, one which boasts an independent mindset. A nine-screen multiplex in Cleethorpes offers a...

As organisations and people professionals navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, many are reflecting on how the current situation will have a long-term impact on how and where we work. One thing is for certain – COVID-19 has been a huge disruptor in a...

At the end of 2019, with the 2010s about to draw to a close, many of us were reflecting on the significant changes to the people profession in the recent past. Wellbeing and health had risen fast up the agenda for businesses, AI and automation were n...

Alastair Swindlehurst is an independent HR consultant, based in Manchester, UK. During the last three months I’ve been asked a number of times, how are things? In truth I can only think of one word. Chaos.If you know me, you know this is true....

By Krystyna Gadd, Founder of How to Accelerate Learning, based in Leeds, UK.At first there was very little impact on me due to COVID 19, because I had some work in Belfast, which got transferred online as result of lockdown. It was meant to be a face...

Dr Madeleine Petzer, Senior Lecturer in HRM at Liverpool John Moores University  The Mental Health Foundation’s 2018 Stress: Are we coping? report found that 74% of people in the UK have at some...

By Charlotte Haynes, Projects Officer at CIPD (Social Impact and Innovation team) Graduates and school leavers hoping to enter the job market this summer are now facing bleak employment prospects. This is &ldqu...

Kirsty Robinson is Director at CutTheMustard HR, and is based in Yorkshire, UK The coronavirus pandemic has meant that like many others, I’ve had to be really creative about how I run my business whilst balancing the needs of my family. With t...

By Ian Pettigrew of Kingfisher Coaching, based in Manchester, UK.  The coronavirus pandemic initially had little impact on my work, other than switching to online, and I continued to be busy. Some of my work has always been online, so this was ...

An online community doesn’t just happen because you set up a website – it needs filling, prodding, stimulating, provoking and managing. That's the role of the community manager and that has been my pleasure for the last 16 years. But ...

Alexandra Carr is Community Lead for CIPD Branches Branch volunteers have demonstrated passion and commitment to the profession during the crisis —  without doubt they've been HR heroes. We’ve seen their commitment and donat...