The issue of job quality might seem less important than it did six months ago in light of the devastating effect Covid-19 is having on people’s health, their economic security and employment prospects. As unemployment rises during lockdown and ...

By Petunia Thomas, MBA CPCC Black colleagues and network groups have been dealing with, at a conscious and subconscious level: their own experiences of racism past and present, the external atrocity of George Floyd’s murder and countless others...

By Ben Wilmott, Head of Public Policy, CIPD Greater transparency over workforce diversity can help drive change. Recent events have again demonstrated that racial injustice and inequality remains a fact of life for far too many people and contin...

Andy Young is Managing Director within the Talent and Organisation Practice at Accenture.It would be an understatement to say the past few months have been different. Many organisations have had to redeploy, upskill, or reskill staff q...

By Mark Beatson We know already that the economic news in the short-term will be dire.  How dire will depend in part on how productive the millions of people working from home have been. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a massive increase in hom...

By Lizzie Crowley, Senior Policy Adviser - Skills.Learning at work has never been more important. Learning builds skill sets, supports career development, enhances job satisfaction and retention, and supports improved workforce productivity. In times...

By Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy at CIPD.As UK businesses wait to see the UK Government’s employer guidance on working safely when lockdown measures are eased, they should also prepare for the bigge...

By Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser at CIPD. The Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey is now live…The impact of the coronavirus means that the way organisations resource and plan their workforce is changing rapidly. The CIPD ...

By Adrian Wakeling, Senior Policy Advisor, Acas  “It's a cliché but when this is over, I'll never, EVER take anything for granted again …. we thought we were awake, but we were truly sleepwalking”&nbsp...

By Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy The announcement that the Government’s Job Retention Scheme is to be extended until at least the end of June is extremely welcome but leaves considerable uncertainty about what happens then. Friday’s...

Author: Paddy Smith, Public Affairs Manager Over the past month the Government has announced its interventions to support businesses and workers through the COVID-19 crisis. These have included loans and financial support through the Self-Employed In...

By Ian Brinkley, former chief economist, CIPD  There is no doubt that unemployment will rise a lot and employment will fall due to COVID-19. The extent will not be known for some months, until th...

By Nick Pahl, CEO Society of Occupational Medicine.Our lives have seen massive change, with new uncertainty and challenges. We have missed people and our mind has wandered. There is stress and pressure from the fear of infection and feeling isol...

By Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser at CIPD. The CIPD welcomes new legal right to paid parental bereavement leave – Jack’s LawLucy Herd, Jack’s Mother and prominent campaigner, and Claire McCartney, senior policy ad...

By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Policy Advisor - Labour Market. UK productivity growth of 0.3% over the past ten years recently won the Royal Statistical Society’s accolade as the ‘statistic of the decade’. However, analysis of the la...

Lizzie Crowley, Senior Policy Advisor - Skills The world of work is rapidly changing, impacting on how organisations approach learning at work. In this fast-changing world, learning needs to evolve and it must be accessible and agile. Many organisati...

By Brad Taylor, Director of People and OD at the CIPD.Within organisations across the UK, there is a growing need to support the mental health of their employees. In the last year, 39% of UK employees experienced mental-ill-health where work was...

By Dr Aideen Young, Evidence Manager, the Centre for Ageing BetterOur research shows that workers in later life want work that they find personally meaningful, intellectually stimulating and sociable. They want jobs that are flexible and come with op...

In June, Stonewall were delighted to attend CIPD’s Festival of Work conference and deliver a workshop on LGBT-inclusive workplaces. Sarah Campbell, Head of Conferences and Events at Stonewall talks about the session, top tips, and how the audie...

By Jon Boys, Labour Market Economist at the CIPD. In this blog we ask, who works at the weekend? 1 in 5 of us that work, do so on the weekend but this proportion differs markedly by various characteristics. Most important is the type of job someone d...

By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser, CIPD; Tony Vickers-Byrne, Chief Adviser HR Practice, CIPD; Andrew Walker FCIPD FCPFA, formerly Director General HR, House of Commons and Nick Pahl, Chief Executive, Society of Occupational Medicine Occupational ...

This week the Government published Health is everyone’s business – a public consultation on a range of measures to reduce ill health-related job loss. It is seeking views on how employers can best support disabled people and people with l...

By Deborah Garlick, Director, Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace and Claire McCartney, Co-Director of Inclusive Talent and Associate, CIPD The menopause is an important workplace issue that affects many employees, and we were delighted that it fea...

By Rob Neil, Head of Culture Change and Leadership, Department for Education. "Not everything that is faced can be changed, yet nothing can be changed until it is faced" James Baldwin This uncomfortable and imposing truth is one which ...

By Gill Dix, Head of Workplace Policy, Acas As the public debate, the media, and society have opened up to the mental health agenda, workplaces and employers, quite rightly, are gradually becoming more attuned. The Government-commissioned Steven...