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We’re now a quarter of the way through the 21 st century. The last 25 years have seen immense change, from technological developments, to geopolitical change and environmental concerns, and I think we...
By 1 Dec, 2020 15:54
Brad Taylor, Director of People, OD and Workplace at the CIPD, outlines how the CIPD has continued to meet the Mental Health at Work Commitment during an unprecedented year. Caring for people’s mental health is a big responsibility and on...
By 17 Nov, 2020 16:50
Gerwyn Davies, Senior Policy Adviser at the CIPD, outlines how the labour market is evolving as a result of the pandemic. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) labour market statistics highlight a dramatic fall in the number of EU-born cit...
By 17 Nov, 2020 10:54
The last nine months have been tough on everyone, with our experiences of the pandemic and lockdowns being highly personal. Those on the frontline, whether in healthcare or other essential roles, have been putting themselves at risk, day in, day out,...
By 16 Nov, 2020 10:26
By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPDHow organisations can prevent bullying and negative conflict occurring at work, and how to resolve it when it does.The theme of this year’s Anti-...
By 13 Nov, 2020 16:19
Marek Zemanik, Senior Policy Advisor for CIPD Scotland Marek Zemanik discusses how the next Scottish Budget will be very different compared to any other because of the impacts of COVID-19 The last budget before an election is usually a big deal. You ...
By 9 Nov, 2020 14:24
By Charles Cotton, Senior Reward Advisor at the CIPD. This week is Talk Money Week , an annual awareness-raising campaign, organised by the Money and Pension Services (MaPS), to get people talking about money.&n...
By 9 Nov, 2020 09:00
By Donna Catley, Chief People Officer, Compass Group UK and Ireland The COVID-19 crisis has seen essential frontline workers move from being an invisible workforce to being identified as the nation’s “key workers”. A light has righ...
By 5 Nov, 2020 15:02
To mark Stress Awareness Week we asked Kate Bicknell, Head of People and Culture at Fideres Partners , how they have approached managing stress during the pandemic.We explore the initiatives they put in place, the advice they’ve given managers a...
By 3 Nov, 2020 16:21
By Rob Vondy, Head of Stress Policy at The Health and Safety Executive As we recognise National Stress Awareness day, this anniversary is like no other given the impact of the global pandemic.Work-related Stress is a priority health t...
By 2 Nov, 2020 10:45
Stress Awareness Week marks an opportunity to take stock of the added pressures many are facing due to COVID-19, and what we can do to manage them. CIPD Policy Adviser, Rachel Suff explores this topic.The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the wh...
By 28 Oct, 2020 10:49
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Scotland. The global pandemic has affected the lives of us all. We are beginning to see some of the longer-term impacts materialising, even though there is no end in sight yet. A speeding up of digital ...
By 16 Oct, 2020 16:19
By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD Rules and regulations can’t always keep pace with real life. The UK Government’s new Job Support Scheme , announced on 24 September, is already having to be extended to support businesses forced to ...
By 9 Oct, 2020 17:40
With the Government’s Furlough scheme ending this month, fear about large-scale job losses loom large. A third (33%) of employers intended to make redundancies over the last financial quarter, a...
By 9 Oct, 2020 11:22
The way we work has changed almost beyond all recognition in the last six months. But even before the pandemic profound societal, economic and technological shifts were impacting the world of work. Any change to the world of work is by its very natur...
By 6 Oct, 2020 11:50
By Beth McMaw Considine, CIPD Northern Ireland Branch Chair. As we settle into autumn, with cooler temperatures, shorter days and increasing COVID-19 related restrictions, I’d like to share with you, our members, some reflections on “well...
By 29 Sep, 2020 17:17
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...
By 16 Sep, 2020 16:03
By Paddy Smith, Public Affairs Manager. An integral part of the CIPD’s mission to champion better work and working lives is to drive change with government and policy makers that improves the world of work for all. We do this through our p...
By 14 Sep, 2020 17:12
By Deborah Garlick, Director, Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace . During the course of the last six months, the world’s attention has been firmly focused on Covid-19. Its effects have been pervasive, touching on almost every aspect of o...
By 14 Sep, 2020 12:24
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Scotland. Recent years have seen an increased focus from both the UK and Scottish governments to tackle what policymakers refer to as the disability employment gap - the difference between the employmen...
By 8 Sep, 2020 14:38
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 7 Sep, 2020 09:44
Coronavirus has brought on history’s largest ever remote working experiment. At the peak of lockdown, some 20 million people were working from home in the UK (pre-COVID only about 1.7 million UK workers classed themselves as home workers). As p...
By 3 Sep, 2020 13:09
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 26 Aug, 2020 16:22
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Scotland.Provided everything goes as planned, you are reading this blog while I am on paternity leave. This is my third time and, despite my children being born within just over five years, it will be a...
By 25 Aug, 2020 16:22
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 25 Aug, 2020 16:02
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...
