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By 18 May, 2020 17:20
Charlotte May, based in the UK, is a HR Advisor at Risual. These are strange times indeed I had never anticipated that my relatively new HR career would include dealing with a crisis of this magnitude. Yet, here we are! The individuals in my or...
By 18 May, 2020 16:59
Based in Scotland, Nicola Hewitt is Head of HR at Common Thread. Coronavirus. We hear it 100 times a day at the moment, but what did it mean for my organisation and my team? Well, we are a residential childcare provider with some schools too, so the ...
By 18 May, 2020 15:48
Based in Singapore, Kwek Kok Kwong is CEO of NTUC LearningHub (LHUB). COVID-19 is an unprecedented event and warrants an unprecedented response. At NTUC LearningHub (LHUB), that mindset has driven our actions as an organisation over the last two mont...
By 18 May, 2020 09:35
Almost nine in ten (88%) employers are concerned about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic could have on employees’ mental health, according to a survey of over 1,000 employers carried out in April by YouGov on behalf of the CIPD. A quarter (25%) ...
By 15 May, 2020 10:19
Our experts answering today's questions include Gemma Dale, HR leader, speaker, writer and award-winning blogger. Gemma is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Joining Gemma is David D’Souza, Membership Director of the CIPD.Q1 When the #coronavi...
By 8 May, 2020 09:41
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 6 May, 2020 15:03
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is posing a range of unprecedented challenges to people professionals. Decisions which will affect both the livelihoods and working lives of employees a...
By 6 May, 2020 07:59
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 1 May, 2020 16:23
Introduction There’s no getting away from it – a global health crisis is triggering a global economic crisis. Estimates vary from country to country, but to see the Scottish Government’s Chief Economist predict a 33% fall in Scottis...
By 1 May, 2020 11:22
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog on HR director priorities during the coronavirus pandemic, based on my conversations with CHROs one-on-one and in small groups. Things are moving so fast currently that two weeks could as well be two months. Whe...
By 30 Apr, 2020 11:17
Since the advent of COVID-19 some of the challenges that people professionals are facing are unprecedented. Now more than ever, we all need a strong foundation giving us the confidence and capabilities to guide our decision making, ...
By 30 Apr, 2020 09:34
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 27 Apr, 2020 12:20
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” ...
By 22 Apr, 2020 17:24
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...
By 22 Apr, 2020 14:50
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 17 Apr, 2020 10:26
To help our members and followers navigate these uncertain times we have been running a series of Twitter Q&As, with the help of both internal and external experts in the respective fields. Two of our Q&As have discussed furlough (due to popu...
By 16 Apr, 2020 09:17
In all those prediction pieces published in December 2019, not one predicted this. Our world has been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. Organisations and leaders have been forced to shift gear and priorities rapidly and radically. In th...
By 14 Apr, 2020 11:56
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 7 Apr, 2020 15:00
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 7 Apr, 2020 10:28
By David D'Souza, Membership Director at the CIPD. About 1 in 10 of our members at the CIPD are independent practitioners. That means we have around 15,000 members who are working outside of organisations doing a range of things – from...
By 3 Apr, 2020 11:53
It’s still hard to absorb the exceptional situation that the country – indeed the world – is facing in the context of COVID-19. As the infection and death rate from the pandemic continues its sharp upwards trajectory in the UK,...
By 26 Mar, 2020 17:28
By Charles Cotton, Reward Adviser at the CIPD.The COVID-19 outbreak is putting employers, employees and HR departments under incredible and unprecedented pressure. In light of which, it’s not too surprising that&nb...
By 24 Mar, 2020 14:49
By David D'Souza, Membership Director at the CIPD. The past few weeks have seen unprecedented levels of change in our way of life, with the impact on people and organisations being impossible to avoid. The impact has been overwhelming f...
By 20 Mar, 2020 11:32
By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance.I was fortunate enough to attend one of the 2020 Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s conferences a couple of weeks ago. This event, which was held in Edinburgh, focused o...
By 16 Mar, 2020 16:09
By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance.There are just two weeks to go before employers must disclose their gender pay gap data (31 March for the public sector and 4 April for the private sector). To date, while around ...