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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 11 Jun, 2021 17:44
By Jon Boys, Labour Market Economist, CIPD. Recently I have heard a few references to the death of the 9 to 5 working arrangement. But how many people even do a 9 to 5? In this blog I show that most people do not work a typical 9 to 5. Defining...
By 11 Jun, 2021 10:03
By Dr Scarlett Brown, Policy Consultant, Corporate Governance and Responsible Business There is growing recognition that good culture and employment practices are a way of driving value in business, and of driving down risk ...
By 9 Jun, 2021 00:01
By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD. Despite the turbulence of 2020, and the subsequent impact on our workplaces, the Good Work Index 2021 finds that that job quality has generally remained stable in the past year. This might seem su...
By 1 Jun, 2021 08:00
I took on the volunteer role of Branch Chair for the CIPD Leicestershire branch in the Summer of 2020 – this was something a bit unusual for us as our committee had been operating successfully without a chair for the previous three years. Howev...
By 1 Jun, 2021 07:45
Louise Sorrell is HR Business Director at Badenoch + Clark. The economic shockwaves of the pandemic have forced many organisations to make redundancies. Often, it’s not a reflection of those employees&rsq...
By 31 May, 2021 07:45
Professor David Clutterbuck Chartered CCIPD is a pioneer in coaching and mentoring, an author and speaker, and practice lead for Coaching and Mentoring International Ltd.Fast on the heels of becoming a Chartered Companion of CIPD, I re...
By 28 May, 2021 07:00
By Lee Ann Panglea, Head of CIPD Scotland and Northern Ireland Throughout the course of the pandemic, organisations from across Northern Ireland have been forced to adapt at pace and implement changes in the way they operate whilst navigating uncert...
By 28 May, 2021 07:00
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 25 May, 2021 08:00
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...
By 24 May, 2021 16:55
By Dr Luke Fletcher, Associate Professor, University of Bath School of Management. Inclusion and diversity is an increasingly important area within people management practice, and the CIPD’s People Profession 2030 report also highlights this wi...
By 14 May, 2021 16:26
Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst, CIPD, looks at employment law changes in April/May 2021April is the month when statutory rates increase, and this year is no exception. Statutory maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental pay rose to £...
By 7 May, 2021 14:05
By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD. Employee wellbeing has been high on the list of priorities for organisations and people professionals alike in the past year. According to data reported in our People Profession in 2...
By 4 May, 2021 08:00
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser By the time you read this blog, it will only be a few hours until the polls open across Scotland for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. The sixth session of Parliament with 129 new (and returni...
By 28 Apr, 2021 12:12
By Sandy Begbie CBE, CEO at Scottish Financial Enterprise and author of Young Person's Guarantee report I was delighted to have the opportunity to join you in the plenary discussion at the recent CIPD Scotland conference. I left reassured by the lev...
By 22 Apr, 2021 09:56
By Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy at the CIPD and Abdul Wahab, Inclusion and Diversity Adviser at the CIPD. The Commission's conclusions fail to reflect the evidence and undermine efforts to tackle racism and discrimination in the UK. Exam...
By 12 Apr, 2021 14:00
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...
By 9 Apr, 2021 15:00
Daphne Doody, Head of CIPD Northern England. I had the absolute pleasure of chairing our very first online student conference, which attracted an impressive turnout of over 1300 CIPD students and early career professionals not only from across t...
By 7 Apr, 2021 17:31
Dr Scarlett Brown, Policy Consultant. Last week added more evidence to the argument (as if we needed more) that you can’t build a successful business without investing in your people. Deliveroo and Uber demonstrate the risks that...
By 7 Apr, 2021 13:50
The reporting deadline for employers to file their gender pay gap figures for 2020 has just passed and we’ve carried out some initial analysis to get an understanding of the lay of the land. We found the median gender pay gap was 12.8%, or for ...
By 31 Mar, 2021 17:34
Natalie Ellis Assoc CIPD, is the author of 'Launch Your HR Career' and runs HR Consultancy, Rebox HR. I decided to embark on a career in HR nearly 15 years ago and secured my first job by selling the transferrable skills...
By 30 Mar, 2021 16:58
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. Getting skills policy right is crucial – not just for our post-COVID recovery, but for longer-term prospects in the face of rapidly changing economies. This is just as relevant in...
By 29 Mar, 2021 09:10
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. Could the tide be turning on upskilling and reskilling policy? With additional funding announced in the Scottish Budget for the National Transition Training Fund (aimed at adults at risk of redund...
By 24 Mar, 2021 11:29
By Gail Irvine, Senior Policy and Development Officer at the Carnegie UK Trust The COVID-19 labour market As the UK first went into lockdown, I wrote in a blog contemplating the impact of the crisis on working lives: ‘Widespread disruptio...
By 23 Mar, 2021 08:00
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,&...
By 19 Mar, 2021 13:45
Mel Green & Gill Maxwell, Research Advisors On 23 March 2021 this year the National Day of Reflection in the UK will commemorate lives lost to COVID-19 and we will stand together with everyone who is grieving. In supporting this m...
