11+ hour, 17+ min ago  (404+ words) Fifty-one per cent of employees are frequently unhappy at work, according to research findings published jointly today (15 April) by employee engagement platform Reward Gateway Edenred (RGER) and the London School of Economics (LSE). After surveying 2, 000 employees and 1, 000 HR managers, researchers…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (618+ words) An article in The Times questioned whether HR functions in the UK have become bloated, particularly compared with US counterparts (How bloated HR became a big workplace problem, 25 February). It is a fair provocation. Every function in a business should…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (182+ words) Our pick of the latest releases for HR professionals. Age Against the Machine Authors: Lucy Standing, Martin Hyde, Maggi Evans Publisher: De Gruyter Brill " Graceful Power: Solving the paradox of modern leadership Drawing on more than 20 years" experience as a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (515+ words) A clip of a deepfake scammer failing a "three-finger test" went viral last week, prompting HR magazine to ask commentators how to safeguard against fraudulent use of artificial intelligence (AI) when recruiting. A scammer used deepfake AI to pretend to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (454+ words) There's a quiet irony at the heart of how most organisations approach learning and development right now. We're looking ahead to an AI-driven workplace that will demand creativity, collaboration and independent judgement from people, and instead of developing these people-centric…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (435+ words) Most organisations are taking the wrong approach to AI readiness. Some are recruiting heavily for AI positions that they don't yet fully understand, while others are taking the entire team to a two-day prompt engineering course and calling it a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (598+ words) Paul Griggs, the US boss of management consultancy Pw C, has warned partners that those who do not adapt to AI will have no future at the firm, the Financial Times reported on 19 March. Griggs said that senior staff who…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (439+ words) More than eight in 10 (86%) senior leaders report that AI use has negatively impacted their wellbeing, according to research findings published by enterprise AI platform Unlikely AI today (17 March). After surveying 1, 000 senior decision-makers, The AI Trust Report 2026 revealed that almost one…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (562+ words) An increasing number of employees are turning to AI to fine tune the articulation of workplace issues such as grievances. Yet research has revealed that guidance is often inaccurate and rarely leads to successful outcomes. This is not only wasting…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (596+ words) After years of working on behaviour and culture change, one pattern keeps repeating: organisations focus on the change itself, not on the people expected to deliver it, or the systems meant to support them. As AI reshapes work, that mistake…...