The Current Jobs Market and Impact on Employee Engagement It’s no secret that the UK jobs market has become increasingly unstable in recent months. With higher employer costs, an unstable economy, redundancies and hiring freezes, the morale and productivity of...
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Are Redundancy Headlines Impacting Employee Confidence?
Are redundancy headlines impacting employee confidence? In the immediate aftermath of the COVID pandemic, redundancy rates in the UK dropped to the lowest levels since records began. At the same time UK vacancy levels soared – peaking at 1.3 million open job...
Coping with Redundancy: What I’ve Learned
With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the number of people coping with redundancy and the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We...
Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights
My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...
Finding the Right Balance: Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures
With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...
Exit Interviews: The HR Game Changer to Driving Success
Reflecting on my career, I’ve come to appreciate the significant impact that exit interviews can have on an organisation. Moreover, in my current role, I see firsthand how valuing employee feedback can drive positive change and foster a healthier work environment....
The business case for exit interviews
Making the business case for exit interviews is relatively easy. Here's just some of the factors you should consider. Having vacancies costs money Rarely does an employee leave without implications. Those implications come in many forms. It could mean you are slower...
Why outsource your exit interviews?
Having spent almost 30 years supporting individuals to achieve their career goals we’ve learned a thing or two about what shapes a decision to stay or leave an employer.
Are exit interviews the key to employee retention?
One of the simplest and most effective ways to improve retention is often the most overlooked! Exit interviews are conducted after a person leaves a company, to find out the pushes and pulls, and ultimately what led them to leave. With this valuable information,...
What is an exit interview?
In its simplest form, an exit interview is a conversation with an employee who is leaving the company (voluntarily by resigning and not via redundancy) to discover the main factors that have driven their decision to depart. In reality, it is often a potent mix of...