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...
Employee retention: the top four reasons people stay
Employee retention is high up the HR agenda in many organisations right now. Skill shortages mean recruiting replacements is time-consuming and expensive. If you can even find the cabndidates. Over 30 years we've talked to thousands of individuals about their careers...
Are the rose-coloured glasses starting to slip?
Over the past month I’ve seen and read, what appears to be, an increasing number of articles covering the more negative aspects of home/hybrid working. Now we’ve passed the 2-year anniversary of the big move to a more home/remote based working model are the...
Are homeworkers healthier?
I’ve just been reading an article from a US magazine that reports how sick leave amongst homeworkers appears to be 70% lower than for their office-based equivalents. As with all data, I think that raw statistic poses more questions than it provides answers. What it...
Boomerang hires – get them back…
How you exit people can be as important to your talent strategy and employer brand as how you onboard them. Done well it can pay big dividends – encouraging people to return in the future and in the meantime act as advocates in the jobs market. I remember writing an...