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...
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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...
Making a Business Case for Volume Outplacement
Making a business case for outplacement—especially at scale—can be challenging, even for the most experienced HR leaders. But with redundancy intentions for UK firms at their highest in over 10 years, the need to support employees through transition has never been...
What Are Stay Interviews? Understand in Under 5 Minutes
Stay interviews are often seen as the opposite of exit interviews, which focus on why an employee is leaving. But let’s take a closer look. What are stay interviews? What Are Stay Interviews? A stay interview is a proactive conversation—typically...
4 Ways Stay Interviews Improve Retention and Reduce Turnover
With the rising turnover rates, companies cannot afford to ignore how stay interviews improve retention. In December of last year, we saw the worrying figure of nearly one quarter (23%) of workers in the UK planning to leave their jobs within the short term – a 3%...
Retirement will create a big hole…
Retirement will create a big hole in my diary. For over 40 years I have spent far more of my waking life at a desk, in meetings or travelling than I have doing anything else. Working long hours was a habit I developed when I worked in the advertising industry....
Retirement planning – the view from the beach hut
Retirement planning isn't something I've spent a lot of time thinking about. Possibly because I've never imagined just stopping work. While my workaholic tendencies may have had the edges rubbed off over time, I am still constantly thinking about the business,...
What does retirement mean in 2023?
What does retirement mean? Our Chairman, Ian Gooden, looks at how the whole concept of retirement is changing. Almost 100 years ago - 1925 to be exact - the view was pretty clear. That's when state pensions, as we know them today, came into existence. Means-tested...