Everyone is talking about AI. Here are five things I heard at James Poulter’s book launch that stuck with me
On a Thursday evening in a small independent bookshop in Shoreditch, I went to hear James Poulter launch AI at Work. There was plenty about what AI can do. But the most interesting questions were about what happens to us. Everyone is talking about AI. Most of us are using it, too. Yet when James Poulter asked…
7–10 minutesNeurodiversity at Work Has an Awkward Truth: The Problem Is Often the Work
Neurodiversity at work has become much more visible. The lanyards, awareness weeks, employee networks and leadership statements are all there. Yet the everyday experience of work has not improved at the same pace. That is the uncomfortable message running through the Neurodiversity in Business Research Report 2026, produced by Birkbeck, University of London and Neurodiversity in…
3–5 minutesLondon Weighting and Location-Based Pay: Why Geography Raises Some Salaries and Discounts Others
London weighting pays a premium for working in the capital. But as other cities become more expensive and work goes global, does location-based pay still make sense?
4–6 minutesWorkers trust an AI chatbot more than your workplace wellbeing programme
New data: workers hide distress and confide in AI chatbots instead. What that means for your workplace wellbeing programme, and six actions for HR leaders.
5–8 minutesValon’s AI onboarding rule: AI banned until new starters learn the job
An AI company has cut AI access for most new hires until managers judge them competent. What Valon’s AI onboarding decision means for L&D and induction design.
3–5 minutesMeet the employees turning corporate life into lifestyle content
Not so long ago, the aspirational working life on social media involved escaping it. Now, younger workers are starting to turn corporate life into aspirational content.
3–4 minutesWork Beyond Walls – Enough with the return-to-office debate; what if we ran a live experiment?
Work Beyond Walls turns Newcastle’s Boiler Shop into a live workplace experiment, asking what makes an office worth the journey.
3–5 minutes87% of organisations are underprepared for change, global research finds
New research from Insights suggests organisations may be mistaking experience of change for readiness, with the least-prepared businesses more than twice as likely to report falling productivity. Nearly nine in ten organisations were not highly prepared for their most recent significant organisational change, according to global research published today by people development company Insights. The…
3–4 minutesJob architecture in the ai era: loveholidays’ head of engineering says releasing code is no longer an engineering job.
Dmitri Lerko is head of engineering at loveholidays. For the past year he has watched people who are not engineers release code to a website that sells holidays to millions. Product managers. Designers. People from the commercial team. “Everybody is a builder,” Lerko says. “Making changes to our applications, infrastructure, and deploying code is no…
4–6 minutesBEYOND salary: five ways to make Total Reward Month count
By Esther Smith Peter Stack wanted Urenco to be a destination company. One way its reward team supported that ambition was remarkably simple: show employees what they were actually getting. Its total reward statements (UK) bring together base pay, bonus, healthcare, life cover and, importantly, an employer pension contribution of 16%. Stack, Urenco’s Group Head…
6–8 minutesYour boss’s sense of humour might be contagious
New research suggests humour at work can spread through teams, strengthen relationships and help employees feel more energised and able to thrive.
4–6 minutesEurope’s Women in Tech Pipeline Problem Starts Years Before Recruitment
New Eurostat data shows the women in tech pipeline is decided at degree choice, not at the job ad. Here’s what HR leaders should look at instead.
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