Workers 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.
3–5 minutesEmotion Recognition at Work Is Now Illegal in the EU. The Rest of the World Is Still Deciding
Emotion recognition at work is banned under EU law. Here’s the test HR leaders everywhere can use before any monitoring tool goes live.
4–6 minutesThe AI Upskilling Wave: Why HR Must Lead Skills Strategy Before the Gap Widens
AI upskilling is moving from an HR initiative to an enterprise skills strategy. SHRM and Gallup data show why managers, plans and support matter.
7–10 minutesWhy Employee Engagement Programmes Fail on Accessibility, Not Budget
Terryberry’s 2026 report shows why employee engagement programmes fail when workers cannot access them across shifts, sites and remote teams.
6–9 minutes
Most Read
Advertisement
