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…
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…
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…
Women’s equality continues to be pursued, but there is still significant ground to cover. Between 40,000 and 60,000 women leave the UK technology sector every year, highlighting how challenging it can be to sustain a career in the industry. We still need to address the biases that affect representation and remove obstacles that prevent women from advancing at the same…
New platform Workbloom automates employee recognition programmes to remove admin burden and operational complexity, as research shows that over 30% of HR teams still manage employee rewards manually. Workbloom, the Irish-based employee recognition and rewards platform, just launched a series of upgrades to their platform as part of their mission to make employee recognition simple,…
Hybrid working has changed more than where people work. It has also changed how organisations need to communicate when employees are actually in the building. Email and Teams may dominate day-to-day communications, but they are less useful when someone is moving through an office, looking for a meeting room, checking an operational update or simply…
New research suggests humour at work can spread through teams, strengthen relationships and help employees feel more energised and able to thrive.
Employers increasingly measure the visible benefits of artificial intelligence: faster drafts, shorter research cycles, quicker customer responses, and more automated administrative work. Employees experience another side of the rollout. They spend time checking outputs, correcting errors, explaining unusual decisions, and protecting customers or colleagues from consequences that the system cannot see. Employee Experience Magazine recently…
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.
Emotion recognition at work is banned under EU law. Here’s the test HR leaders everywhere can use before any monitoring tool goes live.
AI upskilling is moving from an HR initiative to an enterprise skills strategy. SHRM and Gallup data show why managers, plans and support matter.
Terryberry’s 2026 report shows why employee engagement programmes fail when workers cannot access them across shifts, sites and remote teams.
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