Three articles covering cyber security, and the risks certain generations may pose to organisations, how AI in the workplace may lead to loneliness and alienation from colleagues. Plus, ‘over 80% of workers are afriad of their HR department’ - how is the HR department perceived?

HR chiefs’ stature and pay are increasing to reflect their increasingly challenging roles navigating organisations through hiring, resignations, redundancies, DEI, and hybrid working contentions. Also, this week, employers are overestimating how much employees trust them. And the majority of organisations are unsure how to optimise their AI investments.

Award season is here, so we’ve put together a handy list of the main HR programmes and their likely deadlines.
There are so many award programmes in the UK, across business and consumer markets, each with different categories to choose from. They are a great way to display the amazing work HRs, their support teams and suppliers have been doing throughout the year.

Employee trust has dropped by 11% since last year, according to Mercer. Also, this week, nearly two-thirds (61%) of employees are more worried about the cost of living than last year. And how can employers best support working women?

And how can you get it right on the first go?

Over the years, we've been asked by HR clients (and their clients) if they can check a piece of coverage before it's published. The answer is undoubtedly no. But why not, when getting a message across is so important? Anyone asking doesn’t want to get bitten by misconstrued words in the media, which is completely understandable. Here's why and our advice for getting chats with a journalist right.

Flexible working: nearly a third (30%) of women working in public services have had their flexible working requests rejected. As a result, more than half (58%) are advocating for an automatic right to flexible working. Also, managers are ignoring RTO mandates to retain employees. And Gen Z is asking ChatGPT for career advice because their managers are too busy.