‘Pay attention’ | HR Grapevine's 2025 Review: The biggest headlines, HR wins, & tribunals

2025 has been a remarkable year for HR Grapevine, not just by numbers (nearly 2,000 articles, over 1 million words, & another year-on-year increase in readership), but by the quality of our content.

Frankly, it had to be.

For HR professionals, it has been another gruelling 12 months of effort, change, progress, frustration, and unfriendly fire from a long queue of industry critics.

As our esteemed Deputy Editor, Liam Soutar, wrote last week while outlining key preparations for the Employment Rights Bill ahead of 2026: “2025 has been defined by constant legal change, from new obligations to prevent sexual harassment to shifting expectations around flexible working and employee protections.”