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AI | When employees become 'lower-value human capital', HR should worry
When Standard Chartered boss Bill Winters described employees at risk of redundancy as “lower-value...
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Royal Mail | Are your targets driving performance - or encouraging employee misdirection?
Postal workers have claimed they were asked to move or hide mail from bosses to give the impression of...
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Editor’s Note | Attention HR! Ditch your paperwork & sign up for HRGV Live 2026
It's not too late! On March 26, join hundreds of HR professionals in London & learn from the UK's...
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Opinion | Farage's latest attack on WFH ignores six years of reality
Nigel Farage's renewed criticism of working from home has reignited a familiar debate about productivity,...
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Punched & bitten | Staff body cameras - invasive surveillance or vital safety measure?
An NHS case study mythbusts concerns that frontline worker body cams are more about surveillance than...
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‘Crucial’ | Could resilience engineering help HR defeat 'payroll pirates' & other cyber threats?
As the government tells CEOs to adopt resilience engineering in response to cyber threats, HR's role...
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WFH woes | What 'keyboard jamming' cases tell us about productivity paranoia
A lack of trust between employers and staff persists in an era where so many workers feel they must prove...
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‘Shameful’ | Could employers do more to protect job seekers from AI recruitment scams?
Scammers are taking advantage of candidates left vulnerable by a tough job market - but is it an employer's...
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AI | 'Hey Geraldine' is charming, but should we be this comfortable cloning colleagues?
A quirky chatbot that mimics an employee's tone, offers their wisdom, and saves hours of staff time....
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'Manipulation' | Don't monitor like Musk - increase employee surveillance at your peril
Employees at Elon Musk-owned xAI described the installation of monitoring software as 'surveillance...
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Prevention, not intervention | It's a good thing workers are using EAPs, but we need to address why they have to
Should we be encouraged by the rise in calls to employee assistance helplines, or concerned?
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Trump's tariffs | Why leaders must talk openly with staff about distressing headlines
Be visible and be vulnerable with employees to prevent concerning headlines from impacting wellbeing,...
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'You must stay at home' | How the COVID lockdown changed HR for better and worse
Five years ago, HR leaders scrambled to adapt to a new way of working. What lessons (if any) have we...
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Financial wellbeing | BBC's £4m payroll error could be disastrous for employee morale
The BBC's handling of a massive payroll issue makes it a lose-lose scenario for everyone...
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Finland or Whitehall | Border watchdog WFH controversy - a remote work debate or misplaced outrage?
Tensions over remote work aren't going away anytime soon...
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'Brass neck' | MP's 'UK needs a work ethic' remarks are out of touch with a nation on the brink
A shadow minister feels that the UK needs to 'up its game' on work ethic...
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‘Turbocharging’ | Starmer's AI promise: Big, buzzword-y, but lacking in guidance for businesses on employee reskilling
Starmer's speech - and the Government's official statement - are a veritable treasure trove of...
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Wellbeing stunt | Company's 'fake firing' of stressed workers was a PR misstep
The HR PR stunt made waves across social media for all the wrong reasons...
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Happy Birthday, ChatGPT! | Why your business and employees need an AI acceptable use policy in 2025
AvePoint's recent AI & Information Management Report 2024 found that 53% of businesses are using public...
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NI, wages & skills | Short-termism 'doesn't benefit anyone' - but did the Budget give more questions than answers for HR?
The Chancellor sees the Autumn Budget as “investment, investment, investment.” But do UK employers...
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