2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (222+ words) The sunshine is out, but fear-filled clouds are forming. As I write, the sun is out in a clear blue sky, daylight hours are officially longer than darkness, and I sense springtime-fuelled optimism among those around me at work." Budgets…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (446+ words) If HR professionals cannot explain how its AI system reaches decisions, they should not be using AI. Are you prepared to stand by AI's outcomes? The debate is no longer about adoption: AI is already screening candidates, flagging performance concerns,…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (404+ words) Fifty-one per cent of employees are frequently unhappy at work, according to research findings published jointly today (15 April) by employee engagement platform Reward Gateway Edenred (RGER) and the London School of Economics (LSE). After surveying 2, 000 employees and 1, 000 HR managers, researchers…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (618+ words) An article in The Times questioned whether HR functions in the UK have become bloated, particularly compared with US counterparts (How bloated HR became a big workplace problem, 25 February). It is a fair provocation. Every function in a business should…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (182+ words) Our pick of the latest releases for HR professionals. Age Against the Machine Authors: Lucy Standing, Martin Hyde, Maggi Evans Publisher: De Gruyter Brill " Graceful Power: Solving the paradox of modern leadership Drawing on more than 20 years" experience as a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (383+ words) Companies may be at risk of losing their B Corp ethical status because the organisation behind the system has raised their eligibility standards. B Lab, which oversees B Corp certification, launched the biggest overhaul in its 19-year history earlier this…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (515+ words) A clip of a deepfake scammer failing a "three-finger test" went viral last week, prompting HR magazine to ask commentators how to safeguard against fraudulent use of artificial intelligence (AI) when recruiting. A scammer used deepfake AI to pretend to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (454+ words) There's a quiet irony at the heart of how most organisations approach learning and development right now. We're looking ahead to an AI-driven workplace that will demand creativity, collaboration and independent judgement from people, and instead of developing these people-centric…...

4+ week, 48+ min ago  (435+ words) Most organisations are taking the wrong approach to AI readiness. Some are recruiting heavily for AI positions that they don't yet fully understand, while others are taking the entire team to a two-day prompt engineering course and calling it a…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago  (598+ words) Paul Griggs, the US boss of management consultancy Pw C, has warned partners that those who do not adapt to AI will have no future at the firm, the Financial Times reported on 19 March. Griggs said that senior staff who…...