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December 2024

Labour Market Statistics, December 2024

While employment, unemployment and economic inactivity all remain at the same level as the previous quarter, vacancies have continued to decrease and pay growth remains weak.

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16 Jan 2025

HR’s skills priority for 2025: ‘revolution’ or time to reinvest, rediscover and reform?

Futurologists suggest we should abandon the traditional jobs mindset and re-structure HR processes to be wholly skills-based. Based on IES' research, Duncan Brown endorses the direction of travel towards a stronger emphasis on skills, but suggests three more practical actions to progress.

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16 Dec 2024

Total reward strategies in 2024 and the direction for 2025: planning, purpose and practice

As we approach year-end, some twenty years after publishing his first book on taking ‘Reward Strategies: from intent to impact’, IES Associate Duncan Brown assesses the state of reward strategy and total rewards packages today, and what’s needed in the 2020s.

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