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The Institute for Employment Studies appoints new Chief Executive Officer
20 Jan 2025The Institute for Employment Studies is delighted to announce the appointment of Naomi Clayton as its new Chief Executive Officer.
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HR’s skills priority for 2025: ‘revolution’ or time to reinvest, rediscover and reform?
16 Jan 2025Futurologists 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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The evolution of salaries in the UK in the post-pandemic period
13 Jan 2025Nick Litsardopoulos takes an in-depth look into the reasons behind the major changes to UK salaries since the COVID-19 pandemic, and why some industries have experienced significant disruption while others have shown remarkable resilience.
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2025: a year of pay ‘un-transparency’?
7 Jan 2025As the clock runs down on the implementation of the EU’s Pay Transparency directive, and the subject dominates listings of HR priorities for 2025, Duncan Brown reminds us of an experiment in real pay transparency and the benefits and risks involved.
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The sour taste of inflation: The impact of inflation on UK wages
6 Jan 2025Nick Litsardopoulos takes an in-depth look at the increase in the cost of consumer goods in the UK since the start of the pandemic and the corresponding rise in inflation, how the job market and pay levels have responded to this, and the disparities between the two.
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Connecting investments on skills, careers guidance and employment
18 Dec 2024Following a recent Parliamentary roundtable discussion on the role of careers guidance in national economic growth, Alison Carter reflects on how careers guidance services can best be developed further to help fill the potential gaps in the future UK labour market.
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December Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
17 Dec 2024IES analysis of this month's Labour Market Statistics, published December 17th 2024
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Labour Market Statistics, December 2024
17 Dec 2024IES analysis of this month's Labour Market Statistics, published December 17th 2024
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Total reward strategies in 2024 and the direction for 2025: planning, purpose and practice
16 Dec 2024As 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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Afro hair discrimination: the DEI ‘blind spot’ affecting black women in the workplace
10 Dec 2024Jan Northcroft explores the issue of afro hair discrimination, how it manifests in the workplace, and how addressing this DEI blind spot will enable employers to create more inclusive workspaces, as well as attract and retain more diverse talent.