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Dan Lucy considers five key planning priorities that could help HR to prepare for the looming economic downturn.

With many businesses blaming staff shortages on Brexit and the pandemic, Duncan Brown argues that with better workforce planning, and investment in staff pay and skills, much of the disruption we're experiencing to services could have been avoided.

With the Kickstart initiative now closed, Rosie Gloster and Olivia Garner assess whether employers new to supporting young people might now consider whether traineeships are a desirable alternative to generate the skills and talent pipeline they need.

With the proposal to cut up to £8.8bn a year through the introduction of regional pay boards and wage variation for public sector workers now hastily retracted, Stephen Bevan and Tony Wilson look at this often-mooted idea and reflect on why it has never delivered.

Duncan Brown considers the rise of bonuses and cost of living payments and questions whether bonus payments to lower-paid staff is a step on the path to more permanent and higher investments in people and their productivity.

These figures are a timely reminder of the challenges the next prime minister will face. All the talk of tax cuts and 're-doing Brexit' won't help firms with the biggest problem they're facing, which is finding the workers to fill their jobs.

Claudia Plowden Roberts calls for neurodiversity in the workplace to be celebrated as an intrinsic part of the human diversity spectrum, highlighting that a reliance on talent, not diagnosis, provides organisational advantages when neurodiverse employees are sufficiently supported at work.

Stephen Bevan considers the merits of multi-year pay deals as a potential method of matching wages with potentially long term volatile inflation during a growing cost of living crisis.