News & Press

With conflicting evidence and mixed reports from both employers and staff, Dan Lucy considers the future of homeworking and the implications for HR.

To mark World Mental Health Day, Zofia Bajorek reflects on her personal mental health challenges through the Covid-19 lockdown and highlights the potential benefits that workplace counselling can deliver.

Tony Wilson considers the Job Support Scheme, part of the newly announced Winter Economy Plan, and estimates that the government’s post-furlough proposals could still leave a million people long-term unemployed.

Ed Griffin highlights the issues and challenges facing the adult social care workforce and stresses the importance of creating an overarching workforce plan, that will build, develop and support the workers providing this critical service.

Urgent measures needed to support those affected, stimulate employment growth and provide targeted help to viable firms

With as many as one third of nurseries in disadvantaged areas facing closure, Anneka Dawson and Helena Takala highlight the long lasting impact this will have on widening social inequalities and urge the government to deliver targeted support to save the early years sector.

In the final in a series of blogs, Beth Mason speaks to Young Women's Trust about the difficulties young women face in accessing adequate childcare, and the impact this has on their ability to find, and to stay in work.

With home and remote working now normalised for many, Peter Reilly questions whether there will be any fundamental changes to HR shared services centres in larger, physically dispersed organisations.