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Employers are being urged to invest more in upskilling their employees as two fifths of UK workforce identify themselves as Not In Skilled Employment (NISKE), according to a recent research report by the Open University. More than four in five (84%) of this group were also in the same low and semi-skilled positions in 2012, […]

Workforce management systems can at least partially mitigate the negative effect of employee turnover, a phenomenon that’s likely to affect an increasingly higher number of companies over the next 12 months, as per a recent study conducted by Citation. The research suggests that 50% of full or part-time workers in the UK want to leave […]

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has recently recommended that every job should be advertised as available for flexible working, a recent news report has revealed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has recently recommended that every job should be advertised as available for flexible working, a recent news report has revealed. Employees with 26 weeks’ […]

Personnel management systems that enable managers and HR departments to thoroughly assess workplace satisfaction levels are likely to become increasingly important over the next few years as workforce churn escalates, according to a global study. Research published in Willis Towers Watson’s Global Workforce Study shows that a third (32 per cent) of UK employees say […]

Personnel management software systems can help mitigate the ever-present issue of presentreism, which affects more than half of UK workers, according to a recent survey. The poll of 1,123 workers by Willis Towers Watson also found 54 per cent of workers believe they are put under pressure to return to work before they have fully […]

Time and attendance systems that provide accurate insights and analytics into the employees’ attendance patterns can help improve overall productivity for UK firms, which are currently losing 27.5 days of productive work per employee each year, because of poor health, according to a recent research report. The paper from Britain’s Healthiest Workplace (BHW) also suggests […]

The number of advertised vacancies has risen by 17.7% in May, suggesting that business confidence is strong across the nation, recent data from online jobs portal CV-Library has been able to reveal. The data, which analysed the number of jobs in the UK’s key cities in May 2017, compared with April 2017, found that Brighton […]

Besides enabling employers to check whether workers arrive and leave on time, managing payroll or annual leave, workforce management systems can be also used for improving the staff’s wellbeing. Workplace wellbeing support is worse in the public sector than in the private sector, according to research from mental health charity Mind, who surveyed 12,000 employees […]

The uptake of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) is still modest among UK employees, a recent research study by Milners Solicitors has been able to suggest. The research found that out of more than 56,000 people employed by some of the UK’s biggest private and public sector organisations, just 54 of them had taken up the […]

The UK jobs market has experienced its steepest drop in candidate availability for 16 months, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s latest Report on Jobs. The recruitment industry body found that the availability of both permanent and temporary candidates declined at sharper rates in April, the steepest deterioration in availability since the start of […]

The number of employees who usually work from home has increased by 7.7% (152,000) last year, a new analysis report published by the TUC to mark National Work From Home Day has revealed. More than 1.6 million employees (1 in 16) worked from home in 2016, with the number of women working from home going […]

As a higher level of inflation hits the UK economy, the effects are trickling down into the labour market and taking their toll on wage growth. UK salaries have struggled to match up to their September 2014 high of £34,695. March 2017’s figures are down 3.8% annually to currently reside at £32,525. Despite the strain […]