Insights & News

Investing in your employees’ mental health

18 May 2023

As workplaces across the country mark Mental Health Awareness Week, employers are reminded why safeguarding employees’ mental health and wellbeing should be a business priority. What steps can employers take to address this critical issue proactively?

Réforme de l’IR35 à compter d’avril 2021

20 January 2021

La réforme proposée de l’IR35 représente le plus grand changement apporté à la taxe à l’emploi depuis des décennies.

IR35 reforms to be postponed due to coronavirus

18 March 2020

The government has announced that the planned reforms to IR35 will now take effect on 6 April 2021.

Enforcement of gender pay gap reporting – the EHRC gets involved

21 December 2017

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (‘EHRC’) has published a consultation on its plans for enforcing the Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations (‘GPG Regulations’).

Avoiding the Hedonic Treadmill: designing a sustainable employee engagement strategy

14 December 2017

The concept of the “Hedonic Treadmill” is well established amongst psychologists, but what lessons can HR draw from it in relation to improving employee engagement and productivity?

Applying game theory to HR

16 November 2017

The influence of game theory, developed in the 1950s by Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr, has been huge. It provides a formal modelling approach for decision-makers to explore a variety of interactions among agents, and their potential outcomes.

Feedback - positivity vs negativity

02 November 2017

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools for optimising workplace performance. Getting it right can help a business to constantly improve. Mistakes become learning opportunities; failures and bad behaviours are not repeated. Conversely, getting feedback wrong can destroy motivation, causing productivity to plummet.