Alessandra Pacelli

HR leaders and those responsible for workplace training are facing mounting pressure as artificial intelligence accelerates the pace of change across UK organisations, new research.

Business Disability Forum (BDF) has launched new guidance to provide practical advice to employers on how to support neurodivergent colleagues in the workplace.

With the Met Office issuing extreme heat warnings and temperatures forecast to challenge June records, business leaders are being encouraged to have

New research into the support that overseas employees need has found that 87% of employers think staff working abroad need additional support, compared with employees based in the UK. Mental health support was felt to be needed most, identified by 49% of employers with overseas staff, followed by financial health and wellbeing at 47%, physical health and wellbeing at 46% and social health and wellbeing at 45%.

New research has found that people are using their annual leave not to switch off but to cope with money problems – one of several ways financial pressure is reshaping working life.

Employers are being given expert legal advice to manage a surge in formal workplace grievances drafted using artificial intelligence. More than half of HR professionals in the UK have reported growing numbers of employees using AI to produce grievances, workplace complaints and appeals.

New forecasting predicts the UK's NEET rate could return to post-financial crisis levels without urgent action. The analysis suggests Britain could be on course for more than 1.25 million young people being outside education employment or training by 2030 according to new prediction-based data.

Frontline workforce models now have to be more flexible than ever, with employers looking to optimise their use of full-time, temporary and seasonal staff whose schedules can vary significantly from week to week.

Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September, employers are being urged to recognise the complex factors that contribute to suicide – and to strengthen prevention efforts for employees worldwide.

More than one in three employers (36%) have reduced entry-level jobs for young people over the past 12 months, according to new analysis of a Survation survey of 1,001 UK senior business leaders. Almost half of medium-sized (48%) and large employers (46%) reported cuts compared with 24% of small employers.