Economy

Employers that have said they will not hire younger people or take on apprentices as a result of the rise in employer national insurance (NI) could be making their...

Stress has caused one in four UK employees to take time off work in the past 12 months, research from Avillio has found. The productivity and performance coaching provider...

Reward and benefits platform Benefex has acquired Vebnet from Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, as the provider focuses on growth. Under a separate strategic partnership deal, flexible benefit...

Negative attitudes to flexible working could be an obstacle to the government’s ambitious Get Britain Working (GBW) reforms, research has suggested. Earlier this week, the government published its GBW...

Networking has always been a necessary and useful tool to climb the career ladder, but could women-only networks be more of a hindrance than a help, asks Lee Higgins,...

More than half of the UK public support capping chief executive pay in relation to average employee wages, a survey has revealed. Research from the High Pay Centre (HPC)...

Almost a third of business owners have said they will need to make redundancies in the year ahead. Research from Evelyn Partners conducted in the run-up to the Autumn ...

As employers operating in the EU prepare for the EU Pay Transparency Directive, 51.9 percent are looking to roll out equal pay arrangements across their whole organisation, which will...

UK pay rises “stagnated” in the third quarter of 2024, remaining at 4 percent, while forecasts for 2025 point to lower pay awards of 3 percent, data from Brightmine...

UK women are retiring seven years later, on average, than they did 30 years ago, signalling “dramatic shifts” in how people approach work. The study from longevity think tank...