Agenda

How to embrace Shared Parental Leave

Eight in 10 top UK companies paid men more than women in 2018.

Sutton Trust: education is the key to boosting social mobility

The Sutton Trust has helped push social mobility to the top of the political agenda. CEO James Turner reveals how the Trust is helping young people to aim high.

Managing workplace mental health: the power of high-quality training

Mental ill-health is responsible for almost 13% of all sickness absence days in the UK, while it has been shown that UK businesses could save up to £8 billion per year through better mental health wellbeing support in the workplace. Lottie Galvin from eLearning platform iHASCO explains how.

The single-mother conundrum: time for businesses to take note

With the number of single mothers in the workforce at its highest level since the initial years of this century, the question experts are asking is whether the trend is due to macroeconomic factors or true cultural change.

Business heavyweight Piers Linney named on EMpower’s Ethnic Minority Role Model List for the second year running

Business guru Piers Linney – who starred on TV’s Dragons’ Den – has been named in a list of high-flying role models from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Businesses boost diversity in IT and cybersecurity to appeal to top staff

(ISC)2 study uncovers that 74% of businesses took action on diversity in the last two to five years in an effort to create a more appealing and inclusive workplace across age, gender and ethnicity.

Job-hopping costs the UK economy more than £71 billion a year

Online employee referral recruitment platform, Real Links, investigates the true cost of job-hopping to UK businesses.

Women C-Suite ranks nudge up—a tad

More women are holding the nation’s most important corporate roles, just not that many more.

Women in leadership: time to remove the roadblocks

In this guest article, Rosalie Harrison, a partner at executive recruitment firm Borderless, explains why she now has a ‘women in leadership training’ trash bin. It’s time to ditch the baggage.

Targeting ethnic minority talent can help improve boardroom diversity

A meritocratic system is one based on talent, abilities and effort; why then are so few ethnic minorities in senior roles in UK corporates?