Elevate HR

09/08/2026

Managers erode judgement by outsourcing thinking to AI

A research team led by the University of Bath's School of Management has published findings in the Academy of Management Review that should interest anyone who reports to, or is responsible for developing, managers in a British workplace. The ...

09/08/2026

8 min

Rehabs UK, ACAS and the Equality Act: your rights on substance use at work

A Bupa study found that 57% of UK employees have experienced difficulties with some form of addiction - a figure that cuts across sectors, salary bands and job titles. If you have poured a second drink to get through a brutal week, leaned on ...

09/08/2026

7 min

Centre for Ageing Better's NETER metric exposes the 2.9 million older workers UK hiring funnels filter out

Nearly 2.9 million people in the UK aged 50 to state pension age are neither working, training, in education nor retired. The Centre for Ageing Better has coined a term for this group: NETER. What makes the figure arresting is its scale relative ...

09/08/2026

8 min

UK workers waste 199m paid holiday days a year

Roughly 199 million days of paid statutory leave went uncollected by UK workers last year, according to research commissioned by private diagnostics provider Vista Health and published in summer 2026. The survey of 2,003 UK adults, conducted ...

09/08/2026

8 min

Half of Gen Z UK workers feel guilty using AI at work

Half of Gen Z workers in the UK feel guilty using AI to produce work, and 42% use it without telling their employer, according to research commissioned by employment software company Employment Hero. The same study finds that 64% of UK employers ...

09/08/2026

7 min

Hidden NEETs: The 300,000 Young Workers UK Hiring Teams Cannot See

A cohort of roughly 300,000 young people aged 18 to 24 sits entirely outside the UK welfare system: no benefit claim, no Jobcentre Plus contact, and no route into the government's flagship employment support schemes. According to the Institute ...

09/08/2026

6 min

CIPD pay equity lens: the £650 compression gap putting UK junior retention at risk

A £650 annual pay gap sits at the centre of a quiet retention problem spreading across UK workplaces. That figure, drawn from research by HR software specialist Iris Software Group covering 500 UK employees with two to five years of experience a...

09/08/2026

6 min

6.3m UK workers face insecure hours ahead of new law

The compliance timetable for the Employment Rights Act 2025 is now fixed, and the secondary legislation that will calibrate its most operationally demanding provisions is being shaped right now. The government confirmed that the Act's ...

09/08/2026

9 min

Equality Act exposure and the Employment Rights Act: UK employers' disability training gap

Seven in ten UK employers have not trained managers on disability discrimination or staff on neurodiversity, according to a VinciWorks poll of 398 HR, legal and compliance professionals. That gap carried reputational cost in 2024. From January ...

09/08/2026

8 min

REC data marks the first permanent-hiring rise in 22 months, but the recovery is uneven

August 2026 delivered the first genuinely positive signal for UK job-seekers since September 2022: permanent staff appointments rose for the first time in almost two years, ending a run of 22 consecutive months of decline, according to the ...

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