Elevate HR

09/08/2026

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 ...

09/07/2026

8 min

REC flags guaranteed-hours risk for the UK's one million agency workers

Around one million temporary workers and contractors work across the United Kingdom on any given day, many of them in the NHS, social care, and logistics, choosing agency arrangements precisely because those arrangements bend around their ...

08/25/2026

8 min

Just 6% of UK employers fix toxic workplace behaviour

A pattern familiar to anyone who has worked in a sizeable organisation: a colleague's conduct becomes disruptive, a line manager eventually steps in, there is a brief period of calm, and then the same behaviour resurfaces within weeks. WorkNest, ...

08/18/2026

7 min

REC data confirms UK summer jobs rebound, but starter roles lag behind

Bars are hiring. Festival crews are hiring. Hotel front desks across coastal England are pinning up vacancy cards. If you have spent recent weeks scrolling job boards and quietly worrying the British summer job had disappeared for good, the data ...

08/18/2026

7 min

UK to scale SEN supported internships as youth jobs crisis deepens

Nearly 1 million 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK are currently classified as NEET (not in employment, education or training), the highest level in a decade. Against that figure, England currently runs just 4,500 supported internship places for ...

08/18/2026

7 min

Working from home deepens loneliness for young UK workers

If you are under 30 and working mostly from your bedroom, kitchen table, or a quiet corner of a shared flat, the data has finally caught up with what you already feel. Young men now spend roughly 6.5 hours of their waking day alone. Young women, ...

08/18/2026

10 min

UK unions demand workplace heat rules as hospitals hit 41.8C

A hospital ward in Manchester recorded 41.8°C in June. A London bus cab pushed past 40°C. A pub kitchen in north London faced a collapsing service with fans that, as head chef Joshua Swinney described, did little more than move hot air around. No...

08/13/2026

6 min

UK builds AI jobs 'early warning' data system as workers worry

The AI Security Institute (AISI) has signed a one-year commercial contract with workforce data specialist Revelio Labs, valued at £96,000 and starting on 21 August 2026, to build what the procurement notice describes as an early warning c...

07/29/2026

7 min

Grantham Institute's £1.15bn heat finding: HSE gap leaves UK's lowest-paid exposed

During the final week of June 2026, temperatures in parts of the UK exceeded 37°C and the country lost an estimated 24 million working hours. Research from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the E...

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