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07/09/2026

NHS walking rewards: what UK employees should check before opting in

If your employer starts mentioning the NHS walking challenge in the coming months, here is what the scheme actually involves and, more practically, what it means for you when it lands in your workplace. England's 10-year health plan includes a ...

07/09/2026

6 min

DWP's Carer's Allowance cliff-edge review: signals for working carers and HR

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) opened a six-week call for evidence on Carer's Allowance on Tuesday 7 July 2026. The review targets the earnings limit that currently operates as an all-or-nothing threshold: crossing it by even a small ...

07/06/2026

7 min

Five-year leadership trust collapse signals retention risk across UK organisations

Seven in ten HR leaders in the United Kingdom now report that trust between employees and senior leadership has deteriorated over the past five years, according to INTOO's annual Future World of Work report, a survey of more than 1,000 UK HR ...

07/05/2026

4 min

UK bosses urged to flex hours after England's 1am World Cup match

England kick off against Mexico at 1am UK time on Monday morning in the World Cup last 16, and if the tie goes to penalties the final whistle could land close to 4am. That leaves millions of workers across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern ...

06/30/2026

7 min

The £123,543 unfair dismissal cap ends in 2027: what UK senior staff need to do now

Something has shifted in the tone of senior meetings at a number of UK employers, and it is not accidental. The Financial Times has reported that some companies are accelerating the exits of highly paid staff ahead of 1 January 2027, the date on ...

06/25/2026

7 min

CEO narcissism may be driving return-to-office mandates

For three years, return-to-office mandates across the UK have arrived dressed in the language of productivity: collaboration suffers at home, junior staff miss out on mentorship, culture erodes on video calls. Research from the Wharton School at ...

06/25/2026

6 min

UK has no maximum workplace temperature law: what to do

Britain is heading into a period of extreme heat, with the Met Office issuing warnings of temperatures approaching 40°C, and the question arriving in every HR inbox and group chat is identical: at what temperature does work legally have to stop? T...

06/23/2026

7 min

CEST credibility gap: IR35 Shield FOI data shows 71% collapse in HMRC tool usage

HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool is shedding users at a rate that demands an explanation. Figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request by compliance specialist IR35 Shield and reported by The Register show that CEST ...

06/23/2026

7 min

Royal Mail's 6,500 daily sick days and what they reveal

Royal Mail's chief executive, Martin Seidenberg of International Distribution Services, disclosed at The Times CEO Summit that approximately 6,500 postal workers are absent on any given working day. Across a workforce of roughly 130,000, that is ...

06/22/2026

7 min

Employment Rights Act 2025: what UK HR teams must rewrite

The Employment Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, handing every HR function in the United Kingdom a phased but non-negotiable compliance timetable. The headline measure that dominated pre-legislative debate, a pure day-one ...

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