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09/09/2026

Common Ground polling finds one in eight British workers changes their accent at work

Roughly 1 in 8 British workers have changed the way they speak to sound more professional at work, according to a poll of 3,384 adults in Great Britain commissioned by campaigning consultancy Common Ground and carried out by More in Common ...

09/09/2026

7 min

Bupa's presenteeism data: what ACAS rights and CIPD benchmarks mean for UK workplaces

More than half of UK workers have delayed seeking medical help because they did not want to take time off work. That is the central finding of the annual Bupa Wellbeing Index, which surveyed more than 8,000 adults and 500 business leaders across ...

09/09/2026

7 min

REC coalition challenges ERA 2025 guaranteed-hours rules for UK agency workers

Around 1.57 million people in the UK earn a living through temporary agency work, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the February to April 2026 quarter. A clause inside the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025), due to ...

09/09/2026

7 min

BRC's Opening Shift placement: the questions to put to your work coach

If you are aged 18 to 24, claiming Universal Credit, and running into job adverts that demand experience you have never been given a fair chance to acquire, Opening Shift may already be on your radar. Launched jointly by the British Retail ...

09/08/2026

6 min

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

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 ...

09/07/2026

8 min

Fair Work Agency's 658-employer list: the payroll audit every HR director should run now

The Fair Work Agency's first naming round, published on 3 September 2026, placed 658 employers on a public register for underpaying more than 27,000 workers a combined £4 million, with £7 million in penalties issued alongside. The register spans h...

09/07/2026

6 min

Home Office right-to-work expansion exposes HR boards to £45,000-per-worker risk

From 1 October 2026, the right-to-work regime governed by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (sections 15 to 25) extends well beyond the PAYE workforce to cover workers on contracts for services, individual sub-contractors and ...

08/20/2026

8 min

Long-term absence is a Gen X problem UK employers are missing

Long-term absence has overtaken short-term absence as the dominant operational risk facing UK employers, and the demographic driving that shift is not the one most HR policies were designed around. Research from employee benefits provider ...

08/20/2026

6 min

DWP's Access to Work squeeze: the real cost for disabled screen freelancers

If you are a disabled freelancer working in UK television, radio, or film, the grant that helps you show up to work on equal terms may already be shrinking - quietly, without announcement, and without any formal policy change on paper. Access to ...

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