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10/27/2026

AI at work: 84% of UK bosses confident, only 41% of staff agree

A Microsoft survey of 5,000 UK employees and 1,000 senior business leaders has exposed a 41-percentage-point confidence gap that sits at the heart of the UK's AI moment. Nine in ten leaders expect AI to benefit British society within five years; ...

10/05/2026

7 min

48% of UK finance staff reject CFO role, survey finds

Nearly half of UK finance professionals surveyed by recruitment firm Robert Walters say they do not want to become CFO, according to research published in late September 2026. The findings, drawn from the report Beyond the Numbers: What it Takes ...

09/28/2026

6 min

UK middle managers tip toward burnout in September squeeze

Middle managers are the structural layer that most operating models lean on hardest, and the layer that most wellbeing strategies quietly assume will absorb whatever pressure arrives at its door. According to the CIPD's 2025 Health and Wellbeing ...

09/17/2026

8 min

DSIT awards £3.6m to support 300 women into frontier tech roles

A £3.6m contract, 300 placements, and an annual economic loss that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) itself puts at £2bn to £3.5bn. Those are the headline figures behind the TechFirst Women's Programme, which DSIT has aw...

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...

07/22/2026

7 min

FTSE 100 CEO pay hits record £5.06m: what the 130:1 ratio means for your pay packet

The typical chief executive of a FTSE 100 company now takes home 130 times the pay of the median full-time UK worker, the widest gap in eight years and the highest absolute figure on record. If you work for one of Britain's largest listed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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