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UK workers take 7 months to feel productive in a new job

Seven months and counting. New research from HBHR, an AI-powered workforce management platform, finds that UK workers take an average of 7.3 months to feel fully settled and productive in a new role. That figure sits against a backdrop the ...

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IDR survey: UK's 2027 pay round settles into a 3% holding pattern

The early data on 2027 pay intentions offers little comfort to UK workers hoping for a meaningful improvement on recent years. According to the latest survey from Incomes Data Research (IDR), nearly three-quarters of UK organisations expect their ...

HESA data confirms UK CS coding jobs fell to 28%: where to look next

The job market for UK computer science graduates has shifted under their feet, and the data now makes that shift visible. The share of CS graduates landing professional coding or programming roles fell from around 40% to 28% in a single year, ...

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King's paternity review: six paid weeks could add £2.68bn to the UK economy

In Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency, roughly half of all fathers cannot afford to take the two weeks of paternity leave the state currently offers them. That is not a political projection; it is the arithmetic of Statutory Paternity Pay ...

Low Pay Commission's Dutch dilemma: UK youth minimum wage at a crossroads

The government is reconsidering one of Labour's most visible pledges to young workers, and the Low Pay Commission's autumn recommendation has become the hinge point. Labour's 2024 manifesto committed to abolishing the age bands that permit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...