Elevate HR

09/18/2026

HMRC data: 6.9 million adults blind to their State Pension

Figures released by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to mark Pension Awareness Week (15 to 18 September 2026) reveal that roughly 6.9 million UK adults have never once looked at their State Pension forecast. That is one in eight of the adult ...

09/17/2026

7 min

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 ...

09/17/2026

6 min

Summer 2026 forces UK workforce redesign: the CIPD and ONS brief for HR directors

Summer 2026 has produced a structural reckoning for UK workforce planning, not merely an awkward seasonal blip. Research commissioned by payroll and HR software provider Zellis finds that 79% of UK organisations are implementing or actively ...

09/16/2026

6 min

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 ...

09/16/2026

9 min

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 ...

09/09/2026

7 min

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 ...

09/09/2026

8 min

AI leaderboards are reshaping UK performance reviews: what ACAS and Weightmans say workers must document

Your next performance review may quietly hinge on a number you have never seen: how often you reach for an AI tool at work. Disney, Meta, JP Morgan and KPMG have all introduced internal AI leaderboards that track and rank how staff use large ...

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