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• Men face greater career penalty for working from home, study finds

  28-09-2026 07:40 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Homeworking for three or four days a week attracted a greater penalty in staff ratings than working remotely for one or two days.
  
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• New Right to Work rules risk slowing recruitment, REC warns

  02-10-2026 07:49 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Expanded Right to Work obligations have prompted warnings that additional compliance requirements could slow recruitment and encourage more cautious hiring.
  
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• £100m apprenticeship drive aims to connect young people with employers

  02-10-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  An expansion of local apprenticeship services will match young people with businesses and seek to create thousands of training opportunities.
  
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• Job descriptions lie: How to rethink role design for AI

  01-10-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  Summary: Job descriptions treat a role as one fixed set of tasks. But AI means some of those tasks now belong to machines, some to people and some to both. Sorting them this way can show where people are being measured and rewarded for the wrong things. And it can start with just one role.I’ve worked in the HR space for almost 25 years now. I learned a long time ago that job descriptions lie. Not maliciously, obviously. They just describe a fictional, one-dimensional perspective. That
  
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• Government prepares for ‘unprecedented’ AI impact on UK jobs

  01-10-2026 08:00 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Ministers are preparing for severe labour market disruption from AI while examining whether automation is already reducing recruitment.
  
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• BA cabin crew case could see wider holiday pay claims take off

  01-10-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Former British Airways cabin crew are challenging their holiday entitlement in a case that could have implications for similar working arrangements across aviation.
  
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• Triple lock changes could reshape retirement planning for workers

  30-09-2026 10:41 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Planned changes to state pension increases and the introduction of free personal care could alter the financial calculations employees make for retirement.
  
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• The hidden cost of getting discipline wrong

  30-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  Summary: There are many hidden costs to getting discipline wrong. These can have a long-term impact on both organisational culture and effectiveness. Lost staff, damaged teams and burnt-out HR professionals are among the repercussions.Acas recently estimated that the cost of managing formal disciplinary and grievance procedures for UK employers is £2.36 billion a year.And whilst concerns about the cost related to disciplinary procedures is often associated with employment tribunals and leg
  
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• HR must demonstrate its value to business, new CIPD chief says

  30-09-2026 08:15 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Neil Carberry has begun his tenure at the CIPD by challenging HR to make a stronger case for its contribution to performance, productivity and growth.
  
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• Five steps: How HR can pass the ‘Octopus Test’ before agentic AI gets its tentacles into everything

  29-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  For the past couple of years, most workplace conversations about AI have focused on prompting: how to ask better questions, write a stronger first draft, summarise a document or save ten minutes on an email.Useful? Sometimes. Transformational? No.But connected, agentic tools such as Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work are changing the nature of the conversation. This is no longer simply about what somebody types into a chat box; it is about what the technology can access, connect, retrieve, analyse a
  
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• Employer confidence rises but remains fragile ahead of Budget: REC

  29-09-2026 08:00 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Hiring intentions remain muted despite an improvement in business sentiment, with employers calling for action on employment costs in the Budget.
  
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• UK workers risk being caught out by changing job requirements, PwC warns

  29-09-2026 07:30 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Economic pressures and workplace demands may be obscuring gaps in how prepared employees are for changing skills needs.
  
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• AI and HR: A new workplace bureaucracy perspective

  28-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  Summary: Bureaucracy might sound old-fashioned, but actually offers a useful lens for understanding AI’s mixed effects on HR. Used badly, AI creates new bureaucracy but used well it removes friction while keeping human oversight.The word ‘bureaucracy’ is not always used in workplace headlines and can feel old-fashioned. Yet bureaucracy still exerts a pervasive influence in our governments, organisations and everyday lives. This makes it a powerful, under-utilised perspective fo
  
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• Care manager awarded £15,000 after being sacked for having baby

  28-09-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  A tribunal rejected a care provider's financial difficulties defence after its director tried to cut the employee's pay and removed her from running the business.
  
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• Legal & General to cut 1,000 jobs by mid-2027

  25-09-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  The insurance and pensions group will seek voluntary redundancies first, with compulsory cuts possible if it does not achieve the required reduction.
  
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• Recognition linked to 21-fold increase in employee innovation

  25-09-2026 07:30 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Research across 23 countries links workplace culture with employee trust, innovation, growth and resilience during periods of change.
  
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• Five steps: How HRBPs can become culture change accelerators 

  24-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  Recently I had a conversation with another client where, in order to create the culture change they need across the organisation, their HR Business Partner, HRBP team need to be much more confident in challenging, pushing back and shifting mindsets rather than just saying ‘yes’ to their business colleagues’ demands. It’s a conversation that comes up a lot.Easier said than doneOvercoming this predicament may sound straightforward on paper but is harder to achieve than
  
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• New workplace health standards planned to tackle long-term sickness

  24-09-2026 08:00 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Around 300,000 people with health conditions leave employment each year, with employers encouraged to intervene before absence becomes prolonged.
  
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• Lack of experience creates £14.4bn ‘first jobs’ crisis for young people

  24-09-2026 07:30 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Employers say young people are struggling to gain the workplace skills they demand as entry-level recruitment comes under pressure.
  
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• An expensive lesson on how not to deal with protected disclosures

  23-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  Summary: Nuffield Health was ordered to pay £150,000 after a tribunal found a pattern of poor treatment following an employee’s whistleblowing complaint. This acts as a reminder that these cases rarely come down to one bad decision, but a string of smaller ones nobody stepped in to fix.An employment tribunal hit the headlines after a personal trainer at the gym group, Nuffield Health, was forced to drive overnight from Germany after her boss ordered her to attend a meeting, only for
  
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• Employers told to prepare for expanded bereavement leave rights

  23-09-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Employees will be able to take unpaid leave flexibly within 56 weeks of a loss without having to provide evidence of the bereavement.
  
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• Judge warns over AI use after worker files 300-page ChatGPT appeal

  23-09-2026 07:30 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  The tribunal said people using generative AI for documents remain responsible for checking their accuracy, relevance and compliance with procedural rules.
  
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• Why experts need to embrace the beginners mindset

  22-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  When people are asked to reskill, they are not just learning new tools. They are relearning how to feel competent. As AI accelerates the pace of workplace change, experienced professionals face a particular challenge: the skills that earned them credibility over years or decades offer little advantage in mastering unfamiliar technology. Research suggests many older workers actually want AI training, but the deeper struggle is rarely about willingness. People who have spent years as the
  
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• AI could affect 60 percent of jobs in advanced economies, IMF warns

  22-09-2026 08:00 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  One in 10 vacancies in advanced economies already requires at least one emerging skill as employers adapt to artificial intelligence.
  
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• Half of workers delay medical care as employers face £87bn ill-health bill

  22-09-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Difficulties getting timely healthcare are contributing to absence and presenteeism, while employees report concerns about fitting medical care around their jobs.
  
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• How to build psychological safety into recruitment

  21-09-2026 09:00 via hrzone.com
  
  Summary: Teams experience psychological safety and the organisation’s systems either support it or work against it. Recruitment is the first of those systems anyone experiences. Here’s how each of the five foundations of psychological safety shows up in recruitment. Recruitment gives people their first direct experience of an organisation, and it is where impressions of fairness, clarity and openness form.Jackie LeFevre, a national expert in values, points out that every organis
  
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• Britain becoming a ‘sickness economy’, doctors warn

  21-09-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Access to occupational health varies sharply by employer size, while most employees say they would accept an assessment if offered one.
  
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• UK ranks last in G7 for supporting older workers

  21-09-2026 07:30 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Older UK employees receive substantially less job-related training than their younger colleagues and face a small earnings disadvantage.
  
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• Men pocket £2,380 more in bonuses than women, figures reveal

  18-09-2026 07:45 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Men are also more likely to receive bonuses, while the difference in average awards reaches £5,048 among recipients aged 56.
  
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• Thousands of Barclays staff oppose three-day office rule

  18-09-2026 07:30 via hrreview.co.uk
  
  Unite is seeking exemptions for longer-distance commuters and carers as well as a one-off payment to help employees meet additional travel costs.
  
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