Gender Equality in Recruitment & the Wider Market

August 26, 2022 Just 19% of UK employees think there is gender equality in the workplace, according to new research by technology giant Samsung. Workplace gender stereotypes are reportedly still rife in the UK, as nearly half (44%) of workers said they still believe certain jobs are exclusively male or female. The gender pay gap remains stubbornly high, and too

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Learn your employee’s hidden talents

The two met commonreasons for leaving one job for another in the UKare resignation or ‘other’. Not the result of redundancy, dismissal, the termination of temporary contracts, or for health, family or other personal reasons, this means that 67% of job movers were motivated bysomething else. I’m willing to bet that a large proportion of that 67% left because they

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GDPR: A breach can cost the Earth. Compliance needn’t.

​Under the Data Protection Act 1998 all businesses in the UK that hold data about clients, contractors and employees (all referred to as “data subjects”), must have legal grounds for doing so.Historically, this has often been on the grounds of the data subject’s consent, which is not defined in the legislation, but is described in EU data protection directives as

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