HR Press

By Anthony Clasper, founder of Sausage Dog. Original research analysing 1,347+ UK job adverts. If you asked a hundred HR leaders what skills a 2026 office administrator is hired for, most would say Microsoft Office without thinking. Word. Excel. Outlook. The classic shortlisting bullet that has anchored admin adverts for twenty years. We pulled 102 live UK office admin adverts and counted what employers are actually asking for. The Microsoft Office bullet has almost vanished.

Boundless, the membership club for public sector and civil service workers, has expanded its employee benefits reach through new partnerships with the Charity for Civil Servants and employee rewards platform Each Person, extending access to more than 80,000 public sector employees across the UK.

As the number of workers in payrolled employment continues to drop, one of the UK’s leading HR and recruitment specialists, Gi Group, is partnering with an East Midlands multi-academy trust to deliver careers advice and training created expressly for the working world of the future, where AI and tech are baked in to the workforce.

Research undertaken by Occupational Health Assessment Limited suggests that many employers remain unaware of The Fair Work Agency. A survey undertaken by Occupational Health Assessment Limited suggest that more than nine in ten (92%) senior HR professionals have had no contact with the newly created (FWA), including 40% of employers that were not even aware of the FWA’s remit in the new – post Employment Rights Act 2025 – compliance landscape.

Greater Manchester HR consultancy recognised in Best CSR/ESG initiative category, with Team Member Christopher Brennan also shortlisted for the CIPD Outstanding Student Award Altum HR has been shortlisted in the Best CSR/ESG initiative category at the CIPD People Management Awards 2026, one of the UK’s leading awards programmes celebrating excellence across HR, learning and development, organisational development and people management.

Cognitive Strategist for professionals and leaders Natalie Mackenzie, breaks down why cognitive health should be top of the agenda for HR teams. The primary role of HR is to care for employees, so an understanding of the brain cognition of your staff (and of course your own brain) is within HR’s best interests.

By CEO of Onvero, Sandi Wassmer Leaders who treat culture as a strategic imperative, rather than an HR afterthought, build organisations that are resilient, high-performing, agile, and where burnout is a thing of the past. Organisations with great cultures are best equipped to navigate the challenge and complexity of operating in fast-moving and increasingly competitive markets.

Flexible working is often framed as a risk: a threat to productivity, fairness and operational stability. But for employers trying to retain talent, and especially those closing the gender pay gap at more senior levels, the bigger risk may be clinging to outdated working patterns that quietly push people out. Implementing flexible working undeniably carries costs.

The UK’s gender pay gap is still widely discussed as a pay issue. But for women in the workplace, the gap is not the cause. It’s the consequence of navigating career and care. New analysis from the TUC in 2026 showed that women effectively work 47 days a year unpaid compared with men. It is a stark figure, and it has prompted a legal requirement for large organisations to report their Gender Pay Gap annually. But focusing on pay alone risks treating the symptom, without touching the system.

UK-founded company is helping regulated enterprises deploy governed agentic AI inside private, sovereign and air-gapped environments Deliverance AI, the UK-founded Agentic Operating System (OS) for the enterprise, today announced its emergence from stealth with £6m ARR, more than 30 employees and six enterprise customers within three months of incorporation. Deliverance AI is building the operating system for sovereign enterprise AI.