Articles tagged ‘2018’

I had the absolute pleasure of listening to Sir Ranulph Fiennes keynote speech at the MHR HR Director’s breakfast event held at Claridge’s earlier this month.

Technology is a toolbox for the modern age. The job of the tools it contains is to make life easier through a more accurate and efficient process of carrying out tasks previously completed by humans (or new jobs beyond the grasp of humans). This could mean reducing staff to streamline businesses and reduce costs, or assisting the remaining staff so that they can carry out tasks more effectively through these partnerships.

You hire the best staff, after weeks of checking CVs and scouring LinkedIn, your HR team arrange a series of interviews and from here you make job offers to the very best people from the hundreds of applications you have received, knowing the right staff will take your business to the next level.

We live in a futuristic present, where technologies once considered worthy of science fiction are now increasingly part of our daily lives – automation, robotics, virtual reality (VR) and cloud computing to name but a few. All of these have changed, or will change, the way we live and work. Another that looks set to have a huge impact is augmented reality (AR).

As an HR professional, chances are you have been overwhelmed with GDPR-related news this last year. But with so much information available, it can be difficult to know exactly how the GDPR will affect you and your work.

Are you GDPR ready? Most businesses by now have a plan in place for processing data when the GDPR is enacted, but the essential step of data mapping might be getting missed by your business.

Much noise has been made about the eye-watering fines that GDPR will introduce, most notably the fact that organisations could be fined up to €20 million or 4% of global turnover, whichever is higher, for serious infringements. While all of that is technically true, a lot of the finer detail around GDPR fines can get lost amid the scaremongering.

No matter the size or specialisation, FE institutions have complex and highly specialised HR requirements.

With just over a month until the gender pay gap (GPG) reporting deadline, less than 15% of eligible organisations have published their results, with some experts predicting that a sizeable proportion will fail to make the early-April cut-off.