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2 days ago | 
ere.net | Ron Thomas |Matt Lowney |Peter Crush |Mark Murphy
May 13, 2025
I recently came across a video that stopped me in my tracks. It featured children joyfully declaring what they wanted to be when they grew up—astronauts, dancers, scientists, and firefighters.
There was no hesitation. Just vision. Just belief. It made me pause and ask:
Why do we stop asking that question?
Somewhere along the way, we swap childhood dreams for adult realities. Job descriptions replace curiosity. KPIs replace ambition.
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4 weeks ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
FeatureWellbeing 7 mins readHR GrapevineHR Grapevine | Executive Grapevine International LtdEarlier this month saw the the first anniversary of legislation that (for many), was heralded as the last big change in working practices – the ability for employees to request flexible working from day one.
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1 month ago | 
ere.net | Matt Lowney |Raghav Singh |Mark Murphy |Peter Crush
I love working with highly skilled, committed recruiters. The recruiters who just get things done by focusing on outcomes, while managing the needed processes in the background. However, in times of rapid growth or project deployments recruiting leaders do not have the luxury of identifying, hiring, training, and developing recruiters to this level of expertise.
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1 month ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
FeatureChange 8 mins readHR GrapevineHR Grapevine | Executive Grapevine International LtdIf there was one thing Covid-19 helped accelerate, it was undoubtedly the ‘side-hustle’. Already popular pre-pandemic (when one in five Britons had a second income by March 2020 –16% of which were earning more than £1,000 a month), by 2024, this figure has grown significantly.
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1 month ago | 
ere.net | Raghav Singh |Mark Murphy |Peter Crush |Rupert Morrison
Apr 8, 2025Despite significant progress, people with disabilities remain much less likely to be employed than their non-disabled peers. One key factor behind this inequality is unconscious bias — automatic judgments shaped by stereotypes and cultural conditioning, made without our conscious awareness. Research shows that over one-third of people perceive disabled individuals as less productive — a level of bias higher than what’s seen based on gender or race.
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1 month ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
1) The HRD Robert HicksUntil last month, Robert Hicks was the Chief People Officer at Atheneum. When the first lockdown happened, he was Group HR Director at Reward Gateway:“As a global business, we were already early adopters of video-conferencing tech – such as that by Google – and as soon as it became clear that work was going to go remote, for us, it was a case of just accelerating what we were already doing.
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1 month ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
It’s as regular as clockwork. This time of year means one just thing to many –bonus season. Data finds the average UK bonus for 2024 was £2,242, although when broken down by occupation it can be significantly higher for some – reaching £7,878 for corporate managers and directors, and that’s not including what the real big-hitters in the world of corporate finance can expect.
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1 month ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
It’s been seven years since businesses first published their gender pay data (or more accurately, their ‘pay-gap’ data) – in legislation first passed in 2017, which would ensure firms would have what the Business Energy & Industrial Strategy Committee, called an “equality spotlight” shining on them. Back then, the difference in median hourly pay was 18.4% in favour of men.
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1 month ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
ColumnResourcing 11 mins readDo personality/culture-fit tests discriminate against jobseekers who are neurodiverse? Many experts argue they do, and that better ways to select applicants is needed, as Peter Crush finds out... HR GrapevineHR Grapevine | Executive Grapevine International LtdWhen Leanne Maskell left university and began the process of applying for jobs, she recalls the terrifying moment when she was faced with sitting a slew of verbal reasoning and personality tests.
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1 month ago | 
hrgrapevine.com | Peter Crush
Case StudyBy Peter CrushIt’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week. And when people and development coordinator, Sophia Newman, was diagnosed as autistic last year, it spurred her to launch VML Enterprise Solutions’ own neurodiversity awareness training... It’s a shocking fact that 80% of women are not diagnosed as being autistic or as having ADHD until they are adults. Often, it’s because women and young girls simply do not display the traditional signs that boys/men do.
