HR Zone

2 weeks ago | hrzone.com | Jo Burrell

HR supervision is fast becoming a crucial tool in the modern workplace. In recent years, organisations have invested heavily in employee wellbeing, offering everything from mental health days to mindfulness apps. But amid all this, one critical group has typically been overlooked: HR professionals. Ironically, those responsible for supporting others are rarely given the same structured support themselves. HR teams manage emotionally complex, ethically challenging, and high-stakes issues.

2 weeks ago | hrzone.com | Becky Norman

Employee engagement fell for the second time in 12 years, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025 report. The 2% drop – from 23% to 21% – matches the decline seen in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdowns. The fact that we’ve returned to an engagement level last seen at the height of the pandemic is concerning. That period was defined by stay-at-home orders, widespread uncertainty about health and employment, and unprecedented disruption.

2 weeks ago | hrzone.com | Kate Palmer

Many of us have experienced the frustration of having put our lunch in the office fridge, spending our morning looking forward to it, only to come back at lunch time to find it is no longer there. That’s bad enough as it is, but what if it hadn’t just been stolen, instead it had been destroyed and left for you to find?

1 month ago | hrzone.com | Kate Palmer

If you work in HR, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that the . MPs recently backed the Employment Rights Bill after its third reading in the House of Commons and it is now progressing through the House of Lords for further scrutiny. Dubbed ‘the biggest change to workers’ rights in a generation’ by the government, the Employment Rights Bill was first introduced last October, meeting their election pledge to introduce changes within 100 days of coming into office.

1 month ago | hrzone.com | Becky Norman

It’s estimated that 15-20% of people worldwide are neurodivergent, yet many organisations still fail to build neuroinclusion in the workplace. In fact, revealed only half of neurodivergent employees felt their organisation had an ‘open and supportive’ climate for them. To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week (17th – 23rd March 2025), a global initiative that challenges misconceptions about neurological differences, we examine key considerations for driving neuroinclusion in the workplace.