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HR roles and responsibilities

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  • Date:
    23 February 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    HR strategy essentials: Laying the foundations for success

    Hearing that you are supposed to "be strategic" and create a strategy in your HR role can be incredibly daunting. That's probably because you've never been taught what it means or how to do it. Here, Fay Wallis offers clear, actionable steps to create a strategy that adds real value. 

  • Date:
    25 January 2024
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    The evolving people profession: XpertHR research of HR teams

    The 22nd annual XpertHR survey on HR roles and responsibilities explores how the profession is evolving with respect to job roles, capabilities and responsibilities. It also provides key metrics to understand the composition of the function across responding organisations.

  • Date:
    27 April 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Five steps to save yourself from burning out - help for struggling HR professionals

    According to a recent survey, 98 per cent of HR professionals said they had felt burned out in the past six months. In this episode we ask: What is burnout exactly? Why is it afflicting so many people working in HR? And - crucially - what can you do to keep burnout at bay?

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR roles and responsibilities 2023 survey: Key metrics

    The 21st annual XpertHR survey of the HR function reports on key metrics for the profession, including trends in the ratio of HR practitioners to employees, as well as key priorities for the year ahead and where HR is spending its time.

  • Date:
    25 November 2022
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Employers' response to the cost-of-living crisis: XpertHR survey 2022

    Pay settlements have risen to their highest levels for 30 years, but most still fall short of inflation. We look at how the pressure on living standards caused by the cost-of-living crisis means employers are looking at other levers to support employees.

  • Date:
    22 March 2022
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: HR careers and roles - what our surveys reveal

    Noelle Murphy, senior HR practice editor at XpertHR, explores the findings from XpertHR's recent HR careers survey including the impact of the pandemic and hybrid working practices on HR professionals and discusses priorities and challenges on the HR agenda.

  • Date:
    14 March 2022
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR roles and responsibilities 2022 survey: Key metrics

    XpertHR's 20th annual survey of the HR function reports on key metrics for the profession, including the ratio of HR practitioners to employees, HR budgets, HR practitioners' skills and experience and how they allocate their working time.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR careers: XpertHR survey 2022

    XpertHR research looks at what brought UK professionals to HR and how they are advancing their careers in the profession.

  • Date:
    17 February 2022
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR roles 2022 survey: Recovering, rebuilding and back to business

    While dealing with the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to touch each area of the HR function, there are also perennial issues that require attention, such as recruitment and retention.

  • Date:
    30 March 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: HR's response to COVID-19 and key metrics

    How has HR risen to the challenges of COVID-19? Senior HR practice editor Noelle Murphy takes us through the latest findings from XpertHR's annual survey of HR roles and responsibilities.

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