AI forces Singapore’s largest bank to cut 10% of its staff
The DBS Group, based in Singapore, is reducing its workforce by 10% due to the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI). The bank has around 41,000 global employees and expects to cut 4,000 jobs. This will affect contract workers, temporary staff, but not permanent staff. DBS claims that the redundancies are the result of “natural […]
HR in 2050: from hidden powerhouses to the future of the workplace
The role of HR in recent years has received some criticism, which has made headlines. As we speed towards 20250, it is clear that the HR profession will need to become more valuable for their organisation. What is the hidden powerhouse of your home? Recently, Edelman surveyed 33,000 people in 28 countries. Nearly half of […]
Employers lose £24 billion annually due to youth mental health crisis: How can HR respond?
We’ve known for some time the scale of the youth mental health crisis is likely to increase. What has become fundamentally clear – and why this is an employer issue – is that this issue affects not only young people in the workplace, but also parents whose children are suffering. In the latest warning, several […]
The average advertised salary continues to rise
According to the latest data from Adzuna, a job matching platform in the UK, the average annual salary advertised in the UK reached a record-high in January. It found that the average salary increased by 1.45% per month and by 7.02% in comparison to January 2024. This was mainly due to salary increases in the […]
The true meaning of “people who get on the buses”
Leader of a powerful, large, and profitable multinational organisation, enjoys beer, unconventional thinking, and tenacity. He dislikes politics, losing money, and “people who get on a bus”. I thought the last phrase was business jargon. It’s what the big movers in industry and commerce would say to one another. What does it mean exactly? Was […]
AI revolutionising onboarding for hybrid world
In the hybrid workplace era, onboarding has become a critical — and often overlooked — driver of employee retention. Forbes reports that 30% of new employees leave within 90 days. This creates a dangerous gap between the expectations and the reality. Many employees are unhappy with their role or the organisation because it does not […]
Do you have employees who trust the management? If so, listen to their answers.
We asked employees from a variety of backgrounds. Do you trust what is being said to you? Do you have faith in those in authority? Do you think management knows what they’re doing? What they said “It’s not because managers intentionally mislead, but they can give an impression of certainty even though they know that […]
GMC ‘erases’ records on doctors who change gender
Health secretary Wes Streeting has called a decision by the General Medical Council to erase the disciplinary record of doctors who have changed gender ‘extremely concerning’. The GMC’s position came to light after a retired anaesthetist contacted the Telegraph newspaper with concerns that Dr Beth Upton – the trans doctor at the centre of a […]
Office politics: Beauty rears its ugly head
In our latest humorous take on HR, the link between physical attractiveness in the workplace and perceptions about ability turns heads. We are told “It is who you know” when we gaze in wonderment at the gilded career of the chosen few. Sometimes, co-workers may admit that certain people have rare leadership skills and are […]
Citigroup and KPMG abandon DEI in US
In the wake of the new US administration’s disdain for such programs, Citigroup and KPMG abandoned their diversity equity and inclusion initiatives this week. Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser sent an email to its staff in which she stated that it no longer required diverse interview panels or diverse candidates for job interviews. Fraser stated that […]