Insights
Practical thinking on HR, employment law, management, and the real challenges businesses face.
Private Equity
TUPE Is Not an HR Process. It's a Commercial Negotiation You're Letting HR Handle Alone.
Private Equity
You Don't Need a New HRD. You Need to Understand Why the Last One Failed.
Employment Law
The Redundancy Process Most Businesses Run Would Not Survive Fifteen Minutes of Cross-Examination.
Opinion
AI Can Work Inside a Box. Marketing Mostly Happens Outside It.
Managing People
That Performance Problem is a Management Problem You're Not Seeing.
Private Equity
The Number That Determines Whether Your Acquisition Was Worth Making
Opinion
Capability Is Not Strategy: What AI Leaders Cannot Tell You About Your Workforce
Managing People
The Six-Month Qualifying Period Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to Your Business. Here's Why.
HR Compliance
Your Sick Pay Bill Just Changed. The Absence Problem It Reveals Was Already There.
Organisational Change
The Employment Rights Act 2025 Is the Excuse You Needed to Finally Run Your Business Properly.
Managing People
You're Advertising for Talent the Same Way You Advertise for Customers. It Isn't Working for Either.
Opinion
Your Product Roadmap Is a Brilliant Solution to a Problem Your Customers Don't Have
HR Compliance
What Every Business Needs to Know About Settlement Agreements
Organisational Change
The ERA 2025 Gave Unions the Keys. Nobody Asked Whether They Know How to Drive.
Private Equity
The Exit You're Preparing For Is Already Priced Against You
Managing People
You're Managing Absence. You Should Be Managing What Absence Is Telling You.
Opinion
Your P&L Will Never Show It But the Cost of Efficiency is Value
Employment Law
The Grievance You Just Received Is the Best Intelligence Your Business Will Get This Year.
HR Compliance
Your Contracts Used to Work. They're Now a Liability for the Business You Are.
HR Compliance
Your Disciplinary Process Isn't Protecting You. It's Building the Case Against You.
Private Equity
The People Due Diligence Gap: What the Data Room Will Never Tell You
Opinion
The Market You Exited During the Downturn Is the Market You Cannot Afford to Re-Enter Now
Private Equity
Your First Hundred Days Are Already Over. You Just Haven't Realised It Yet.
Opinion
You've Done the Financial Due Diligence. You Have No Idea What You've Bought.
Employment Law
The Cost of Getting Redundancy Wrong Just Doubled. Most Businesses Don't Know Why.
Employment Law
You're Paying Too Much for Your Settlement Agreements. Here's Why.
Opinion