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A recent report has shown that just 46% of businesses are planning to take on a young person in 2021 – this is despite new government incentives to do so

Digital talent acquisition agency Beringer Tame outlines the key trends that will come to the fore next year on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic

Recruiting and keeping employees happy is a major part of any business.

A well-written CV and a confident attitude in a face-to-face interview aren’t enough for recruiters to decide whether a candidate is the right person for a role says Nicolas Speeckaert from skeeled, a provider of AI predictive talent acquisition software, who urges employers to also carry out a personality assessment to avoid costly hire mistakes in 2021.

High-skilled tech workers facing jobs uncertainty in the wake of the economic double-impact of coronavirus and Brexit are being thrown a lifeline by British start-up Distributed.

New research conducted by Accountancy and Finance, HR and Data Analytics recruiter, Wade Macdonald has found that 44 per cent of employees are finding working from home much harder, physically, mentally and emotionally, than being in the office

Conducted in collaboration with business wellbeing specialists, Robertson Cooper, the research reveals that personality plays a key role in determining our preferences, behaviours and outcomes – at home and work – and predicts a third of our wellbeing levels and a quarter of our life satisfaction scores.

PUSH, a leading wellbeing and performance company, has hailed 2020 as the year employers began prioritising the mental health and wellbeing of employees.

With 66% of UK hauliers concerned about the increased admin required in preparation to cross the border, they reveal the changes caused by the Brexit transition.

As companies struggle to motivate teams working remotely, new research published on the 8th January 2021 reveals that employers who support their staff to volunteer in schools and colleges has found employees to be more motivated, more productive and have a better sense of well-being.

With not long to go until the end of the transition period, just 18% of firms that believe they’ll be negatively impacted have finished preparing for the changes.

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We hoped we could leave the word ‘lockdown’ back in 2020, but here we are again

As the UK goes into a third lockdown, Adrian Lewis from Activ Absence is urging employers to ensure they have strategies in place for looking after the mental health of their workforce, after the charity Mind [i] warned this week that mental health is 'worsening across the spectrum'