COVID-19 and HR Stories

Employee Productivity and Organisational Performance

HR and customer service alignment

HR plus business alignment equals massive increase in customer satisfaction

Customer satisfaction levels among Top Employers organisations have skyrocketed during the pandemic – and an unparalleled alignment of HR and business...

Talent Acquisition and Management

One CEO on how to make staff redundancies with tact and diplomacy

One CEO on how to make staff redundancies with tact and diplomacy

With COVID-19 pressures, rollercoaster global market movements and the increasing automation of work, businesses face difficult decisions as we start...

Workplace Culture and Employee Experience

Coming out of COVID: we need a ‘leap of faith’ to combine old with new

Coming out of COVID: we need a ‘leap of faith’ to combine old with new

We need to start to plan our own post COVID world based on our experiences, changed priorities and perspectives of how best we will flourish in the...

Organisation Design, Development and Strategy

Four ways to help your teams through lockdown lethargy

Four ways to help your teams through lockdown lethargy

For those of us in the winter months the curtailed freedoms necessary as a result of the pandemic are beginning to take their toll. How can leaders in...

Employee Wellbeing

Home office during COVID-19 lockdown

Five ways to manage your screen time in a lockdown, according to tech experts

Time spent online is increasing. So how can we have a healthier relationship with digital technology?

HR Leaders and HR-Driven Value Creation

Crisis, creativity and continuity: HR on COVID changes for keeps

Crisis, creativity and continuity: HR on COVID changes for keeps

In May 2020 The People Space and 10Eighty held a week-long series of webinars to discover the practical steps HR directors were taking to deal with...

HR Leaders and HR-Driven Value Creation

Eugenio Pirri, chief people and culture officer of Dorchester Collection, on COVID-19

Eugenio Pirri, chief people and culture officer, on how coronavirus changed HR at Dorchester Collection

In May 2020 The People Space and 10Eighty held a week-long series of webinars to discover the practical steps HR directors were taking to deal with...

Leadership and Management

Michael Moran, CEO and founder 10Eighty, on COVID-19 pandemic

Michael Moran, CEO and founder at 10Eighty, on how coronavirus has changed HR

In May 2020 The People Space and 10Eighty held a week-long series of webinars to discover the practical steps HR directors were taking to deal with...

HR Leaders and HR-Driven Value Creation

Stephanie Neuvirth, global VP, people and organization at Mars Veterinary Health, on the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephanie Neuvirth, global VP, people and organization, on how coronavirus changed HR at Mars Veterinary Health

In May 2020 The People Space and 10Eighty held a week-long series of webinars to discover the practical steps HR directors were taking to deal with...

HR Leaders and HR-Driven Value Creation

Hayley Connor, Head of People and Learning at UK pub chain Brewhouse & Kitchen, on COVID-19

Hayley Connor, head of people and learning, on how coronavirus changed HR at Brewhouse and Kitchen

In May 2020 The People Space and 10Eighty held a week-long series of webinars to discover the practical steps HR directors were taking to deal with...

HR Leaders and HR-Driven Value Creation

David Frost, organisational development director at Total Produce, on COVID-19

David Frost, organisational development director, on how coronavirus changed HR at Total Produce

In May 2020 The People Space and 10Eighty held a week-long series of webinars to discover the practical steps HR directors were taking to deal with...

Purpose and Sustainability

Top practices to deliver COVID-era business resilience highlight people first approach

Top practices to deliver COVID-era business resilience highlight people first approach

High-performing organisations put people first when responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a survey of HR leaders worldwide. Josh Bersin Academy's...

Emerging Technologies in HR

Blockchain in HR

Could blockchain-based digital health passports reignite employee mobility in a post COVID world?

As international recruitment gets hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, can technology hold the key to turning the tap of professional migration on again? Yes...

HR Technology & Digital

Digital transformation

People and talent key to future digital transformation say leaders

Leaders say inadequate skills and employee burnout are the biggest barriers to digital transformation progress. Yet a new study finds significant...

Leadership and Management

Nebel Crowhurst, people and culture director Roche

HR Viewpoint: Nebel Crowhurst on leading in a remote working world

In the fourth in our series of interviews with future of work and HR experts, Nebel Crowhurst, people and culture director at pharmaceutical giant...

Employee Wellbeing

The good, the bad and the ugly: employee trends since the pandemic took hold

The good, the bad and the ugly: employee trends since the Coronavirus pandemic took hold

Nine months after the first confirmed COVID-19 cases, surveys show that employee distress signals are beginning to rise, But it’s not all bad news as...

HR Technology & Digital

Why data security is as much an HR issue as an IT issue during the coronavirus pandemic

Why data security is as much an HR as an IT issue

With the adoption of cloud-based software and digital tools hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to ensure HR data is...

Leadership and Management

Kessar Karim London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Leadership in an age of disruption

From new technologies in the workplace to the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders are dealing with unprecedented disruptions. In this short video from...

HR Leaders and HR-Driven Value Creation

Has the coronavirus pandemic elevated the perception of HR?

Has the coronavirus pandemic elevated the perception of HR?

HR professionals tell us they have never worked so hard. But has the business taken notice? The People Space asked six HR leaders how the COVID-19...

Innovation and Change Management

What one thing will HR leaders change post COVID-19: infographic

What one thing will HR leaders change post COVID-19: infographic

The People Space asked HR leaders which of the changes they have made in response to the coronavirus pandemic will stick going forward