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How to personalise employment support: what can we learn from the Restart programme to support ‘Get Britain Working’?
17 Nov 2025Jonathan Buzzeo reflects on the importance of personalised employment support and provides practical approaches and examples of how this can be achieved.
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Maintaining momentum to Keep Britain Working
11 Nov 2025Naomi Clayton takes an in-depth look at the newly published Keep Britain Working Review, including summarising the key findings and how the recommendations can best be implemented.
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November Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
11 Nov 2025The labour market continues to cool. The last two months have seen the most significant falls in payrolled employment in the last year, which has fallen for 11 of the last 12 months.
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‘Do no harm’: a message for HR?
10 Nov 2025Jonny Gifford explores the role of HR in the context of disciplinary processes, including the importance of adopting a humane approach rather than over-reliance on set procedures, and encourages HR professionals to critically examine their decisions from a 'do no harm' perspective.
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JobsPlus: early outcomes from a place-based pilot
23 Oct 2025Amy Fox summarises the results of the interim JobsPlus pilot evaluation, including their significance in the context of the Get Britain Working White Paper. This blog is in advance of the webinar IES will be hosting in November to explore additional emerging results from the evaluation, and what it means for future policy and practice.
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HR and reward strategies 2025/6: ‘festina lente’ - act less, plan more
21 Oct 2025In his latest blog, Principal Associate Dr Duncan Brown questions whether HR leaders need to ‘think slow’, review their crisis-driven ‘fast’ reactions and plan a clearer direction for their future workforce.
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October Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
14 Oct 2025There are early signs that the labour market is starting to stabilise, as the pace of decline in jobs is slowing.
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Is the people factor being lost in the productivity debate?
17 Sep 2025Ahead of the IES conference which will focus on productivity through people, Dan Lucy examines the roles of both HR and government policy in addressing the current comparatively low rate of productivity in the UK.
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September Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
16 Sep 2025The labour market continues to cool, with falling payroll numbers, vacancies and weakening pay growth, as employer confidence remains low.
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Fair trials: why inclusive research is key to fairer futures
15 Sep 2025Dr Alexandra Nancarrow and Dr Susie Bamford take an in-depth look at the importance of inclusive research and its role in improving social equity in the UK, and reflect on specific IES projects which have demonstrated this.