What Employers Need to Know about Voluntary Redundancy
Voluntary redundancy is one option for employers to consider when HR managers are faced with a tough choice. It’s important to understand the legal nuances [...]
Imogen Hall
Imogen is a freelance writer specialising in health, travel and people, who loves creating content that is accessible and easy to digest. She is also currently in her second year of retraining to be a children and adolescent therapist. In her spare time, she goes cold water swimming, plays tennis and loves to travel with her family and their dog.
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How to Write a Personal Development Plan (PDP)
You may have been asked to write your own personal development plan, or you may be involved in helping your direct reports write their own. [...]
Build your Company’s Recruitment Process Policy
Recruiting employees to fill vacant or new positions in an organisation is time-consuming. It pays to think about how you want to run the recruitment [...]
UK Labour’s Right To Switch Off: Employer’s Guide
In June 2024, the Labour Party launched a document laying out its manifesto to transform employment practices in the UK. The document was called ‘Make [...]
Competency Based Interview Questions for Hiring
Anyone involved in recruitment interviews will likely have used competency-based interview questions without realising it. These questions are a surefire way to get to know [...]
OTE Meaning: An Employers’ Guide
As an employer, you may already know what ‘OTE’ means and use it to structure salaries in your business. Alternatively, you may wonder what the [...]
Accountability in Leadership: Definition and Ways to Implement
Back in 2016, the Harvard Business Review published an article asking ‘Do you understand what accountability in leadership really means?’. The article made the point [...]
8 Best Job Search Websites UK
If you’ve started the new year with the intention of finding a job, you may be wondering which of the many job sites available you [...]
How to Write a Company Social Media Policy
Whether you love it or loathe it (or feel ambivalent about it), social media is now one of the most common ways we communicate with [...]
Unpaid Overtime UK: Your Rights and Claiming Back
Unpaid overtime is when you work longer than your regular hours (those fixed by your contract) and do not receive any pay for the extra [...]
5 Biggest Workplace Trends 2025
As the year draws to a close, here at Factorial, we are focusing on what lies ahead for the world of work and for HR [...]
How to Structure a Management Training Course
Taking on a management role is a significant step for most employees because it requires a change in skillset. People management involves coordinating a team [...]
How to Negotiate Salary and Write a Salary Negotiation Email
Whether you have received a job offer and are negotiating your starting salary or are already in a role and believe your salary no longer [...]
Business Owner Guide to Tax Audits and How to Avoid Them
Tax audits can be a very stressful and intimidating process for business owners to go through. While some audits are triggered randomly, the majority occur [...]
The 8 Best HR Conferences to Attend in the UK in 2025
Maybe you are starting to think ahead to 2025 and are considering attending a conference as part of your career development as an HR professional, [...]
Empathetic Leadership and Why it’s Important
The concept of empathy is mentioned frequently in the context of emotional intelligence. Thanks to Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter [...]
CEO Network Events and Communities in the UK
If you are a CEO, networking is a powerful tool for developing your business knowledge and supporting the growth of the business you lead. If [...]
Complete List of UK Bank Holidays for 2025
Full List of UK Bank Holidays 2025 You will have slightly different bank holidays in 2025 depending where you live in the UK. England & [...]
How to Avoid Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
Most of us have heard of unconscious bias, but have you really considered how it impacts your life? It’s easy to think it only applies [...]
How to Network and Make Valuable Connections
It’s common to hear people say how important networking is for career development. If you know it’s something you should be doing but are unsure [...]
8 Ways to Motivate Employees
When we are motivated, we feel enthusiastic and optimistic about our actions. Motivated employees feel better about themselves and their jobs, which improves their quality [...]
Procurement Manager: Job Description, Duties, Responsibilities
If you are considering recruiting a procurement manager for your company, read on to learn more about what this role entails and suggestions of what [...]
Golden Handcuffs: Definition, Meaning, Examples
You may be familiar with the term ‘golden handcuffs’, a position where significant financial compensation ensures an individual is tied to a role even if [...]
What is a Skills Gap? + Conducting a Skills Gap Analysis
What Is A Skills Gap? The term ‘skills gap’ describes the difference between the skills an organisation needs to achieve its business goals and the [...]