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Why businesses are raising their relocation game
- 17 Apr 2024
If businesses want to attract the best talent, they must keep finding ways to improve that support. Governments, too, need to get involved and make it easier to transfer skills across jurisdictional lines to prevent relocation from becoming a permanent drag on the trailing spouse’s career.
The transatlantic gulf in executive pay
- 10 Apr 2024
Should UK company bosses be paid more like their US counterparts? Concerned about their ability to attract and retain talent and Britain’s corporate competitiveness, many boards and investors are now increasingly willing to benchmark executive pay against their higher-earning transatlantic peers. After years of sidestepping this prickly issue, this is a marked shift in approach.
'Why are women still being cast off the glass cliff?
- 3 Apr 2024
The glass cliff describes the way women are deemed more likely to break through the glass ceiling and rise to a top job when things are dire, the risk of failure is high and men are less interested in the gig. Nearly 20 years after the so-called glass cliff was first identified, is the problem just as bad as ever?
‘Employers hold the cards now’ as power shifts in US jobs market
- 27 Mar 2024
Headline figures pointing to a booming US job market are masking a shift in the balance of power from employee to employer, with companies becoming more demanding of their staff as they find it easier to replace them.
‘Expectations will shift dramatically’: tech jobs move from science fiction to fact
- 20 Mar 2024
Jobseekers often look to roles in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as safe bets. Roles in cutting-edge science and AI will grow in demand, but tech will continue to transform existing roles as well.
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Quiet hiring: why managers are recruiting from their own ranks
- 13 Mar 2024
As a tight labour market makes finding outside expertise harder, managers identify who on payroll has nascent or existing skills, give them training, and reallocate their responsibilities to meet fresh needs.
'What the voices of female executives reveal on investor calls
- 6 Mar 2024
Scrutiny of women at the top of companies can be brutal and unsparing. Nowhere more so than in the Wall Street ritual of the earnings call where executives face questions from financial analysts and investors over the latest set of results.
CEO turnover: Cross-country effects
- 28 Feb 2024
Chief executive officers (CEOs) are considered critically important to the functioning of a corporation, providing the key leadership role for the company's operations. Just as important is the corporate board that determines whether to keep or dismiss the CEO. The authors sought to understand important aspects of the board's contracting and monitoring processes, through which culture may affect CEO turnover.
New jobs, green jobs: Planet-friendly roles dominate hiring
- 21 Feb 2024
In sectors from energy to construction and transport, government programmes such as the US Inflation Reduction Act, and the rise of ESG investment, are accelerating work towards net zero targets, and demand for people to do it. Green jobs, defined as roles focused on sustainability and environmentally-friendly activities, now make up a third of postings in the UK.
The scramble to find CFOs as departures hit decade high
- 15 Feb 2024
Decade-high turnover among chief financial officers in the UK and elevated departure rates in the US and Europe have left large companies scrambling to fill the role, forcing many to expand their searches, rethink requirements and pay more to their top choices.
Beyond tech: the extra skills needed to future-proof careers
- 7 Feb 2024
Frontier AI systems are becoming increasingly powerful, with potential repercussions across the labour market. Future-proofing careers will mean not only gaining hard skills around technology but also developing a willingness to innovate, pivot, and learn on the fly.
The joy of being a great deputy
- 24 Jan 2024
All leaders are incomplete. To have a deputy who completes the suite of leadership capabilities is the dream. Classically deputies are completer-finishers, process-orientated and deliverers, challenging leaders and acting as sounding boards. So why do so few aspire to these positions?
Why companies are tapping the boardroom for their next CEO
- 24 Jan 2024
As Chief Executive vacancies rise, so does the appeal of insider-outsider candidates. Board members are separate enough to enact change, but hold detailed knowledge of the company's culture, strategy, and goals.
UK recruiters register sharp rise in jobseekers as employers cut back
- 17 Jan 2024
The growing pool of jobseekers reflects the growing trend of workforce restructuring and redundancy elimination across UK businesses. Employers are now tasked with raising offers to secure qualified jobseekers.
FinecoBank takes on Italy’s women-in-workforce challenge
- 10 Jan 2024
Getting women into the workforce, and keeping them in the labour market through their child-rearing years, is a huge challenge for Italy, which has Europe’s lowest female labour force participation rate. Italy’s top company in the FT-Statista list of Diversity Leaders, strives to create an inclusive workplace in which all staff can juggle the demands of work and family.
In search of chief executives who never grow 'old'
- 3 Jan 2024
An increasing number of big companies are abandoning or waiving mandatory retirement ages in favor of competance-based executive appraisal.
Yawning skills gaps pose ‘a real challenge’
- 27 Dec 2023
A recent survey revealed that 36% of workforce vacancies resulted from skills shortages. Declining support for life-long learning isn't helping.
Whitehall seeks to turbocharge recruitment from the private sector
- 20 Dec 2023
Recruiting industry executives to civil service is one pillar of Britain's strategy to tackle the public sector’s productivity problem.
Why personal conduct is a growing risk for business
- 13 Dec 2023
Embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval.
Hit the snooze button: it’s good for you
- 6 Dec 2023
Getting up to exercise at 4am like a CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — the real health benefits are for later risers.
