More companies are mandating office days or even tracking the working locations of their employees. Rachel Houghton of Business Moves Group digs into some of the factors at play when creating a hybrid work policy It seems that the hybrid ...

Kingdom Services Group has announced its acquisition of recruitment company, MC Personnel Ltd. Established in 1998, MC Personnel has over 400 staff which it places into the Industrial, Food, Production, Manufacturing, Hospitality, and Driving sectors throughout Kent, South East London and ...

A new skills and policy department has been launched by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) to address the major training and recruitment challenges faced by the sector. A team of skills and policy specialists will focus on improving the ...

Invest in social mobility to create career opportunities and sustainable employment, says Toni-Marie Vaughan, Head of Social Mobility, OCS UK Social mobility should be considered a key investment as it is not only important for hiring practices, but helps breakdown ...

A recent poll conducted by Robert Walters, has found that an unprecedented number of professionals are choosing to remain with their current employer, a phenomenon which the recruitment firm calls ‘The Big Stay’. Over two-thirds of UK professionals (71 per ...

A new report from AI-powered skills training platform Lingio reveals the key challenges of employee retention, engagement, and compliance in frontline services. Sara Bean reports Frontline workers are the backbone of many FM related services, including hospitality, transportation, cleaning, and ...

Sodexo’s Starting Fresh programme which aims to encourage UK businesses to recruit people with convictions has been recognised at the 2024 Footprint Awards for sustainability excellence, winning the Social Impact and Diversity award. Sodexo launched its Starting Fresh initiative in ...

Fifty-seven per cent of UK employers have stated that they are now hiring less graduates than last year. This comes as recent figures from job search engine Adzuna show that graduate positions have dropped nearly a third across the UK ...

Emma Thornton, Marketing Manager at FM Recruitment Experts – 300 North asks, is the underrepresentation of women in FM down to poor communication? Women make up around 21 per cent of the FM workforce according to an IFMA survey. An ...

A third (34 per cent) of UK businesses are finding themselves short-staffed at least once a week due to worker illness and the difficulty of recruiting enough people to fill gaps, reveals new research by online marketplace for flexible and ...