Employee Incentives 2026: HR Strategy, Risk & Pay Law
Employee incentives sit at the intersection of motivation, money, fairness and risk. For HR teams and business owners, they are rarely just about “rewarding good performance”. Incentives influence behaviour, shape workplace culture, affect employee retention and can quietly create legal and cost exposure if they are not designed and controlled properly. In practice, incentive schemes […]
Employee Wellbeing Programme: Practical 2026 Employer Guide
Employee wellbeing programmes now sit at the intersection of people strategy, operational risk and legal accountability. For many UK employers, wellbeing has moved well beyond discretionary benefits or engagement initiatives and into the core of how work is designed, managed and governed. Decisions about workload, flexibility, management capability, mental health support and organisational culture increasingly […]
10 Employee Engagement Ideas That Actually Work
Employee engagement is often discussed as if it were a discrete HR initiative — something that can be improved through campaigns, perks or periodic activity. In practice, engagement is an outcome of how work is designed, how managers behave and how consistently organisations honour the expectations they set for their workforce. For UK employers, engagement […]
Certificate of Sponsorship 2026: Request, Assign & Amend
Section A: What is a Certificate of Sponsorship? A Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) is a digital record that allows foreign nationals to apply for a visa to work in the UK under certain sponsored categories. A CoS is a unique reference code, not a physical document. Before an employer can sponsor a foreign […]