Everybody needs friends – a workplace imperative

Personal relationships in the workplace

This factsheet looks at the policies and procedures employers can put in place around relationships in the workplace, to mitigate risks to the business and their employees

UK industrial relations: A future with trade unions

Survey findings on employer and employee perspectives on trade union representation and relations, giving expert insight. The report makes recommendations on how to prepare for the key Employment Rights Bill reforms around trade union rights and strengthen employer and trade union partnership for mutual gain

22 Oct, 2025

Employers raise concerns about new union rights amid worries the UK is entering a more unstable period of employment relations, CIPD finds

Analysis | How can policy-makers boost the health and employment of working age people?

Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser at the CIPD, uses recent data from the CIPD’s Health and wellbeing at work survey report, supported by Simplyhealth to offer recommendations for organisations and UK Government policy-makers to help reduce record-high employee absence

Leading an agile workforce – lessons from the NHS

Katie Stickland, CIPD Knowledge Exchange Manager, reviews research examining how strategies around agile working were utilised within the NHS and distils the lessons for HR professionals, line managers and organisations

How employers can organise their workforce to optimise productivity

We summarise research examining how the way workers are matched to jobs can have important implications for current and future productivity for their organisations

Using redeployments to retain and strengthen knowledge

Research examines how organisations can use redeployments to properly manage and grow knowledge sharing across their business and wider networks

Is office space essential for productive work?

Evaluating the pros and cons of working in shared office spaces, and how they impact on productivity