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Key takeaway points

  • Use honest, well-designed listening mechanisms to understand how cost-of-living pressures are affecting colleagues.
  • Prioritise the needs of lower-paid colleagues when shaping people policies and interventions.
  • Address financial wellbeing through pay, hours, pensions, savings, and long-term security — not salary alone.
  • Consider practical, preventative support - not just crisis responses - by putting systems in place that prevent financial harm and reduce reliance on emergency support.
  • Embed care, fairness, and lived experience into leadership and culture, recognising the link to performance.
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    What does it take to create a thriving organisation? A look inside Thrive 2026

    In this blog, Lisa Hogan, Membership Development and Communications Manager at the CIPD in Ireland, looks at some of the most important questions organisations should be asking about performance, productivity, trust and wellbeing. She explains how the themes explored at the CIPD in Ireland Thrive Conference can help organisations build the conditions for lasting success.

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    Working Lives Scotland

    Dedicated analysis of job quality and its impact on organisations and working lives in Scotland