Flexible Working Requests Get a Reasonableness Test, and Records Will Carry the Weight
Refusing flexible working requests will need a written, reasoned file from autumn 2027, and the Acas consultation on the code is open until 17 December.
4–7 minutesAI is starting to redraw the org chart: four companies changing how work gets done
Within three days, HENNGE launched a company with no dedicated employees, BMW set out plans for 20% leaner management structures, Millennium expanded personalised AI twins and Whitbread described AI as its “third workforce”. Together, they offer a glimpse of what happens when AI moves from being a tool inside a job to becoming part of the organisation itself.
4–7 minutesLeaders Say AI Is Saving Time. Workers Are Less Convinced.
Vertage research finds 71% of leaders say AI adoption has increased capacity, against 43% of workers. What HR should ask about the time AI frees up.
2–3 minutesAI and Labour Relations: Employers Expect Organising, Few Feel Ready
Only 9% of employers feel very prepared for AI and labour relations, yet 87% expect unions to use AI fears to organise, a Littler survey finds.
3–5 minutesForget the Four-Day Week. What Happens When AI Does a Third of Your Job?
At Employee Benefits Live 2026, conversations about AI, fair pay, childcare and employee wellbeing led me to a question for HR and reward leaders: if AI frees up 12 hours of someone’s working week, does that time belong to the employer or the employee?
5–7 minutesThe AI jobs story may be 11 million career changes, not 11 million lost jobs
McKinsey models more job creation than automation-driven job losses in the US by 2035. The harder problem is movement: roughly 11 million workers may need to switch occupations, while cross-group career moves would need to happen at 3.6 times the historical rate.
3–4 minutesCandidates are asking AI about your workplace. Is the answer true?
SetpointHQ founder Andy Pirie on how candidates now use AI assistants to judge employers, and the one-hour audit HR leaders can run to check the answers are true.
5–8 minutesMeta AI Adoption Revealed: Behind the curtain at Meta, 3 ways AI is already changing work
Meta AI adoption has gone from encouragement to expectation in a year. The company has reorganised thousands of jobs around AI and pushed employees to become AI-native. It has started testing an autonomous agent called Hatch. And its AI chief, Alexandr Wang, has just moved everyone’s internal conversations from Google Chat to Slack.
4–6 minutesWhat Happens When Recruitment Stops Parsing CVs and Starts Asking AI?
The PDF CV was built for an era when recruitment software needed one predictable file. Large language models can understand a career across several sources, which means the document is losing its claim to be the centre of hiring. By Javier Martínez, founder and CEO of Self A PDF is excellent at preserving the layout…
4–5 minutesJob architecture in the ai era: loveholidays’ head of engineering says releasing code is no longer an engineering job.
Dmitri Lerko is head of engineering at loveholidays. For the past year he has watched people who are not engineers release code to a website that sells holidays to millions. Product managers. Designers. People from the commercial team. “Everybody is a builder,” Lerko says. “Making changes to our applications, infrastructure, and deploying code is no…
4–6 minutesBEYOND salary: five ways to make Total Reward Month count
By Esther Smith Peter Stack wanted Urenco to be a destination company. One way its reward team supported that ambition was remarkably simple: show employees what they were actually getting. Its total reward statements (UK) bring together base pay, bonus, healthcare, life cover and, importantly, an employer pension contribution of 16%. Stack, Urenco’s Group Head…
6–8 minutesEmotion Recognition at Work Is Now Illegal in the EU. The Rest of the World Is Still Deciding
Emotion recognition at work is banned under EU law. Here’s the test HR leaders everywhere can use before any monitoring tool goes live.
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