Welcome to your HRD Connect update!

If you are in L&D, you’re probably starting to feel the pressure from your customers to move into the 21st century. Learners want more and more, job-hopping has been on the rise as they search for better job satisfaction, culture fit, and career progression. Regular contributor, Stephanie Morgan delves deeper.

Onboarding is an art form and needs to be conducted in a respectful and inclusive way throughout all companies’ HR departments and ingrained into the wider company culture. One of the top issues for CEOs globally is retaining key talent, and that all starts on day one with a well thought out onboarding process. We look into different onboarding techniques and take a look at companies who are absorbing good onboarding into their culture.

HRD Connect speaks to Asesh Sarkar, co-founder and chief executive of Salary Finance, about the role of fintech in reducing financial stress for low-income workers, and bringing greater financial inclusion to society as a whole.

Mental health is the most common reason for people to take time off work, costing the UK economy between £74 billion and £99 billion a year. Matt Liggins, director of wellbeing at Health@Work discusses.

As ever, join the conversation and tweet us at @HRDCommunity or email me at [email protected]. We’ve been at HRD Summit/Europe this week and we’re excited to share the highlights with you very soon!

I hope you enjoy the features.

Best wishes,

Emily Sexton-Brown,
Editor, HRD Connect