Welcome to your HRD Connect daily update!

Is workplace mental health at tipping point?

Over the past few years, employee wellbeing has risen up the corporate agenda in the UK and is now one of the most topical issues facing businesses. Wellbeing is in the spotlight and is the hot topic at work, at home and in the media, but what are the facts?

Salary Finance to launch in the US after raising $20m

FinTech financial wellness employment benefit platform, Salary Finance has announced a $20m Series B investment led by the UK’s leading digital venture builder Blenheim Chalcot and the distinguished Legal & General Group. Read more about the launch below.

RBS to close 54 branches resulting in 258 job loses

RBS is preparing to close 54 branches in England and Wales, putting 258 staff out of work. Find out more below.

Are you coming to next year’s gathering of the Who’s Who in the HR industry?

In today’s diverse and complex business environment we understand the challenges facing the business leaders of today. If you’re wondering how to create a profitable organisation whilst ensuring the wellbeing of your employees then we can help put you in front of the visionaries that have done exactly that.

We only assemble the best of the best – speakers confirmed for 2019 come from a variety of companies leading the way to include Virgin Money, HSBC, Sodexo, Sky, Thinkers 50, Bersin, Cisco, ThermoFischer Scientific and many more.

Book here now, super early bird bookings end this Friday.

HR’s Future Leaders 2018

Are you a rising star in HR? Or do you know someone who is going to be a future leader?

HRD Connect’s Future Leaders in HR is open for your entries!

If you are, or you know someone who is going to be, the next big innovator within HR then please complete the submission form below to enter and be considered for our line-up of HR’s rising stars and emerging leaders.

To qualify as a future leader you must… 

  • Showcase specific examples of leading through crisis and unpredictability
  • Detail initiatives you have personally implemented that have improved the company’s culture – proving this by sharing tangible data and results
  • Specialising in a specific area of HR (e.g. diversity & inclusion, mental health, employee engagement), explaining how this particular part of the HR agenda is flourishing and what your future plans in your chosen area are
  • If you are a manager nominating someone, please be mindful of all the above points

Register your nomination below.

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I hope you enjoy the features.

Best wishes,

Emily Sexton-Brown,
Editor, HRD Connect