Should salary bands be flexible?

I honestly couldn’t believe what I was reading in the paper last week. QuitTok. Apparently this is a thing. No. I mean it. Employees video themselves resigning, normally over Teams or Zoom, and then upload it as content on their TikTok feeds. According to TikTok, these resignation videos have had over 102m views. Has the […]

It’s an important question. In fact, is there ever a good time to move? I think the answer is yes. And that time is when we are noticeably coming out of a downturn and the green shoots are beginning to show. When the climate is not back to boom times but you can see it’s […]

April 6th is a big day for employment law. Anyone employed after this date has the right to request flexible working immediately upon joining a company. Whereas those employed before that date need to be employed for 26 weeks before requesting any changes. Apparently under the new rules, it will no longer be the employee’s […]

I believe if a salary band is too rigid, employers risk missing out on the best people. This week we secured an offer for an applicant £40,000 over their salary band. I accept this is a big number over the agreed scale but in this case, the client has definitely made the right long term […]