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As we near the end of this year, our ’12 Days of Christmas’-style countdown rounds up key stories from each month of 2024.
In December we announced the winners of our HR Excellence Awards, the Office for National Statistics delayed the release of its new labour force survey, and we exclusively interviewed Royal Mail’s head of future talent.
HR Excellence Awards 2024
This year’s HR Excellence Awards took place on 3 December 2024, uniting people leaders from across the profession to celebrate 29 winners.
The HR magazine team welcomed a bedazzled guestlist to The Brewery in London for the awards ceremony, a lavish three-course dinner and a lively afterparty that featured a live band followed by a DJ.
We published the list of winners in full.
ONS delays new labour force survey
The Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s launch of an improved labour force survey (LFS) will be delayed to 2027.
The ONS team has been working on a transformed labour force survey (TLFS) to replace the current LFS, which has been criticised for being unreliable.
The statistics institute has been trialling shorter questionnaires to try and keep more respondents engaged. In October 2023 the Financial Times reported that the response rate to the current LFS stood at 14.6%, down from about 40% in 2019.
This will “complicate decision making”, Charlotte Roberts, chief people officer for recruitment business The IN Group, commented.
Exclusive interview: Royal Mail’s head of future talent
Charlotte Wakeham, head of future talent at Royal Mail, told HR magazine what worries and excites her about the future of HR.
Charlotte Wakeham is rewriting Royal Mail’s early careers and apprenticeship strategy, revitalising its graduate programme and looking to the future of skills and talent in the company. But she didn’t start out this way.
“I joined Royal Mail straight out of college as a ‘postie’, out on delivery for my local office,” says Wakeham. “After 18 months, I had the opportunity to cover a period of maternity leave as an HR coordinator. I have never looked back.”
Best of HR magazine in December 2024:
HR predictions for 2025: AI, flexible work and productivity
Move on up: Making internal mobility work
GMB staff to complain to EHRC about institutional sexism
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