If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. One of the themes I keep coming back to in this Digest is how easily we can misread what is happening inside an organisation. We see a behaviour or an outcome and try to explain it before we have understood the conditions around it. This week’s stories come from very different places but they all challenge this instinct, asking us to look beneath the surface and consider what your...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. Today's Digest is a 5 minute-read Young people are being told to become job-ready at the same moment entry-level jobs are shrinking and AI is changing the work through which beginners once learned. Employers are also looking further into candidates’ digital lives, raising difficult questions about how much of a young person’s online history should shape their future. This edition...
3 months ago • 8 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each fortnight, you can subscribe here. Today's Digest is a 4 minute-read Purpose is having a difficult moment. Companies that once made bold social commitments are retreating as performance pressure, political hostility and employee scepticism expose the gap between what organisations say and how they operate. This Digest asks what remains when the slogans fall away. Katie Jacobs examines whether organisational...
3 months ago • 7 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. Today's Digest is a 4 minute-read Welcome back. This week’s Digest looks a little different. I’ve tightened the structure to make the main evidence, interpretation and practical questions easier to find, while keeping the depth and nuance that regular readers expect. I’m keen to know whether you prefer this approach, so please do reply and tell me what works – or what doesn’t....
4 months ago • 6 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. 4-minute read This Digest comes a little earlier than usual as I’ll be at the CIPD Festival of Work next week. We’ll be back to our normal fortnightly rhythm on 24 June. This week I look at how AI and change are moving deeper into everyday work, especially frontline work, yet many organisations are still treating both as rollouts rather than human experiences. New BCG data shows...
4 months ago • 6 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. 4-minute read This week’s Digest is essentially about work design. Whether we are talking about AI centres of excellence, the future of middle management or Dave Ulrich’s argument that the Age of AI needs the Age of HR, the common thread is clear: technology may be moving fast but the real test for organisations is how work, roles, skills and human capability are being redesigned...
5 months ago • 6 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. This week’s Digest looks at what happens when technology moves faster than the people systems around it. In recruitment AI and automated screening are changing who gets seen, who gets rejected and who owns the decision. In background screening the same pressure is raising sharper questions about evidence, verification and human judgement. And in digital skills new WTW data shows...
5 months ago • 7 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. AI investment is accelerating. Job cuts are following. At the same time the expectations on HR are shifting quickly, from how work gets done to who gets to lead it. This week’s Digest brings those threads together. A practical AI case study grounded in employee confidence, a challenge to rethink collaboration in hybrid work and new global data on who is stepping into the top HR...
6 months ago • 8 min read
If this was forwarded to you and you’d like to receive The People Space Digest each week, you can subscribe here. Hello and welcome to this week's Digest. I’m going deeper this week on one of the most talked-about issues in work right now: whether AI is really going to take jobs. There is no shortage of bold claims on this subject but far less attention paid to what the evidence actually shows. So in this edition I unpack some of the latest data and research to look at where pressure is...
7 months ago • 6 min read