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Organisational design challenges are some of the most frequent issues presented to us by our clients. When done well, good organisational design can be a key enabler for successful delivery of strategic goals and business plans, but when done badly (or neglected), it can be one of the worst hindrances to strong business performance.

‘Sure it’s Christmas’ will no doubt be a frequently heard phrase over the next couple of weeks as the traditional season for over-indulgence ramps up. As we know, people have faced a massive cost of living crisis over the past 18 months so the question is what shape the consumer is in and will the tills ring?

There are at least five generations among today’s workforce, the silent generation, baby boomers, generation-x, millennials and generation-z, each bringing different perspectives and expectations to the workplace. The current challenge is for organisations to create a work environment that appeals to all five generations.

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 makes a number of modifications to company law, with the aim of enhancing corporate transparency and reducing economic crime.

Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s and 80s, I was convinced that by the year 2020, we’d all be travelling around by flying cars or hoverboards and have a host of robot servants looking after us.

Healthy Place To Work supports organisations to deliver sustainable high performance, through a dedication to the health of a workforce and within the workplace

Ahead of this year’s Autumn Statement, the Chancellor noted that tax cuts will be ‘virtually impossible’ given the current state of the UK economy and the country’s current debt levels.

The Trader Support Service, an initiative established by HMRC to aid and counsel businesses engaged in the transportation of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has been prolonged until December 2024.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) describes performance management simply as “the attempt to maximise the value that employees create”, helping to maintain and improve the performance of staff to align with organisational objectives.

The concept of a new suite of standards for the UK and Ireland, aligning with international financial reporting standards, was first conceived in 2002

With the headline rate of CT in the UK now double that of our neighbours in the Republic, HMRC’s risk profiling is likely to result in increasing focus on NI businesses operating across the border and further afield.

Generation Z, colloquially known as zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as the starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.

On 27 February the UK and EU agreed the Windsor Framework (Framework) and these arrangements were adopted by the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee on 24 March.

Economics was afforded a place in the sun this past week as Ireland’s economic superstar, David McWilliams, delivered a keynote address at the IntertradeIreland Conference. I wasn’t able to be there as I had headed south to present the latest findings from the Dublin Economic Monitor that we in Grant Thornton produce on behalf of the four Dublin councils.

What would Labour do?

What will be hot in L&D going into the future? – This is the one obligatory question posed every year by Donald H. Taylor in the annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the survey and it also appears to mark a transitional year for learning and development worldwide.