Three claims run through every return-to-office argument. We checked them against what 116 UK insurers reported about productivity, wellbeing and company culture under each working policy.

Cultural fit versus technical skills is not a debate to win, it is a decision to make per role. When to hire the skills, when to hire the attitude and train, and how to score both without hiring clones.

Everyone says they love to learn. Here is how to find the candidates who actually do: evidence of past learning, a live exercise, aptitude tests used properly, and a probation plan that tells you if it worked.

The recruitment side of our working policy survey: where applications fall, where offers get turned down, which policies lose staff, and how to write the policy into a job advert.

We surveyed 116 UK insurance companies with Insurance Times and Gerrard White on their hybrid and flexible working policies. Here are the findings, with the figures.

Permanent hiring through RPO, contractors through an MSP, one provider, one set of numbers. What a total talent solution is, what it changes, when it makes sense and what to ask before you buy one.

Take a listen to a thought-proving 15 minute discussion between recruitment experts and neurodiversity advocates Colin Minto and Anthony Butler on how embracing neurodiversity can transform your workplace and recruitment strategies. You’ll find out how inclusive hiring practices empower individuals with diverse cognitive abilities and discover ways to deliver a more innovative and empathetic workplace. 

If one in six adults is neurodivergent, a standard recruitment process is quietly rejecting a lot of good people. What the evidence says goes wrong, and the practical changes that put it right.

Written in February 2024 while HMRC was consulting on the draft rules, with a September 2026 update: the set-off mechanism came into force on 6 April 2024. What it does and who it covers.

Written in November 2023 when the offset was announced, with a September 2026 update on what came into force, and two corrections to the National Insurance details.

Our quality management system was first certified to ISO 9001 in 2023 and recertified after a full audit in June 2026. What that means for the clients we run hiring for.

A CV measures how well someone writes a CV. Skills-based hiring measures whether they can do the job. What replaces the CV, how regulated employers keep their checks, and the roles where it works.

Pay, development and flexibility matter, and HR knows that. The part of retention nobody measures is the part decided before the start date. Here is what it is and how to fix it.

The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates from April 2026, the history since 2020, where the rates are heading, and what the annual rise does to hiring for entry-level roles. Updated every April.