Carl Quilliam

Mortgages: More people face repaying loans in retirement Two in five new mortgages have terms that will see homeowners still making payments in retirement.

New figures I’ve obtained from the Bank of England show a persistently high proportion of new mortgages are set to run past pension age - over 2 in 5 - even as mortgage rates start to fall. Big implications for the adequacy of pensions savings if this continues: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FOMO is not a strategy End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work

New edition of Just enough Internet just landed in inboxes. This one on how non-technical people actually appear to be using generative AI at work.

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Are you an ex political adviser with zero remaining Joie de Vivre? Let me know and I will add you to my starter pack

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The definition of madness Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again

New post just out:

"The definition of madness"

Why governments keep making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again.

And what they should be doing instead.

(£/free trial)

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Italian watchdog warns publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI, it said on Friday, citing concern over potential breaches of EU rules.

Licensing editorial content for training AI is a violation of the GDPR, according to the Italian watchdog.

"The digital archives of newspapers contain the stories of millions of people, with information, details and even extremely sensitive personal data"

Fuzzy job numbers need fixing Dodgy data misleads policymakers, businesses and investors

Fuzzy job numbers need fixing.

Good to see @financialtimes.com picking up on recent @resfoundation.bsky.social work on the scale of uncertainty surrounding UK labour market figures.

www.ft.com/content/4058...

Do former political advisers in local govt count?

First SoS resignation within 6 months of a new government isn’t that remarkable anymore but there’s some interesting politics in how quickly this has happened.

I think I’m probably one of the few people that quite enjoy civil service ‘timelines’ like this.

This feels like the right thing to do from an economic/policy perspective but risky from a political perspective given the narratives around the Budget.

HM Government says childcare support is expanding, have you checked what support your family may be entitled to? Visit ChildcareChoices.gov.uk - the photo shows two lively toddlers in a daycare setting.

We know the right childcare support is important for working parents. Government support for childcare is expanding, have you checked what support you may be entitled to?

To find out more about the support you could get visit ➡️ ChildcareChoices.gov.uk

#ChildcareChoices #HR

This is why the pace of AI development at the frontier isn't the point. It's the pace of the rest of the economy and its myriad processes that counts. And why, as the Economist argues, in terms of comparisons to the computer revolution, we're probably in the 1970s not the 1990s 5/5

"Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?"
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
is a nice analysis from The Economist - in particular, because it bolsters my assumption that AI will struggle to have the impact of the computer revolution...1/

Digital differences between men and women revealed Stark differences in the online lives of men and women in the UK are today revealed in Ofcom’s annual report into the nation’s digital habits.

Our latest report into the UK's digital habits reveals:

⏲️ Gen Z women spend over an hour longer online than Gen Z men.
📱Men are more avid users of online dating and Gen AI.
⚠️ Women and teenage girls are most concerned about online harm.

Read more: www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

Doesn’t look like they’ve got that kind of granularity in this poll. Maybe it needs some focus groups to thrash out the issues in more detail.

😅

One for @dds180.bsky.social

Important news 🇬🇧! We do sort of have a written constitution after all, or more accurately, a mapping of the writings that are constitutional. Well done the Commons Library team (library! Yes!)

CIPD | CIPD Welcomes 'Get Britain Working' Plans to Tackle Economic Inactivity and Boost Workforce Inclusion It also calls for a greater ambition from government to boost the profile of apprenticeships and build better links between employers and jobcentres

"We'll be engaging with our members in the people profession to inform this important review and ensure that those that are able to work, can find work that also works for them." Peter Cheese, CIPD

Read our full statement here: www.cipd.org/en/about/pre...

#HR #GetBritainWorking #Inclusion

📢New research! Our report for the Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives, supported by
@healthfoundation.bsky.social reveals that poor job quality threatens the health of the UK workforce with 1.7 million people reporting work-related ill health in the last year. Read: bit.ly/3CH4uYB 1/

Looking forward to seeing the full details of the white paper this week.

It’ll be interesting to see if/how links are drawn between this and other key government agendas on work, health and industrial strategy through a place based approach.

CIPD | HR People Pod Listen to episodes of the HR People Pod, CIPD’s new fortnightly podcast series offering expert insights on topical stories impacting the world of work.

In the last People Pod we covered

- the role of the profession in an external crisis
- whether discussion of politics at work should be encouraged/forbidden or something in the middle
- accountability for supply chains
- 'ghost jobs'

And someone has a plaque...

www.cipd.org/en/knowledge...

Reposting to read later.

Some interesting people have been sharing this report, which includes a look at algorithms and AI impacting low wage workers in the US.

Interested in anyone’s initial take on it.

Welcome to Bluesky!

Lovely to see so many excellent people from the #HR Twitter community on here.

If you're looking for HR and what we might call "people people" to follow, I've started compiling a starter pack of folks to follow:

MJCarty's HR and people people starter pack

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Infographic titled 'Top 10 Evidence-Based Tips for Building High-Performing Teams' by CIPD. 1 Match skills to roles 2 Focus on skills first 3 Build trust 4 Create a safe space 5 Encourage team bonding 6 Align on thinking 7 Promote open sharing 8 Know team strengths 9 Reflect as a team 10 Celebrate effort

Top-10 CIPD evidence-based tips for building high performing teams. 🚀 Would you make any additions to our list?

You can read our full report and more recommendations for practice here: www.cipd.org/en/knowledge... #HR #Teams

Focus on workplace skills and productivity from the CIPD. Text is circled for emphasis and the CIPD logo appears in top right corner.

Growth & productivity need a skilled, engaged workforce. And #HR is well placed to help plug skills gaps & drive engagement at work. Managers are also crucial, they motivate their teams to perform well. A virtuous circle - in theory! We're interested to hear your take on how to make this work? 1/2

Always great to see analyses like these coming out of the government’s data labs.

This kind of data sets up orgs to really understand their effectiveness and lends itself well to analysis of their economic impact - critical for funders, commissioners and the charity itself.

Do read Ben’s thread!

@sarahevehammond.bsky.social @carlquilliam.bsky.social @michael-a-ryan.bsky.social @ryangfrost.bsky.social you've been added to this starter pack. Please do share and tell us if we're missing anyone!

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Excited to be joining yet another social media network. Ecstatic even.

Hi everyone 👋