Human Capital and Resourcing

Effective business in a globalised world often requires an understanding of the values that are hallmarks of cultural differences.

Flexible work arrangements are creating new challenges for businesses looking to balance growth needs while attracting, retaining and developing the best talent.

Experts at Baker Tilly have hailed the EU’s new gender diversity mandates as a major milestone for equality but warn there is still a long way to go for genuine balance at the executive level.

Ambitions are soaring for the UK’s pharma. life science and biotech industry on the back of record investment but can it be sustained?

Experts from Baker Tilly have welcomed new diversity quotas for UK companies, but warn there are still major challenges for firms to meet them.

Bringing production closer to home is emerging as a solution for many major companies headquartered in Western Europe, but what are the costs of doing business?

As employees continue to embrace working from outside of the office, it is becoming increasingly challenging to ensure workers are paid appropriately.

If anger over vaccine mandates, lockdowns and other restrictions boils over into the office, what strategies should be in place to handle the situation?

Employee or contractor? The status of workers is literally a taxing question. What do potential investors need to consider in their due diligence?

Spain has taken the global lead in legislating that delivery riders are employees of the platforms they work with, not independent contractors.

For companies returning to ‘normal’ operations, helping bereaved and traumatised employees readjust becomes the next great challenge presented by the pandemic.

Businesses hope a COVID-19 vaccine will fast-track a return to normal but legal questions remain over insisting employees are immunized.

What does the second lockdown mean for business?

The more things change, the less the word change has meaning. Mindsets must be geared to evolution, writes Donal Laverty.

In the GFC, boards turned to the CFO to help navigate turbulent times. During Covid-19, though, it’s the HR team in the spotlight.

COVID-19 is making many companies change the way they work, but for companies with employees working cross-border, these changes may have implications in relation to tax and social security obligations.

Baker Tilly Zimbabwe continues to build its local network with addition of HR consulting firm, LoriMak Africa.

The lessons learned from working remotely — and the positive spin-offs of lockdowns — should not be lost.