More than a quarter of the country is now hybrid working while 45% of professional services and nearly half of IT workers have the most flexibility 

In this week’s career moves, partner promotions and hires at Cooper Parry, Forvis Mazars, Mercer & Hole, RSM, JS, Prime, IFAC

Effective return to work policies need to be in place to support employees with workplace stress explains our CIPD HR-inform experts

Plans to extend statutory sick pay (SSP) from day one of sickness to all workers regardless of pay rate and hours worked are out for a brief four-week consultation

Partnership law experts Beth Hale and Liz Pearson of CM Murray examine how new worker rights and sexual harassment rules will affect members of limited liability partnerships

The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) has signed strategic partnerships with Croner-i and Clearview FX to further boost its member offering

Top five firm BDO has promoted 2,440 people, including 36 new partners across all its services lines and central operations

The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has announced Michael Steed and Lucy Cohen as president and vice-president, succeeding Kevin Bragg

In this week’s career moves, partner promotions and hires at EY, Blick Rothenberg, RSM, Bishop Fleming, Price Bailey, Crowe, Azets, Forvis Mazars, HSBC

Our Croner-i HR experts look at how to deal with employees who keep making grievances about silly things and whether each instance has to be investigated

Retired accountants share their views on the realities of their career experiences, what they would have done differently and their top tips on how to thrive in today’s profession in a survey for the Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA). Jonathan Barber, executive director of the IFA, assesses the findings

Civil servants will have to spend 60% of their time in the office or at business related meetings in a turnaround on government plans for default flexible working