Flexible Working Day (21 June) celebrates the role flexible working plays in creating fairer, more inclusive workplaces. While flexible working offers clear benefits, it also creates new challenges. Maintaining trust, collaboration and culture when people are no longer together every day can be difficult. This article explores what organisations need to do to make flexible working successful for both people and performance.

We’re delighted to share that MatchFit has been shortlisted as a finalist in the CIPD People Management Awards 2026 in the category of Best HR/L&D & OD Supplier.

In this article, Bradley Honnor explores why workplace stress continues to rise despite growing investment in wellbeing initiatives. He argues that the root cause is often culture, not individuals, and outlines why organisations must focus on leadership, behaviours and the working environment to create meaningful, lasting change.

Many organisations are quietly asking: if Diversity, Equity and Inclusion remains a priority, why are so many initiatives struggling to translate into lived experience? Drawing on leadership insight and behavioural psychology, Bradley Honnor examines whether culture is replacing DEI — or whether it is the critical missing link that determines whether inclusion truly takes hold.

Leadership departures create immediate questions about strategy, stability and succession. Yet the greatest risk is often inside the organisation. Bradley Honnor explores the psychological, cultural and performance impact when a CEO leaves, and why trust, communication and leadership alignment determine whether organisations stabilise quickly or drift into uncertainty.

The New Employment Rights Bill marks a major shift in the UK workplace — but its real impact goes far beyond compliance. For leaders and teams, it represents a cultural turning point in how fairness, trust and performance are experienced day to day. This piece explores what the Bill means in practice, why team-level leadership matters most, and how organisations can turn legal change into a catalyst for stronger alignment, engagement and sustainable performance.