Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 53 (9th April 2021)
The rate of disruption will potentially accelerate as the implications from 2020 play out across the next several years. Here are nine predictions from the chief of research for Gartner’s HR practice.
Friday Reading Edition 42 (22nd January 2021)
Focuses on the important task of looking at the road ahead in order to support businesses in their strategic decision making – from the new cyber threats which will become more apparent in a world where digitisation has accelerated, to the need to redefine health and safety ‘at work’ in a world.
Friday Reading Edition 49 (12th March 2021)
This report sets out a roadmap for levelling up women and men, girls and boys in the immediate and longer term. Alongside proposals for policymakers, it also makes the case for the workplace to promote healthy and financial wellbeing, and it highlights a pivotal role for the financial services and pensions sectors to help customers better manage their ‘risks in life’ and to provide customer experiences contemplating gender differences in financial life journeys.
Friday Reading Edition 24 (4th September 2020)
Psychological safety – the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake - has been shown to be a key component of high performing teams. Building psychological safety in virtual teams takes effort and strategy that pays off in engagement, collegiality, productive dissent, and idea generation.
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Friday Reading Edition 24 (4th September 2020)
This paper provides a framework to enable a company to monitor and assess the return on its investments in its employees. It also provides guidance for how chief human resources officers, boards and policy-makers can mainstream this framework in order to shape a better approach to human capital.
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Employers will need to be sensitive to the challenges faced by their workers and will need to plan and organise their start-up to take into account human factors, which may predicate the potential for increased accidents and incidents.
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Friday Reading Edition 16 (10th July 2020)
This article from McKinsey discusses how post-pandemic recovery will depend on saving lives, sustaining livelihoods, and importantly supporting the quality of life too.
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Friday Reading Edition 21 (14th August 2020)
[Free to read upon providing contact details] Swiss Re’s annual SONAR report looks at the top emerging risks, including increased use of edge computing, vaping and e-cigarette addiction, and declining mental health among teenagers and young adults.
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Friday Reading Edition 58 (14th May 2021)
Employers could see increases in burnout and decreases in mental wellbeing due to employees’ working from home habits during lockdown, research by QBE revealed.
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Friday Reading Edition 6 (10th July 2020)
A best practice guide to protecting the mental health of the workforce. Employers have a valuable role to play in continuing to provide the psychological elements of control, community, challenge and commitment that we need to stay healthy. [free to download upon registration of details]
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