Stay up to date on the latest advice and trends in management, with the Peakon roundup of the week’s most useful content.

Stay up to date on the latest advice and trends in management, with the Peakon roundup of the week’s most useful content.

Over the next few months we’ll be at the leading events on people analytics and HR tech – sharing our approach to data-driven management, meeting new companies, along with analysts and academics. Here’s where you can find us – get in touch if you’re in the same spot, we’d love to meet you there!

Is anyone really happy with the name Human Resources? After years of weird and wonderful suggestions as alternatives, does Employee Experience finally fit the bill, and better describe the department’s expanded role.

How employees judge whether they’re fairly paid is actually a broader topic than most would immediately assume, or would probably allude to when talking about their own pay. Organisational Justice Theory gives us an explanation, with the three principles that fair pay adheres to.

Despite what Yahoo might have you believe, more companies are steering towards remote employment as a growing number of us value flexibility.

To reach our most productive and creative selves, we need solid three or four hour stretches of uninterrupted work. Yet for most us, this sounds like an unimaginable luxury. Our days are broken into short stints, in which we never get up to full speed.

The need for growth features prominently in almost every theory on motivation and engagement. Yet, research from Monika Hamori, Jie Cao and Burak Koyuncu into the career priorities of young high-achievers, illustrates a serious gap between their career development expectations, and those of their employers.

The best business books go beyond anecdotes. They challenge us and equip us with new mental frameworks to make better day-to-day decisions.

Today marks the end of business as usual – the day when we can proudly launch Peakon to the world. Every business can utilize real-time people analytics by signing up at peakon.com – enabling them to truly understand what’s motivating their employees and where they’re being held back from reaching their potential.

Backing comes from Idinvest Partners, and previous investor Sunstone Capital. The newly-raised capital will be used to further market the service in Europe and the U.S., in addition to product development out of Peakon’s HQ in Copenhagen, and expanding sales and operations in London.

Freedom of speech is well understood to be a core part of any democratic society. But at work, it can often be a different story. We investigate the false dichotomy of upward dissent vs. efficiency.