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Our research covers pay, benefits, reward practice and HR policy. We provide HR professionals with information, data, analysis and tools to help them make intelligent reward decisions.

In 2014 we identified a gap in the market for independent research on pay and reward and IDR is committed to filling that gap. Since then, we have delivered work for a wide range of clients and have a steadily growing subscriber base.

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30/07/2026 Benefits on offer at Bath Building Society

30/07/2026 Outsourced workers to strike at TransPennine

30/07/2026 Staff at newest V&A site in London vote overwhelmingly for strike action

30/07/2026 Further strike action at Avanti West Coast

30/07/2026 Members share fears over MOD plans to scrap caretaker roles

30/07/2026 Gardeners at Royal Parks begin vote on strike action

30/07/2026 Politicians ‘disappointingly silent’ on planned job losses at Ulster University

30/07/2026 Thousands of new bins for Birmingham but silence over strike

30/07/2026 Women bearing the brunt of poverty as demands made on Holyrood - TFN

30/07/2026 Burnham pledges social care pay reform

30/07/2026 Great Yarmouth bin and street cleaning tourist season strikes announced

30/07/2026 PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations

30/07/2026 Powys County Council becomes accredited real living wage employer

30/07/2026 UK employers forecast 3% pay award in 2027

29/07/2026 Insecure, low-quality work a major driver of UK’s NEETs and inactivity crisis

29/07/2026 The UK's pay transparency plans need to work for small businesses too | Startups Magazine

29/07/2026 Do ‘cameras on’ policies help or hinder remote teams?

29/07/2026 Lloyd’s of London allows staff to work from home as heatwave hits the capital

29/07/2026 How should HR manage Gen Z ‘working to live’?

29/07/2026 59.3% of employers believe EV salary sacrifice schemes are important benefit

29/07/2026 Why women’s jobs in fashion are being impacted more by AI, and what to do about it

29/07/2026 Home Office pay – a PCS success story

29/07/2026 Council’s warning to Kimpton Clocktower hotel over union dispute - About Manchester

29/07/2026 Bus drivers suffering heat fatigue are a danger to our busy High Road but are not to blame - Chiswick Calendar News

29/07/2026 Pilgrim’s Food: Enniskillen workers to strike in pursuit of pay justice and paid breaks

29/07/2026 Education is not to blame for England’s Neet crisis

29/07/2026 How do living standards compare across generations? | Institute for Fiscal Studies

29/07/2026 Contract cleaning market to see a £200 million boost in 2026 - Report

29/07/2026 If you think your profession is dying, it could soon be gone

29/07/2026 Planned West Midlands train strikes this weekend called off after union talks

29/07/2026 Andy Burnham’s plans for technical education build on coalition’s UTC roots

29/07/2026 GSK to cut jobs amid £1.9bn cost-cutting plan and bid for faster drug development

29/07/2026 Young people ‘expected’ to engage with new work support, says McFadden

28/07/2026 Butlin's safety officers warn of strike ballot over pay and staffing concerns

28/07/2026 Asda pain mounts as sales slump and job cuts bite - Grocery Gazette - Latest Grocery Industry News

28/07/2026 Vodafone slashes 1,200 jobs across UK and rest of Europe in major cost-cutting drive

28/07/2026 Jobs lost across Labour’s ‘growth’ sectors in blow to Burnham

28/07/2026 Barclays increases bonus pool by nearly 30% as calls grow for UK bank tax

28/07/2026 Mishcon's NQ lawyer salary rises to £110k - Legal Cheek

28/07/2026 Urgent action demanded to end Cwm Taf Morgannwg health visitor strike - Herald.Wales

28/07/2026 NHS workers fear outsourcing may worsen staff shortages

28/07/2026 Training agreements: Court of Appeal delivers a warning for employers seeking to claw back costs - BDBF LLP

28/07/2026 Social care is main driver of councils' emergency funding requests

28/07/2026 66 jobs lost as Cradley Heath engineering firm goes into administration

28/07/2026 Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets

27/07/2026 'Insulting': BBC staff anger at 1% pay-rise offer as job cuts loom

27/07/2026 Further details released about East Midlands Railway strike action

27/07/2026 V&A workers hold ballot to strike over pay and heatwave conditions

27/07/2026 National Gallery security staff 'treated with absolute contempt'

27/07/2026 PCS fights devastating MOD plan to scrap military base caretaker posts

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