Coffee Break - Sit back and soak up the week's best HR news, features & videos

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I see a lot of great articles, blog posts & videos during the week and rather than just retweeting them or posting them in our LinkedIn group, I thought I'd round up the most interesting ones for you here too - aren't I nice?

Feel free to submit any other bits and pieces you've enjoyed in the comments below.

I'll try to make this a weekly feature, so keep an eye out!

Fix HR

- A Meetings Manifesto - Medium

- When everyone knows how much everyone else is being paid - The Atlantic

- The US needs paid maternity leave, for the sake of its future - TED Talks

- Older women are being forced out of the workforce - HBR

Your People

- Seven steps to avoid a redundancy headache - BusinessZone

- Why organisations should embrace healthy rebellion - The Leadership Advisor

- The myth of A-Players - Talentism

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Innovation

- Video has never been so important for internal comms - Headlines

- Four trends driving the future of recruitment - Mervyn Dinnen

- For companies like Buffer and Zingerman's, is transparency good for business? - Inc

Five minute break...

Here's one of my favourite episodes of 99% Invisible, a great podcast about design, objects, history & architecture.

This episode is about micro nations, particularly the excellent story of one very close to UK shores - The Principality of Sealand. Nothing to do with work or HR, but interesting nevertheless, and it gives you some handy trivia to talk about in the office kitchen!

From the sea, freedom - 99% Invisible

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