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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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16/04/2026 Spirit Energy staff told Aberdeen office faces closure with 100 jobs at risk

16/04/2026 More retirees turn to flexible jobs to stay afloat, survey says

16/04/2026 Financial services gender pay gap widens by more than 25% | Portfolio Adviser

16/04/2026 More men in senior roles leads to increase in Slough Council pay gap

16/04/2026 RMT members in Royal Fleet Auxiliary to go on strike

16/04/2026 London Met Strike Action - Workers Revolutionary Party

16/04/2026 Dartford bin workers vote for strike action

16/04/2026 Building an AI profession for everyone: diversity at the heart of the UK’s tech future

16/04/2026 Pay gap reporting: Extra measures

16/04/2026 Average marketing salaries dip in 2026

16/04/2026 Trade unions demand government delivers ‘biggest wave of insourcing’ in response to Capita scandal

16/04/2026 Uber must help UK drivers with fuel crisis

16/04/2026 Heysham Port owner set to provide free prostate cancer tests for all male staff

16/04/2026 UK economy beat expectations to grow by 0.5% in February

16/04/2026 Historic Royal Palaces accused of 'towering insult' over below-inflation pay offer

16/04/2026 ‘Too many women have been silenced by rogue employers using NDAs’

16/04/2026 Multiple UK car companies collapse into administration with jobs lost

16/04/2026 Teesside health trusts set to cut 600 roles by 2028

16/04/2026 University of Gloucestershire staff strike over pay dispute

16/04/2026 Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs

16/04/2026 BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in biggest downsize in 15 years

16/04/2026 English councils need to hire 1,400 more educational psychologists, says report

16/04/2026 Franco Manca to shut 16 restaurants as costs bite UK dining sector - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

15/04/2026 Most teachers working almost an extra day a week | Tes

15/04/2026 More than a third of people ‘fail to ask about pension when moving jobs’

15/04/2026 ‘Unacceptable’ that thousands of practice nurses are ‘left waiting’ for pay rise

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15/04/2026 Half of women in tech leave due to a lack of belonging - HR Magazine

15/04/2026 Sainsbury’s reports 6.6% mean gender pay gap

15/04/2026 Oxbridge grads dominate top pay for trainee barristers, survey shows

15/04/2026 An 'obscene' advert has appeared at Bristol Airport and we should all be worried

15/04/2026 Staff at Goldsmiths art college plan industrial action ahead of redundancies

15/04/2026 Driverless Tube trains given red signal - but RMT's four-day Tube strike remains on

15/04/2026 ONS relents on individual targets after long stand-off

15/04/2026 Up to 250,000 women protected from ill-fitting PPE

15/04/2026 More bus driver strikes planned at east London depot

15/04/2026 Unite secure inflation beating pay rise for workers at dairy company Saputo

15/04/2026 International NHS staff don’t feel safe or welcome and want to quit the UK, says UNISON - UNISON National

15/04/2026 UK migrant workforce grew strongly last year despite weaker hiring

15/04/2026 Fix to critical UK jobs data faces further delays

15/04/2026 Record number of council staff earning over £100k

15/04/2026 EO Charging enters administration

15/04/2026 UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies, IMF says

15/04/2026 Industry in crisis: Landmark study reveals majority of actors earn below minimum wage

15/04/2026 City museum and art gallery to close due to industrial action

15/04/2026 Morrisons plans to cut 200 jobs at Bradford head office

14/04/2026 Swindon hospital responds to warning of 21,000 job losses across NHS

14/04/2026 Unions start the clock on binding college pay reform

14/04/2026 University of Bristol staff begin three-day strike over pay - UNISON South West

14/04/2026 The country would be ‘breaking’ under striking doctors’ demands – Streeting

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