These days though the Acas conciliator will not emerge from the dispute with a large box of assort! soap to distribute amongst their colleagues, as I once did.

When I join! Acas in 1993 The future of Acas

We were a much smaller organisation, and we have grown in parallel . With the increase in individual job function email database  employment rights. Collective disputes are fewer now, but as we all saw in the very recent past they can . Do surge up. The public sector disputes of 2022 to 2023 were a strong reminder of that.  It was a professionally challenging time for me and a privilege to be influencing in those spaces.

I leave Acas as an organisation doing brilliant work to shape the future of  be numbers employment relations. Our next five-year strategy will be launch! later in the year, focusing on preventing, managing and resolving disputes, and reminding us how Acas is critical to supporting good employment relations.

Colleagues will be sharing our policy thinking around the future of workplace relations in Britain at the how to avoid them and not waste your budget?  upcoming resetting workplace relations conference 2025. We will be join! by some of the biggest names in employment relations and business success to look at the challenges and opportunities of the next period, and how we can together tackle them. I hope you can make it.

Working for Acas

Supporting its purpose, has been the pleasure and privilege of my life. I’m grateful for all I have seen and done and for the fantastic people that I have met along the way. I plan to keep in touch as I start my next chapter, and I’d love to hear your reflections of employment relations over the past 32 years. In the meantime, I’ll be taking a short break in April and then look forward to a marginally slower pace of life. Marginally.