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The Acas Podcast

The Acas Podcast

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We're Acas, the workplace experts. We help employers and employees by providing information, advice, training, conciliation and other services that prevent or resolve workplace problems, most of it free. If you want to get the most up to date advice on the workplace and employment law, this is the podcast for you.

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Episodes
  • How employee voice improves engagement
    Oct 6 2025

    In the latest episode of the Acas podcast, we talk to Susan Reilly and Emma Hughes from the Phoenix Group about setting up an employee forum.

    They tell us why this method of hearing employee voice works for them, and how it has supported the organisation through change.


    The conversation also covers:


    • How employee forum relationships differ from HR and trade unions
    • Forum structure
    • What the forum covers
    • Forum governance



    Host:

    • Terry Duffy - Strategic Lead, Growth Partnership, Acas

    Guests:

    • Susan Reilly - Head of Phoenix Employee Representation Forum
    • Emma Hughes - Communication and Engagement Consultant, Phoenix Employee Representation Forum


    For more information about staff forums please visit our advice page: Using workplace forums to discuss important matters at work.

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    17 mins
  • Informal conversations – the key to reducing workplace conflict?
    Jul 11 2025

    In this episode of the Acas Podcast, Terry Duffy (Strategic Lead, Acas) sits down with Professor Richard Saundry (Principle Research Fellow, University of Westminster) to discuss the benefits of upskilling line manages and giving them the confidence to address conflict at the earliest possible stage with an informal conversation.


    This is a must listen for anyone with line management responsibilities, HR practitioners and anyone with an interest in good workplace relations.


    Further reading: Acas blog: Skilled Managers Productive Workplaces - Translating research into workplace practice that works


    Training: Conflict management skills online course

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    20 mins
  • Understanding neurodiversity in the workplace
    Mar 25 2025

    In this episode of the Acas Podcast, we’re joined by guest speakers, Professor Almuth McDowall, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University, and Jodie Hill, Managing Partner and founder of Thrive Law, for a deep dive discussion on neurodiversity in the workplace.

    The conversation covers:

    · What does it mean to be ‘neuro inclusive’?

    · What the latest research tells us

    · What workplaces can do to be more inclusive of neurodivergent individuals

    · The role of line managers

    · What small businesses can do

    · Managing conflict, and much more…

    Presenter:

    · Ruhel Ahmed - Senior Policy Adviser, Acas

    Guidance: https://www.acas.org.uk/neurodiversity-at-work

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    33 mins
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