Insights
Opinion
Opinion pieces are Sam Bramhall's analytical essays, arguments, and commentary on the issues that matter to organisations that take their people seriously. Each piece is written in Sam's own voice and represents his position on a specific question: how a particular law should be understood commercially, why a management orthodoxy is producing the wrong outcomes, or what the evidence actually suggests about a challenge that most advisory firms prefer to treat as more certain than it is.
AI and Workforce
Man On: Why Large Language Models Cannot Decompress What Language Was Always Hiding
Advisory
Lagging Ahead: Why Your Leading Indicators Are Trailing the Market
Employment Law
TUPE Is Not an HR Process. It's a Commercial Negotiation You're Letting HR Handle Alone.
Leadership and Governance
You Don't Need a New HRD. You Need to Understand Why the Last One Failed.
Employment Law
The Redundancy Process Most Businesses Run Would Not Survive Fifteen Minutes of Cross-Examination.
AI and Workforce
AI Can Work Inside a Box. Marketing Mostly Happens Outside It.
Leadership and Governance
That Performance Problem is a Management Problem You're Not Seeing.
Private Equity
The Number That Determines Whether Your Acquisition Was Worth Making
AI and Workforce
Capability Is Not Strategy: What AI Leaders Cannot Tell You About Your Workforce
Employment Law
The Six-Month Qualifying Period Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to Your Business. Here's Why.
Employment Law
Your Sick Pay Bill Just Changed. The Absence Problem It Reveals Was Already There.
Employment Law
The Employment Rights Act 2025 Is the Excuse You Needed to Finally Run Your Business Properly.
Advisory
You're Advertising for Talent the Same Way You Advertise for Customers. It Isn't Working for Either.
Advisory
Your Product Roadmap Is a Brilliant Solution to a Problem Your Customers Don't Have
Employment Law
The ERA 2025 Gave Unions the Keys. Nobody Asked Whether They Know How to Drive.
Private Equity
The Exit You're Preparing For Is Already Priced Against You
Complex HR
You're Managing Absence. You Should Be Managing What Absence Is Telling You.
Private Equity
Your P&L Will Never Show It But the Cost of Efficiency is Value
Complex HR
The Grievance You Just Received Is the Best Intelligence Your Business Will Get This Year.
Employment Law
Your Contracts Used to Work. They're Now a Liability for the Business You Are.
Complex HR
Your Disciplinary Process Isn't Protecting You. It's Building the Case Against You.
Private Equity
The People Due Diligence Gap: What the Data Room Will Never Tell You
Private Equity
The Market You Exited During the Downturn Is the Market You Cannot Afford to Re-Enter Now
Private Equity
Your First Hundred Days Are Already Over. You Just Haven't Realised It Yet.
Private Equity
You've Done the Financial Due Diligence. You Have No Idea What You've Bought.
Employment Law
The Cost of Getting Redundancy Wrong Just Doubled. Most Businesses Don't Know Why.
Employment Law
You're Paying Too Much for Your Settlement Agreements. Here's Why.
Advisory