Val-halla

Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth has joined the HR Most Influential Hall of Fame. The BBC personnel boss has been in and around the top 5 of this completely-transparent league table for her five years with Auntie. She was "praised for her achievements on cost saving, restructuring and gender pay despite facing intense media scrutiny".

Spookily the awards are sponsored by LifeSight, a subsidiary of Willis Towers Watson, external advisers to the BBC in the Hughes-D'Aeth re-imagination of pay grades.

Hughes D’Aeth tells HR Magazine: "It's been a fantastic experience, and I hope that it [the BBC] is in a better place than it was when I joined. It's time that I spent a bit more time with my family. I'm sure I'll still be up to a lot of different things, but for me the focus is now to have some more balance. It's a real privilege and I'm thrilled."