Why esphr?
All this can lead to an expensive, fragmented and inefficient way of working.
Busy HR professionals required a solution that brought specialist employment law expertise and ER technology together, so they could spend less time firefighting operational HR headaches and more time prioritising projects to drive meaningful change.
Introducing esphr
A new-model employment law firm and ER technology business, we provide integrated support services including a dedicated legal advisory team, online HR resources, learning and development tools and access to market-leading ER case management software – all for a fixed annual subscription fee.
Today, we are one of the UK’s first Alternative Business Structure (ABS) employment law firms built around people, processes and technology and have assisted over 700 UK businesses.
The story so far...
2003
esphr is founded in Albury, Surrey, by Pete Byrne.
MAY
MAY
2004
With 50 customers on our books, and another two employees added, our modern business model and swift growth starts to get noticed more within the HR marketplace.
JANUARY
2005
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2013
To mark our 10th anniversary, our whole team is taken on an all-inclusive trip to Marrakesh!
OCTOBER
2014
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2021
This month we launched our latest free guide: ‘7 employee relations (ER) priorities an HR leader must focus on in their first 90 days’. This downloadable document includes an array of industry insight and guest contributions from esteemed HR professionals, for HR professionals moving into a new leadership role.
NOVEMBER
We teamed up with our customer Epping Forest District Council for a detailed case study about its People Team’s success. Read how esphr helped improve its in-house ER capability and prioritise employee welfare via rich data and legal expertise.
DECEMBER
2022
CEO Pete Byrne put pen to paper to draft a thought leadership feature for theHRDirector. For this particular piece, Pete writes about the importance of having a data-driven culture, and why he believed it would be one of the biggest HR trends in 2022.
JANUARY
At the end of February, we said a fond farewell to CEO and founder Pete Byrne, following 17 years at the helm. Following the successful acquisition by Marlowe plc, Pete knew the time was right to step aside and hand the reins over to the next-generation management team at WorkNest.
FEBRUARY
Just before Pete exited, he left with the news that he had been shortlisted in the Legal Week Innovation Awards in the ‘Lifetime Contributor to Innovation (Supplier)’ category. Not long after, esphr was also announced as a Modern Law Awards finalist in the ‘Client Care’ section following our long-established work with Entain.
MARCH
The Employment Services Partnership Ltd (ESP)
Offering online HR resources, a market-leading ER case management system (MyHRCases) and elearning support services
Cater Leydon Millard
An SRA regulated law firm offering employment law advice and training, as well as employment tribunal case management services. All of esphr’s services are provided by the lawyers at Cater Leydon Millard.
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