Maru HR, founded by recruiter Hannah Waddington, is a partner of established networking platform The HR World, also a TIMESTWO enterprise, which focuses on problem solving around topical issues for senior HR professionals.

The team at TIMESTWO and Maru will be conducting a series of investigations into core issues for HR as a result of the pandemic and also seek to provide “disruptive market thinking around pricing and offer”, a TIMESTWO statement said.

The statement went on to say that Maru aims to be able to bring about “real change in the HR space both in an immediate way and for the long term”.

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