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How are the pressures on the NHS impacting staff?
Here is a photograph that I took and tweeted on 3rd January 2018, a day when 14 ambulances were queued up outside the Wrightington, Wigan...
Jan 2018
Increasing workplace productivity through employee involvement
In this article, Prof Stephen Wood outlines the important of employee involvement to increase productivity. His research on the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations...
Dec 2017
News in Brief November 2017
Draft Bill challenges gig economy self-employed The Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees has published a joint report and draft bill...
Nov 2017
Reviewing work-related ICT use outside of work hours – What do we know to date?
The internet and improvements in mobile technologies including smartphones have made work increasingly portable and accessible. This means that employees find it easy and often...
Nov 2017
Making fair and inclusive workplaces everyone’s business
The position of business is one that rightly attracts more scrutiny than it did a few decades ago. Like politicians, the Church and many of...
Nov 2017
Why it’s time to ditch 9 to 5
As technology, behaviours and culture evolves, so does the way we view our work. New futurology research reveals how organisations that introduce agile working substantially...
Oct 2017
News in Brief October 2017
Brexit could cost 75,000 finance jobs The Bank of England believes that up to 75,000 jobs could be lost from the UK’s financial services industry...
Oct 2017
Improving People Management in SMEs to Boost Productivity
When the latest set of productivity figures came out in October, they painted a depressingly familiar picture. The UK continues to seeing falling productivity, and...
Oct 2017
Sexual harassment in the workplace is far from being a new phenomenon
Sexual harassment in the workplace is far from being a new phenomenon. But with recent high profile allegations putting the issue at the top of...
Oct 2017
News in Brief September 2017
Uber seeks talks with Khan to renew licence Uber could make concessions to ensure its London operating licence is renewed, its chief in the capital...
Sep 2017
Dinosaur in the HR Room
This is not another horrid example of mixed metaphors but what sprung to mind when I read a recent contribution to the 100-Year Life website,...
Sep 2017
Why is the UK Failing to Promote Women to Senior Management Positions?
In January 2015, McKinsey published an article stating that companies in the top quartile in terms of ethnic diversity were 35% more likely to outperform...
Sep 2017
Employment Tribunal Fees found to be unlawful
Following UNISON’s legal challenge, the Supreme Court, last week, ruled that employment tribunal fees are unlawful because they price workers out of accessing justice and...
Jul 2017
Listening to the Voice of Agency Workers
In our recent research report, “ Tune In To Temps – how employers and recruiters can support agency worker voice in the workplace” we highlight...
Jul 2017
The Gig Economy: Whatever happened to the 9 to 5?
The gig economy has been under massive scrutiny in the media for years and, more recently, self-employment and atypical working have climbed the political agenda too. As CEO of...
Jun 2017