“The price of getting to your job is astronomical”: Britain’s cost-of-working crisis
Employees are being hit by inflation, childcare and commuting costs — especially those who moved away to work from home…
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The fire-and-rehire policy used by P&O jeopardises millions of British jobs
Policies that enforce insecure work have become more widespread since the pandemic.
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Millions of employees don’t know if they’ll be working next week
Insecure working hours are bad for wellbeing and add extra costs such as emergency childcare.
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The “new normal” has turned the office into a men’s club
Women are more likely to apply for remote working roles, and the gender pay gap is getting worse.
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“It’s not shameful”: the fertility officer taking on work’s parent problem
Solicitor Natalie Sutherland is the world’s first fertility officer, tasked with finding common ground between professional structures and real life.
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My generation don’t see maternity leave as the only reason to take a career break
Boomers love judging millennials for putting their lives before their jobs.
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“Flexible working has nothing to do with working from home”: Anna Whitehouse on how the workplace punishes women
The Flex Appeal campaigner has spent five years pushing companies to be more reasonable about parents’ time.
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Don’t listen to the doomsters, my four-day week is pure joy
For the first time in my working life, things seem doable.
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The grey resignation: why the disappearance of older workers is an economic risk
There are now 208,000 fewer over-50s in the UK’s labour market than there were before the pandemic, and that’s a…
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There is no “best place to work” any more – just good jobs and bad jobs
A new list of the top companies by employee reviews shows how drastically the world of work has changed.
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Danger, dehydration and doorbells: what it’s like delivering Christmas shopping for Amazon
For Amazon drivers, the festive season is a time of precarious employment and unsustainable workloads handed out by unseen algorithms.
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“Covid has revealed a lot of nonsense about work”: the CEO who moved his bank to a four-day week
Mark Mullen, CEO of Atom Bank, explains why he trimmed his employees’ working week to 34 hours.
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Insecure gig economy work more than doubles in five years
Gig economy workers now represent 15 per cent of the total workforce in England and Wales.
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Workplace well-being: why employers should invest in mental health
Businesses and organisations that neglect staff happiness risk a talent exodus.
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People want to work less – and they’re entirely right
After the changes wrought by a deadly virus, people are realising that there is more to life than lining somebody…
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Exclusive: New figures reveal Rishi Sunak’s flagship youth jobs scheme is having little impact
New data reveals that Kickstart, extended for four months by the Chancellor this week, is not driving a fall in…
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Bob Mortimer’s Train Guy exposes the absurdity of workplace culture
Train Guy is the archetypal tosser from the ever-booming management classes – the sort of high-grade professional we find we can currently do…
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