Four-day week may lead to greater satisfaction but workers will face trade-off, expert says
Under new government plans to encourage flexible working arrangements, employees could be given increased powers to request a four-day working week.
Under new government plans to encourage flexible working arrangements, employees could be given increased powers to request a four-day working week.
Economics & Business
Sep 3, 2024
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Returning to work after parental leave can be one of the most challenging experiences for any parents, especially mothers, to navigate. Fortunately, there are simple, kind and thoughtful ways in which organizational members—regardless ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2024
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Results of a new survey suggest a positive organizational culture is the top non-financial factor impacting well-being at work for most individuals, but younger Gen Z workers place more value on flexibility.
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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A team of community health specialists at the Boston University School of Public Health, working with a psychiatrist from Brown University, has found evidence that suggests workers who have more job flexibility and security ...
Did you know that, according to a recent study, there are more than 300 ways to work flexibly? The list of possible flexible work practices used by an increasingly diverse and aging workforce has grown significantly since ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2024
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Millions of insecure workers in the U.K. are living in fear that they will lose their jobs and that an unexpected bill could put them in the red, according to a new in-depth analysis from the Work Foundation at Lancaster ...
Economics & Business
Nov 13, 2023
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Flexible working is key to creating a more diverse and inclusive workforce, according to a new report. The research into equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK insurance industry also found that excessive alcohol consumption ...
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2023
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Flexible working needs to be available for all to avoid widening inequalities, a report from academics at Cardiff University concludes.
Social Sciences
Sep 6, 2023
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Dr. Maria Adamson, co-director of Queen Mary's Center for Research in Equality & Diversity and senior lecturer in the School of Business & Management, has written for advocacy charity Working Families about how COVID lockdowns ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2023
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With more than a third of UK workers saying they'd quit if their job demanded a full-time return to the office, and working parents facing the third-most expensive childcare system in the world when juggling career with family, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2023
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