Employment

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Gift from the pandemic: fresh ways of working and communicating

Flexibility contributes to gender equality in the workplace — without affecting your bottom line By RAE MORGAN STATISTICS brandished by companies as proof of progress in...
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If you’re watching, BV bosses, YouTube is a research tool…

ONE IN five UK companies is using an employee-monitoring tool in the hybrid workplace. The new working model has presented fresh challenges for managers. Demand...
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Can digital nomad visas enable us to work from anywhere…?

Businesses need to prepare for international remote working, argues KRISTIAN TORODE THE CONCEPT of digital nomads isn’t exactly new — but a recent visa trend...
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Younger workers are keen to get back to the office, survey...

A CLOCKWISE survey has found that a majority of Gen Z workers would prefer to work from an office. Ministers have proposed legal changes that...
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‘Sleepwalking to disaster’ as firms fail to see discontent

BUSINESSES are sleepwalking towards a costly staff exodus, new research warns. Four in ten employees are looking to change roles in the next year, or...
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Home or office? Future is hybrid, say HR heads

MOST HR professionals — 65 percent of them — believe workers will divide their time between office and home after pandemic restrictions have been...
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Johnson must deliver ‘transformative’ strategy to help disabled people in UK

BUSINESS leaders have called on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to deliver on his promise of a transformative National Strategy for Disabled People. In an...
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Covid hits workplace relationships — and productivity takes a knock

COVID-19’S impact on employer-employee relationships is hampering productivity, a report claims. MetLife UK found that 72 percent of employers and 62 percent of employees have...
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Straddling the fence: will hybrid working be middle ground in home-or-office?

By ROSS SEYCHELL IT’S BEEN a year since the UK entered the biggest — and longest — remote-working experiment in history. But with the vaccine rollout...
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Senior leaders call on UK business owners ‘not to fail young...

NEARLY one year on from the first lockdown, more than one in 10 young people have lost their jobs, with the number of 16...