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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...
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Unnoticed minority shunned by employers due to misconception

Research shows that half of leaders and managers would not employ a neurodivergent person — and a similar proportion might not even know what...
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Free counselling for workers fearing anew for future of their jobs

PUSH, a UK wellbeing and performance company, will be offering free one-to-one mental health support sessions to those struggling with the challenges of coming...
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Work-Life Week is here, how should we mark it in 2020?

THIS is National Work-Life Week — and it sure picked its moment to arrive. With a topsy-turvy world of remote working, overseas escapes, sackings and...
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Using behavioural science can boost productivity and liberate our creative sides

Many Conservative MPs in Britain are reportedly flinching at the idea of compulsory ‘unconscious bias training’. STEPHANIE WATSON explains why all of us should...
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Burnout is coming to get us — WHO has taken note

THE WORLD Health Organisation has officially recognised burnout as a major health risk, and not a moment too soon for some stressed workers. While furloughed...
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The route to profitability — in times of pandemic

ASHLEIGH HINDE, CEO and founder of contact lens company Waldo, on the difficulty of balancing the people, payments and profits equation during tough times WITH...

UK faces ‘productivity collapse’ as remote workers admit they do less

BRITAIN’S economy is on the brink of a productivity collapse, with homebound workers admitting they get away with an average of two hours and...
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Blue for thinking, green for chilling: office design 2.0

By GUZMÁN YARZA DE BLACHE SPENDING the evening scrolling through work emails is something we all do, and it’s a bad habit – a leading...