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Connecting investments on skills, careers guidance and employment
18 Dec 2024Following a recent Parliamentary roundtable discussion on the role of careers guidance in national economic growth, Alison Carter reflects on how careers guidance services can best be developed further to help fill the potential gaps in the future UK labour market.
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December Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
17 Dec 2024IES analysis of this month's Labour Market Statistics, published December 17th 2024
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Labour Market Statistics, December 2024
17 Dec 2024IES analysis of this month's Labour Market Statistics, published December 17th 2024
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Total reward strategies in 2024 and the direction for 2025: planning, purpose and practice
16 Dec 2024As we approach year-end, some twenty years after publishing his first book on taking ‘Reward Strategies: from intent to impact’, IES Associate Duncan Brown assesses the state of reward strategy and total rewards packages today, and what’s needed in the 2020s.
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Afro hair discrimination: the DEI ‘blind spot’ affecting black women in the workplace
10 Dec 2024Jan Northcroft explores the issue of afro hair discrimination, how it manifests in the workplace, and how addressing this DEI blind spot will enable employers to create more inclusive workspaces, as well as attract and retain more diverse talent.
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What is the impact of new workplace technologies on job quality?
5 Dec 2024Nick Litsardopoulos explores how recent developments in digital technologies have impacted on both jobs and the job market.
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Job quality: a route to healthier working lives
2 Dec 2024Jonny Gifford reflects on IES’ latest research into the links between job quality and health in the UK.
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A snapshot of the UK employment indicators
27 Nov 2024Nick Litsardopoulos takes an in depth look into recent political turbulence, technological change and legislation relating to employment, and how these, among other factors, have had an impact on the current UK labour market.
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Get Britain Working: a welcome approach to fixing the employment support system
26 Nov 2024With the White Paper just published, Becci Newton considers the new government plans to reform the employment support system and 'Get Britain Working'.
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Returning to work after cancer: the growing role of HR in employee support
21 Nov 2024Dr Zofia Bajorek summarises the findings from IES and Working With Cancer's recent research into how cancer patients returning to work are currently supported, and best policies and practice moving forward.