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Reward strategy 2022: from profit and cost-focus to prosperity, proper pay and compassion
12 Oct 2022Duncan Brown argues that a stronger emphasis on delivering fair pay and employment, is the key to achieving sustained high performance and productivity in the fact of the cost of living crisis and rising inflation.
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World Mental Health Day: identifying three priority areas for employer action
10 Oct 2022To mark World Mental Health Day, Stephen Bevan looks at how employers can help tackle the causes of work related mental ill health, setting out three priority areas for action.
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The ageing workforce: time for a more strategic data-driven approach?
7 Oct 2022Dan Lucy examines the challenges facing the recruitment and retention of older workers and sets out three practical examples of what organisations can do to create a more age inclusive workforce.
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Improving outcomes for young people: what lessons can we learn from Europe?
6 Oct 2022Drawing on her latest output for the Better Quality Youth Employment research programme, Cristiana Orlando considers what the UK could learn from other countries when tackling the current challenges surrounding young people’s prospects and outcomes.
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Behaviours that work in helping people find work: how we can use Behavioural Insights to improve employment outcomes
29 Sep 2022Behavioural Insights, an approach that aims to determine what drives behaviour in order to change behaviour, have seen increasing use in employment programmes. Miguel Subosa highlights findings from recent ReAct research regarding behaviourally informed employment programmes and lays out recommendations to help improve employment support services.
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Will management ‘productivity paranoia’ be the undoing of hybrid work?
28 Sep 2022Zofia Bajorek sets out ways to reduce ‘productivity paranoia’, ensuring a smoother implementation of hybrid working practice after a recent survey reported that only a minority of managers had confidence that hybrid workers were being productive.
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Can businesses afford to pay (or afford not to pay) a living wage?
22 Sep 2022In light of the Real Living Wage increase and the prospect of a significant pay-rise for hundreds of thousands of workers, Claudia Plowden Roberts and Astrid Allen consider the differing terms to describe several recommended pay scales and what this means for both employers and employees alike.
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All change: as government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth
22 Sep 2022Tony Wilson looks ahead to this week’s emergency mini budget, setting out four key areas where action needs to be taken to help more people into work, address labour and skills shortages, support growth and tackle inflation.
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Reflections on the Good Work Project: how can councils and combined authorities best support good work in their communities?
20 Sep 2022Danni-May Higlett, Cristiana Orlando and Astrid Allen reflect on their recent research for the Local Government Association (LGA) that highlights the need for local government and local employers to support good work initiatives.
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How can remote working support levelling-up?
8 Sep 2022Daniel Muir, Astrid Allen and Rosie Gloster highlight the opportunity that remote working presents to distribute wealth more evenly across the UK, and set out how government and employers can capitalise on this trend to attract and retain a diverse and talented workforce.