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With the proposal to cut up to £8.8bn a year through the introduction of regional pay boards and wage variation for public sector workers now hastily retracted, Stephen Bevan and Tony Wilson look at this often-mooted idea and reflect on why it has never delivered.

Duncan Brown considers the rise of bonuses and cost of living payments and questions whether bonus payments to lower-paid staff is a step on the path to more permanent and higher investments in people and their productivity.

Claudia Plowden Roberts calls for neurodiversity in the workplace to be celebrated as an intrinsic part of the human diversity spectrum, highlighting that a reliance on talent, not diagnosis, provides organisational advantages when neurodiverse employees are sufficiently supported at work.

Stephen Bevan considers the merits of multi-year pay deals as a potential method of matching wages with potentially long term volatile inflation during a growing cost of living crisis.

To coincide with an article she co-authored on mindfulness as a ‘team’ activity, IES Principal Research Fellow Dr Alison Carter argues for employers to consider more social based wellbeing initiatives.

Rosie Gloster highlights the challenges employers and government face in tackling the participation crisis among older people and details new research, which provides an insight into the types of government action and workplace practices that might offer solutions.

Stephen Bevan highlights the urgent need for self employed construction workers to have improved access to mental health services and support, and makes recommendations on how this could be delivered to make it more accessible to this hard to reach group of workers.

IES researchers detail their evaluation of two new projects, aimed at widening participation in STEM subjects and improving pupil's language and literacy skills.