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Working beyond retirement - the new prescription for good health?
8 Dec 2016Professor Stephen Bevan responds to the 2015 Chief Medical Officer's annual surveillance report and considers the impact of working longer, for both employees and their employers.
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It's Financial Capability Week; what are you doing?
14 Nov 2016Catherine Rickard encourages employers to get involved in Financial Capability Week and provide support to the financial wellbeing of their employees.
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Ageing and learning in the workplace: Is age just a number?
26 Oct 2016In the context of an ageing workforce, Dr Kath Atkinson considers whether using someone's year of birth is a good way to determine their approach towards workplace learning.
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Meaningful work. Part 2: How to destroy the meaning of work
6 Oct 2016Professor Katie Bailey considers factors which can encourage a sense of meaningless at work and describes how this sentiment presents itself to employees.
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Meaningful work. Part 1: Where can we find it?
29 Sep 2016In the first of this two-part blog, Professor Katie Bailey considers how jobs can be meaningful and what employers can do to raise levels of meaningfulness in their organisations.
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Higher education in a post-Brexit world
28 Sep 2016Joy Williams outlines the current issues facing higher education in the UK and the surrounding debate following the UK's decision to leave the EU.
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How will Brexit impact UK employment legislation?
19 Sep 2016David Yeandle OBE discusses the effect that the UK's decision to leave the EU might have on UK employment law, considering both individual and collective rights, and the decisions that the UK government may take.
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Precarious work - a slippery concept?
9 Sep 2016With a rise in zero-hours contracts in the UK, Andrea Broughton discusses what 'precarious work' really looks like, and analyses its prevalence across Europe.
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Immigration and Brexit: Four challenges
1 Sep 2016Guest blog: Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory, considers how the Brexit vote will impact on immigration policy-making in the UK.
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Post-referendum uncertainty demands a focus on employee engagement
30 Aug 2016In the landscape of uncertainty following the Brexit vote, Stephen Bevan considers the need for HR and employers to focus on employee engagement.