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Reflecting on the recent IES HR Directors’ Retreat, Dan Lucy looks at the challenges facing HR and the future workforce, and the views of industry experts on how these can be addressed.

The demand for remote and/or flexible working arrangements outstrips their availability, while jobs advertised with flexible workplace models attract a higher number of applicants. Dan Muir looks at the availability of flexible and remote working across the UK and identifies which jobs offer the most and least amount of flexibility.

The UK labour market is currently facing several major challenges, one of the most acute of which is skills shortages, writes Daniel Muir, Research Economist at IES.

Flexible working can take many forms and is in high demand by many employees. Astrid Allen reflects on recent research focusing on people who work in site-based roles and details several steps that employers can take to reap the equality, wellbeing and productivity benefits of flexible working.

Drawing on recent IES research, Stephen Bevan's blog considers the persistent wage penalty for working age women living with obesity and calls for society as a whole to permanently challenge the deeply embedded discrimination against people, especially women, living with obesity.

With both the current government and Labour opposition planning to expand childcare in England, IES researchers detail an assessment of where the childcare sector is today to inform what needs to change to meet the planned expansion.

Stephen Bevan reflects on the main causes of health-related job loss among older workers in the UK, highlighting what can be done by employers to predict and mitigate the risk of the problem getting worse.

IES has supported the development of a new Youth Employment Toolkit from Youth Futures Foundation. Becci Newton explains how the resource is designed to move the dial from identifying the risks facing marginalised young people to supporting them to see better outcomes.