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DEI trends 2023: reviewing the year gone by
10 Jan 2024Meenakshi Krishnan summarises the trends and developments in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace in 2023, including the worrying backlash against ongoing efforts to improve opportunities for marginalised groups.
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Pay and rewards: our ‘hopes and fears’ and your key priorities for 2024 to avoid more ‘stagnation (HR) nation’
2 Jan 20242024 pay awards are high on the employer agenda. But with a sense of continuing economic stagnation pay and reward specialist Duncan Brown considers three priority areas that HR should focus on in 2024.
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The search for better labour market data
14 Dec 2023Good quality, accurate, reliable data is a critical starting point in the development of evidence-based public policy. Daniel Muir takes an in-depth look into the recent issues with accurate data collection, possible alternatives, and future challenges in relation to the changing labour market.
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The Commission for Healthier Working Lives: building a consensus on how to address the decline in working-age health
7 Dec 2023IES, Learning and Work Institute and Royal Society for Public Health are collaborating as research partners on the Commission for Healthier Working Lives, supported by the Health Foundation, which aims to identify and address the reasons for the current decline in working-age health in the UK. This blog introduces the new collaboration, and sets out its plans and intentions.
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16-18 education: participation matters
27 Nov 2023Following the party political conferences, Becci Newton looks at the current participation of 16 to 18 year olds in education and training, the worrying rise in levels of non-participation, and the main parties' policy intentions on this. She covers recent policy history, reasons for success, or lack of it, and recommendations to achieve improvements.
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The prize for tackling health-related economic inactivity
23 Nov 2023Rates of economic inactivity due to long-term health conditions have increased rapidly in recent years. Dan Muir looks at the impact of this on the economy, and explores a number of potential options for addressing the issue, as well as the benefits of doing so.
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Looking into the future of workplace coaching
21 Nov 2023Following her recent presentation on the Future of Coaching, Alison Carter reflects on the rapid rise in workplace coaching, and how employers can ensure it is both effective and appropriate to their specific workplace and employees.
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Mental health at work: the employers’ role in supporting disclosure and tackling taboo topics
16 Nov 2023Jonathan Buzzeo looks at gendered differences in mental health and calls for employers to use a nuanced understanding of how mental health conditions and coping strategies might manifest for different employees within the workplace.
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What are green jobs and how can they be supported?
13 Nov 2023Green jobs are back in the spotlight, but how many green jobs actually are there and how can we support their growth? asks Ben Brindle, former Research Economist (Fellow) at IES.
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Why does the gender pay gap persist? A Nobel Prize winning answer
31 Oct 2023In the light of Claudia Goldin's recent Nobel Prize for her work on advancing the understanding of women's labour-market outcomes, Meenakshi Krishnan explores the barriers to equal pay between genders, including caring responsibilities and outdated employer perceptions and what needs to happen for this persistent imbalance to be addressed.