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October Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
12 Oct 2021Today’s figures show that labour shortages are now affecting the whole economy, with fewer unemployed people per vacancy than at any time in at least forty years.
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Lifting the lid on the return to workplace toolkit
16 Sep 2021Zofia Bajorek details the latest output from the PURPOSE programme, a toolkit for employers to establish a return-to-workplace plan for employees living with obesity.
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September Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
14 Sep 2021Today’s figures confirm that the jobs recovery is continuing to gain speed. However they also show that we’ve seen the biggest fall in the size of the labour market since at least the early 1970s
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Research during a pandemic 2: How has our research in pre-16 education gone this summer?
2 Sep 2021With the onset of a new academic year, Anneka Dawson reflects on the progress made with early years research projects undertaken during a succession of lockdowns, and details how the adaptation of evaluation methods can help research be more resilient in the future.
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Why ‘i-deals’ may not be idyllic for managing hybrid work
23 Aug 2021With hybrid working and the desire for greater workplace autonomy becoming more commonplace, Zofia Bajorek considers the use of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals), where special conditions of employment are offered to individual workers.
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How to make values grow and flourish as a meaningful part of the business
18 Aug 2021Beth Mason digs deep, drawing on horticultural references to demonstrate how organisational values can be successfully embedded and grown within the business.
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August Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
17 Aug 2021Today's figures show that the recovery continued to gain momentum through the spring as restrictions eased.
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IES welcomes new Director of HR Research and Consulting
4 Aug 2021IES is delighted to announce the appointment of Claire Campbell as their new Director of HR Research and Consulting.
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Inequality and in-work poverty: The new priorities for HR?
4 Aug 2021Duncan Brown highlights the issue of ‘excessive inequality’, cited as ‘one of the major challenges of our time’, and considers how organisations and employers can help in addressing the problem of poverty and poor financial wellbeing.
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July Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
21 Jul 2021Today’s figures show that the jobs recovery continued to pick up pace through spring as restrictions eased. As we expected, the single-month estimate of job vacancies for June was the highest figure ever recorded, smashing the previous record and driven by rises across nearly all industries.