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Twitter chat: Employee engagement and Brexit
15 Nov 2016The IES Brexit Observatory will host a twitter chat with a panel of experts on the impacts of Brexit on employee engagement on Thursday, 24 November, 2016 from 13:00 to 14:00 GMT.
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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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Employers do not discriminate between foreign-born and UK-born candidates
10 Oct 2016IES report finds that there is little evidence of key UK sectors targeting foreign-born workers specifically, even in the case of hard-to-fill vacancies.
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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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IES Viewpoint: UK employment and Brexit: the issues
27 Sep 2016Nigel Meager, Institute Director, considers the potential impact that Brexit could have on employment and introduces the IES Brexit Observatory.
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The Blue Light Programme: Support for emergency services
27 Sep 2016Kate Spiegelhalter writes on IES' evaluation of Mind's Blue Light programme and the benefits of schemes which work with people who are dealing with mental health issues.
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Improving young people's employability
27 Sep 2016Rosa Marvell considers IES research on behalf of STEMNET looking at the positive impacts that a focus on employability skills can bring to young people.