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Employee engagement and Brexit twitter chat: Recap
30 Nov 2016A look back at the Brexit Observatory twitter chat in November 2016. Our panel of experts discussed with others how Brexit might effect employee engagement.
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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.