Most of the UK companies that took part in the world’s biggest ever four-day working week trial have made the policy permanent, research shows. Of…
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‘We feel we’ve earned it’: UK over-50s on switching to part-time work
Simon Woodall, 52, a self-employed carpenter and joiner from Plymouth, says he worked “70 hours a week, for 30 years”, until he had a heart…
View More ‘We feel we’ve earned it’: UK over-50s on switching to part-time workUK firms try to lure Gen Z workers with ‘early finish Fridays’
Hundreds of UK companies are resorting to a new tactic to lure and retain workers from Generation Z amid one of the most competitive jobs…
View More UK firms try to lure Gen Z workers with ‘early finish Fridays’Want to make your staff happier and more productive? Try getting them to work fewer hours | Claire Hall
I’m interested in any idea that makes staff happier and more productive, because I work in HR. But until last year I hadn’t given a…
View More Want to make your staff happier and more productive? Try getting them to work fewer hours | Claire Hall‘I can’t work in the office safely’: the over-50s leaving the UK labour force
“I’m still working at home, but only just.” Before the pandemic, Melanie Green loved her job in a bustling police control room. But the drugs…
View More ‘I can’t work in the office safely’: the over-50s leaving the UK labour forceStaying power! How to thrive in the great resignation if you don’t want to quit
In the US, they are calling it the great resignation or (my preference) the big quit. In the UK, the language is less portentous, but…
View More Staying power! How to thrive in the great resignation if you don’t want to quitI’m being asked to go back to the office, what are my rights in the UK?
My office is reopening, do I have to go back? You can ask to work remotely on a permanent basis but your boss does not…
View More I’m being asked to go back to the office, what are my rights in the UK?Four-day working week would slash UK carbon footprint, report says
The introduction of a four-day working week with no loss of pay would dramatically reduce the UK’s carbon footprint and help the country meet its…
View More Four-day working week would slash UK carbon footprint, report says‘We see huge benefits’: firms adopt four-day week in Covid crisis
When Target Publishing cut staff pay after the first coronavirus lockdown last year, the magazine group knew it had to make a positive gesture to…
View More ‘We see huge benefits’: firms adopt four-day week in Covid crisisFour-day week would be affordable for most UK firms, says thinktank
A carefully designed four-day week could be introduced in the UK immediately and be affordable for most firms with more than 50 workers, a thinktank…
View More Four-day week would be affordable for most UK firms, says thinktank