Career Progression
Why workplace empathy needs to last beyond Covid
What will happen to the workplace after Covid? It's the six million dollar question. Will... read more
Blogs
We have a number of working parents – mums and dads – writing blogs for us regularly. They write about anything from their opinions on flexible working to the challenges of managing family life. Find their regular posts here.
Gender Equality
The persistence of the male breadwinner model
A study published this week suggests the male breadwinner stereotype is perhaps more... read more
Managing Staff
Why bullying is a sign of failure
Bullying has been much in the news of late and, of course, it was Anti-Bullying Week last... read more
Work Life Balance
Downward mobility
A report out yesterday drew on pre-Covid figures to show the impact on social mobility of... read more
Work Life Balance
School’s in, school’s out
It must be extremely stressful working in a school at the moment, particularly a secondary... read more
Work Life Balance
Targeted support for single parents during Covid
A report out last week from Gingerbread and the Institute for Employment Studies... read more
Flexible Working
Should remote working be taxed?
A report earlier this week put forward a proposal to tax those who work from home and use... read more
Career Advice
How do you find a job in a pandemic?
How do you get back to work in a pandemic, with growing numbers of people competing for... read more
Gender Equality
Kamala Harris and why diversity matters
Kamala Harris' election as the first Black woman to be Vice President of the USA has drawn... read more
Courses & Retraining
Preparing for an automated future
For those living in England the next weeks may feel like we are going backwards to the... read more
Work Life Balance
Covid GCSEs
How can it be right to put more pressure on this year's A Level and GCSE years, who have... read more
Self Employment
Why women in business need to be a post-pandemic priority
The news this weekend of the national lockdown was followed by an announcement on the... read more
Childcare
Why diversity needs to be at the heart of the post-Covid recovery
There have been various reports out this week on how job losses and Covid are affecting... read more
Employment Rights
Employment rights under pressure
The last recession saw big increases in insecure working and it is likely that this one... read more
Work Life Balance
Covid half term
It's half term for much of the country - though not Scotland - and what you can do depends... read more
Work Life Balance
Speaking out when something is wrong
When you are grieving and trying to support other family members who are grieving work can... read more
Childcare
Study shows women adversely impacted by pandemic remote working
Women and lower-paid hit hardest by remote working, a Telegraph headline suggested earlier... read more
Courses & Retraining
Why training needs more investment
The Department of Education's Employer Skills Survey 2019 has revealed that workplace... read more
Work Life Balance
Work Life Week 2020
This has been Work Life Week and there have been a number of different events centred... read more
Diversity
Covid divisions
Covid-19 is increasing divisions and inequalities and has created new ones too. When you... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Making the best of hybrid working
How will hybrid working work? Survey after survey shows that a mix of working from home... read more
