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The rise of the loveable leader: pandemic inspires new generation of compassionate leadership
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The rise of the loveable leader: pandemic inspires new generation of compassionate leadership

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leaderHeralding the age of a more compassionate type of leader, almost eight in ten (76 percent) UK business leaders consider their employees to be friends, not just colleagues, with three quarters (74 percent) admitting they want their employees to like them, claims new research from Michael Page. (more…)

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Insecure income, boredom and physical health impacted employee wellbeing most in lockdown
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Insecure income, boredom and physical health impacted employee wellbeing most in lockdown

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physical healthHaving an insecure financial situation, being bored in both work and free time, and worsening physical health were the biggest factors affecting employee’s wellbeing, during the first covid-19 lockdown, according to new research from emlyon business school. (more…)

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Information findability problems impact companies’ bottom line
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Information findability problems impact companies’ bottom line

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informationOver the past year, organisations experienced an increase in problems related to finding information, resulting in greater reliance on knowledge and information management tools than in previous years, according to a new survey by Sinequa and APQC. (more…)

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Gen Z reject ‘right to work from home’ proposal
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Gen Z reject ‘right to work from home’ proposal

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Gen ZAmid news that the UK government is mulling plans to grant Brits the right to work from home permanently, a new Clockwise survey claims that a majority of Gen Z workers would in fact prefer to work from an office. (more…)

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UK employees working £4.2 billion unpaid overtime every week
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UK employees working £4.2 billion unpaid overtime every week

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unpaid overtimeThe amount of unpaid overtime that workers around the world are doing has soared in the past year; unpaid overtime in the UK has steadily risen from six hours in 2019 to seven hours in 2020 in the advent of COVID-19, to almost eight hours in 2021, claims a new study by the ADP Research Institute, People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce View. (more…)

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Three quarters of people returning to the office are actively seeking new ways to travel
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Three quarters of people returning to the office are actively seeking new ways to travel

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travelThe commute as we knew it may be gone for good, claims new research conducted by DASH Rides. DASH and Sapio Research surveyed over 2,000 city-dwelling, full-time workers, who used to work primarily in the office and now work primarily at home and discovered that three quarters of those returning to the office will be actively avoiding public transport or seeking new ways to travel. (more…)

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‘WFH paranoia’: Half of UK workers send emails late at night or early morning
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‘WFH paranoia’: Half of UK workers send emails late at night or early morning

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paranoiaOne-in-five (20 percent) UK workers now have their work instant messaging app on their personal mobile phone, as WFH paranoia sets in, according to new research by Furniture At Work. (more…)

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Scottish homeworkers struggle with work-life balance and excessive workloads
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Scottish homeworkers struggle with work-life balance and excessive workloads

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ScottishThe significant shift to homeworking as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep differences in job quality across the Scottish workforce, according to CIPD Scotland’s annual Working Lives Scotland report. (more…)

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Winning the war for talent in the post-pandemic world
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Winning the war for talent in the post-pandemic world

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pandemicThe Future Forum, a consortium launched by Slack Technologies, Inc., has released a new study that unpacks how 15 months of pandemic work has shifted employee expectations. (more…)

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Research claims ’emerging class divide’ in who gets flexible working
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Research claims ’emerging class divide’ in who gets flexible working

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class divideNew polling in a report published by the TUC claims an emerging class divide as some workers opt to keep working from home whereas those who can’t work from home have little access to any forms of flexible working. (more…)

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Cities could be more important post-pandemic, not less, suggests report
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Cities could be more important post-pandemic, not less, suggests report

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Manchester, one of the UK's great citiesParadoxically, more in-person work environments and the concentration of jobs in cities could be a medium- to long-term impact of the pandemic’s shift to remote working, suggests Citi GPS Technology at Work: The Coming of the Post-Production Society, a report produced by Citi and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The report cites the automation of manufacturing and clerical tasks alongside the potential for professional services jobs that can be done remotely to be done cheaper overseas as the start of a foundational shift in developed economies. The future of work in these countries, it suggests, could be based largely on innovation, exploration and creative thinking which require face-to-face interaction and geographic proximity. (more…)

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Working from home has increased UK working hours, but at what cost?
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Working from home has increased UK working hours, but at what cost?

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hoursResearch from Ezra claims that UK employees are working longer hours than ever thanks to remote working. However, the lack of structured office hours is having a detrimental effect on employee work-life balance and wellbeing and, therefore, the quality of their work. (more…)

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