June 26, 2013
Latest edition of Insight newsletter now available to view online
The latest issue of the Insight newsletter is available to view online. This week, what Jeremy Clarkson can’t teach us about workplace productivity; the string of surveys, ideas and terminology that can lead commentators to make grand and daft pronouncements about flexible working and why the latest wellness figures show a disturbing lack of fitness amongst the UK workforce. Our regular contributor Simon Heath ponders the somewhat derivative and cautious designs amongst the RIBA awards winners, while our latest contributor Andrew Brown questions the futility of designing a state-of-the-art office in the first place if it’s the management that make the workplace stink. To view this week’s newsletter – which includes an update on the changing structure of the market for corporate offices in the U.S. – click here.
June 21, 2013
Managing a work-life balance isn’t solely a women’s issue
by Sara Bean • Comment, Flexible working, Legal news, News, Workplace
Two reports published this week show that a cultural change is needed to stop employers assuming only female workers have families or other personal concerns that could impact on their workplace performance. A report into workplace equality by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (BIS) has called on the UK Government to do more to tackle female underrepresentation in sectors of the economy and to dispel the myth that any type of flexible working is a ‘women’s issue,’ problematic and cannot work. In the US a study by employee assistance providers Bensinger, DuPont and Associates (BDA) into stress has found that men are more than twice as likely to receive formal disciplinary action when the stress of a personal problem impacts on their work performance. More →