Understanding how people move through job sectors is crucial.
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Little is known about how many people transition between the informal and formal sectors, a phenomenon called “churning”.
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Top tips to improve your email use based on academic research into email best practice, productivity and stress.
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An exciting announcement about upcoming plans – and we revisit an old favourite episode.
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When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
Preliminary drawing of title page for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 26:7, The Maurice Sendak Collection.
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The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.
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From bake sales to office Olympics, fundraising for Red Nose Day can boost staff morale and lets employees support a good cause.
Skilled craft jobs like plumbing and carpentry pay better than most blue-collar jobs.
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President Trump says that the white working class is being pushed out of the job market. But that doesn’t seem to be true for the best-paying blue-collar jobs.
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An emerging genre of fiction in France is providing an unlikely brand of escapism.
Ten years ago, almost a third of self-employed people in the UK contributed to pension schemes. That figure has dropped dramatically.
Since the Great Recession, the employment rate has gone up — but some rural groups lag behind.
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There’s a notable disparity between the rate of employment for people with and without disabilities, especially in certain pockets of the US.
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An obsession with GDP growth fails to account for some of society’s most pressing problems.
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Flexible working is seen as a solution to the gender pay gap but cultural norms are getting in the way.
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If you make it to the interview stage but don’t get a job offer, chances are you made one of four common errors.
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A new RGCS study identifies four possible scenarios about work and management that could be combined over the next decade.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour work week – working three hours a day – within a few generations.
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The idea of reduced working hours was once seen as an essential indicator of progress. It’s time it was again.
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Our obsession with busyness is about managing relationships – not just time.
Deep acting at work could be a protective factor for employees in challenging situations, but it can also take a toll and lead to burnout.
To protect employees from burnout, organizations should recognize which emotions are expected to be managed as a part of the job, and what situations generate emotional labour.
For every £1 men earn per hour, women earn 81.6p.
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How an increased use of technology could widen the gender pay gap in higher education.
Even when women come forward they are often silenced.
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A culture of silence suggests for every headline about sexual harassment, many more cases go unreported.
Few work environments offer greater isolation than Antarctica.
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Isolation at work can be unhealthy. But it can also be a good thing – as this researcher found out when he walked solo from Melbourne to Sydney.