GPs are finding the compensation process for work related mental health claims onerous and in some cases bad for their patient’s health, a study has found.
From www.shutterstock.com
GPs are worried that the WorkCover claims process worsens patients’ health and are encouraging them to not pursue it, a study has found.
shutterstock.com
Life is messy – and it’s time we accepted that.
Same journey. Different rewards.
REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Publishing the data on the differences between salaries for men and women will only be half the battle.
wavebreakmedia
Workmates are playing a greater role in our social lives. But it’s not all drinkies and group hugs.
Bean bags as chairs and other office design gimmicks are not the best ideas for a mentally healthy workplace.
From www.shutterstock.com
Employers need to move beyond promoting mental health to preventing psychological harm at work.
Dark times? Night falls in Davos.
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
We live in changing times. Let’s hope the power brokers work out how to manage them.
Secret evidence can leave employees in the dark.
Nicole Salow
Sacked from your job and never told why. Is this the new normal for some workers in Britain?
Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley leaves a couple of stormtroopers on the sidelines.
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
Rey, Leia and Captain Phasma prove this film is light years ahead of the gender equality curve.
Present but unproductive.
shutterstock.com
We’re increasingly afraid of missing work – even when sick. New research reveals why.
from www.shutterstock.com
A new study finds that men who earn most of the dough are willing to give it up for more time at home.
Even in a dreary office, by understanding how your brain works you can change how it feels to be there.
from www.shutterstock.com
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don’t have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
Abercrombie says it will no longer require employees to be constantly on call.
Reuters
A significant share of the workforce wakes up every day without knowing at what time they’ll work – or even if they will earn anything at all.
Workplaces should try to eliminate situations where bullying can occur, rather than put responsibility on workers to behave nicely.
www.shutterstock.com
Like cancer, bullying will affect a majority of employees during their working lives, as a victim, witness, or perhaps as the alleged bully. And like cancer, there’s no silver bullet to cure bullying.
Jaime Fearer
Why three-day weekends are not only feasible but the basis of a better standard of life.
After a hard day at work, children still expect their mom to spend quality time with them.
SHUTTERSTOCK
How successful a mother or career scientist one can become depends on how one’s available time is divided between the two activities.
What keeps workers going when the goal isn’t even in sight?
Road image via www.shutterstock.com
New Year’s resolutions are one thing. But what does it take to devote your life to a work goal with such a long time horizon you might never reach it in your lifetime?
Some firms are ditching annual performance reviews and replacing them with more regular evaluations.
Image sourced from Shutterstock.com
Much of the work we do cannot be properly measured, and yet we often get judged unfairly for it.
Not just for the workless.
from shutterstock.com
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
Engine of growth.
Scottish Government
The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
Time to punch out?
Bernard Polet/Flickr
The changes President Obama proposed are hardly radical and are in keeping with the original spirit of the Fair Labor Standards Act.