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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
When workers are living their lives online, it’s hard to see the joins between home and office. So how can employers answer the growing desire to seprate the seemingly inseparable?
Union City Blues. Activists join anti-Thatcher protests in 2013.
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British orgainsed labour has remained relevant despite the onslaught suffered during the 1980s, but it lacks the institutional structure that would make the future secure.
It has been a long road back for Britain from the economic crisis of 2007/8. The chancellor’s Autumn Statement is an indication of how he aims to keep growth on track, but the prime minister has already…