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Workplaces are increasingly recognizing that productive employees seek out workplaces that prioritize mental well-being and offer flexible working conditions.
Flexible working can bring people autonomy and joy, but so can feeling part of a team at the office.
A four-day week boosts productivity and employee wellbeing, but it should be carefully planned and tailored to individual company needs.
Before the pandemic, young professionals were the least likely age group to work from home.
About two-thirds of generation Z seem to want a hybrid working pattern in the future.
Women are often drawn to teaching because of the supposed life-work balance. Extreme workloads and inflexible school structures means too many quit early.
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On International Women’s Day, universities should resolve to lead the way in reshaping workplace rituals, rules and routines to advance gender equality and ensure safe workplaces.
Flexible arrangements might help women maintain a work-life balance, but can also weaken their position in the labour market and lose them earnings in the long term.
Women and their careers benefit when men are allowed – and encouraged – by their employers to do more caregiving.
How can businesses overcome institutional hurdles to transition to a four-day week?
For as long as there has been remote working, companies have sought ways to replicate the serendipitous conversations we have in a physical work space.
Most people who worked at home during lockdown want to continue doing so in some respect according to one recent survey.
We asked 1,400 managers to rate working from home. Some 8.4% said their teams were less productive, 57% said it was the same, and 34% said it was higher.
We all need to be our most compassionate and caring selves.
Flexible work has the potential to solve many issues that see people fall out of the workforce but many companies still struggle to do it right.
Uber Works is the next step in the evolution of the gig economy.
While there are certainly benefits, there are also a number of pitfalls to remote working.
And how companies can let dogs in without scaring off any humans.
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Associate professor of work and employment, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainable Urban Precincts Project, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor HRM/IR, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Deputy Dean, UNSW Business School, Co-DVC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Organisation Theory, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Lecturer and researcher in Organizational Psychology, City, University of London
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Reader in Organisational Behaviour, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Social Work, Boston College
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Distinguished Professor of Management Science, Lancaster University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Research Assistant at the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University
