Flexible work is on the rise but research shows it often leads to people working longer hours than they would otherwise.
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Flexible learning and teaching can help those who want to study while working. It requires structural changes and attitude shifts within universities and companies whose employees want to study.
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?
No company wants to be singled out for having “Victorian” work practices, as Sports Direct has been. Despite the poisonous reputation of zero hours contracts, employers continue to argue they need them…
There are two quiet trends that might very well transform the structure of work in the near future. First, a majority of today’s employees expect to work beyond the traditional retirement age of 65, with…
It was meant to be a new dawn. Since June 30 this year all UK employees have been granted the right to request flexible working. It is clearly an important step in the battle to achieve some…
The US division of L’Oréal has recently gained a new gender equality certification. The Economic Dividends for Gender Equality (EDGE) certification is a way that companies can “prove” their credentials…
If you were to choose one buzzword that, despite its vagueness, has dominated industrial relations debate over three decades, it would be “flexibility”. It has emerged again in rhetoric surrounding Toyota’s…
If you are a carer, the need for flexibility can creep up slowly or arrive overnight. Guardian journalist Jackie Ashley and her broadcaster husband Andrew Marr experienced this after he suffered a stroke…
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Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
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Professor of Management, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor Emerita, University of the Western Cape
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Reader in Organisational Behaviour, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
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Lecturer and researcher in Organizational Psychology, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex
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Professor of Healthcare Management and Leadership Development, Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield
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Distinguished Professor of Management Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer Human Resource Management, University of Huddersfield