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The 4 day week campaign will run three new pilots for employers in 2025. A programme for local councils will run from March to May, a pilot for the...

With the debate over mandated office returns running parallel with employee demand for greater work-life balance and job flexibility, compressed hours are a tempting proposition for employers, according to...

“Christmas is a very, very bad time when it comes to mental health. There are so many patients, and they need to be transferred all over the country.” This...

With 7.54 million cases on NHS waiting lists in March 2024, and 71,000 appointments that require people to wait for more than a year, it is clear why more...

“I’ll never forget it. I was coming into my 48th year, and I was sitting in my kitchen writing an email, and I couldn't write some of the most...

Older savers, people aged 50+, are failing to plan for potential shocks in retirement, according to research from consultancy Barnett Waddingham. The study shows that workers aged 50+ consistently...

An employment tribunal has ruled that a Goldman Sachs employee was unfairly dismissed after taking six months of paternity leave and was subjected to direct sex discrimination. Jon Reeves,...

Sixty percent of UK companies require employees to work in the office for a set number of days each week, but experts warn that this undermines the benefits of...

Private hospital admissions in the UK hit record levels in the second quarter of 2024 as employers view the struggle to keep their workforces healthy as an "existential threat"....

Negative attitudes to flexible working could be an obstacle to the government’s ambitious Get Britain Working (GBW) reforms, research has suggested. Earlier this week, the government published its GBW...