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The potential role quality part-time work could play in reducing poverty and solving the inactivity…

Vacancy numbers are currently at a near-record high level of around 1.2 million on average per month, more than the number of unemployed…

Dec 1, 2022

The potential role quality part-time work could play in reducing poverty and solving the inactivity…

Dec 1, 2022

It’s time to stop squeezing the ‘squeezed middle’, for everyone’s benefit

A few years ago, I interviewed a cohort of line managers about how they approach wellbeing conversations in their one-to-ones. One finding…

Nov 24, 2022

It’s time to stop squeezing the ‘squeezed middle’, for everyone’s benefit

Nov 24, 2022

Minimum wages: how much is enough?

The current state

Nov 17, 2022

Minimum wages: how much is enough?

Nov 17, 2022

Creating system change: bringing services together to facilitate employment — lessons from the…

As the IES labour market statistical analysis shows, we are facing a substantial mismatch between labour demand and labour supply…

Nov 17, 2022

Creating system change: bringing services together to facilitate employment — lessons from the…

Nov 17, 2022

Remind me again, why are higher and cost-of-living-related pay increases a bad thing?

‘I’m not saying nobody gets a pay rise. What I am saying is we need to see restraint in pay bargaining, otherwise it will get out of…

Oct 24, 2022

Remind me again, why are higher and cost-of-living-related pay increases a bad thing?

Oct 24, 2022

World Mental Health Day: identifying three priority areas for employer action

Today is World Mental Health Day and one thing is sure — you will have a wide choice of excellent blogs, tweets, articles and think pieces…

Oct 10, 2022

World Mental Health Day: identifying three priority areas for employer action

Oct 10, 2022

The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was felt especially hard by young people.

Since then the labour market has recovered, and the latest figures showed that youth unemployment is at record lows. However, the…

Oct 6, 2022

The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic was felt especially hard by young people.

Oct 6, 2022

Will management ‘productivity paranoia’ be the undoing of hybrid work?

Microsoft recently made headlines after publishing survey results suggesting a disconnect between managers and their employees about…

Sep 28, 2022

Will management ‘productivity paranoia’ be the undoing of hybrid work?

Sep 28, 2022

All change: as government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth

This comment piece was originally published on the Prospect website on 21 September.

Sep 28, 2022

All change: as government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth

Sep 28, 2022

Tackling the labour market participation crisis among older people

Policy changes to retirement and pensions, including the abolition of the statutory retirement age in 2011, aimed to give individuals more…

Jul 11, 2022

Tackling the labour market participation crisis among older people

Jul 11, 2022

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The Institute for Employment Studies is a centre for research and evidence-based consultancy in employment and human resource policy and practice.

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