Theme : work
- BE A PODCAST, vol 3, ep. 1: Career Innovation In this episode of the Be A Podcast series, Peter Bradwell spoke to Jonathan Winter and Tony DiRomualdo of Career Innovation, authors of The Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace. from : petebradwell 24th January 2008
- Stumbling and Mumbling: Unemployment kills Link to some research which finds that 'We find that job displacement leads to a 15-20% increase in death rates during the following 20 years.' from : duncanoleary 4th December 2007
- Mind the gap Despite thirty years of legislation disadvantaged young women are yet to reap the rewards of gender equality in the workplace. from : celiahannon 13th June 2007
- Arts students 'plan careers less' Arts and humanities students are much less likely to have made plans for working after university and expect less well-paid jobs, suggests research. The UK Graduate Careers Survey examined students' expectations of the graduate job market - and found a much more confident, work-focused, approach from students on work-related courses. from : duncanoleary 8th May 2007
- You're Hired! Yesterday Niamh and I launched Demos’s latest pamphlet, Recruitment 2020: How Recruitment is Changing and Why it Matters.The pamphlet, as more perceptive readers may have already guessed, looks at the future of the recruitment industry. It argues that recruitment is caught up in some of the key public policy issues of our time – business success, job satisfaction, equality, integration and privacy. from : duncanoleary 27th April 2007
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | You've got to laugh Cites new study on 'workplace happiness index'. Lists factors that make us happy at work. Argues graduates are becoming more value-driven in their choices of where to work. Some good anecdotes too. from : duncanoleary 11th January 2007
- The year of inflexible working Dodgy prediction report: Lucy Kellaway argues that 2007 is the year when flexible working goes out of fashion. Her main argument is that the debate over work-life balance has been misleading. It's raised employee expectations without really changing what employers want, which is for their staff to work very hard for as little cash as possible. Time for all this pretence to end and for everyone to get their own cubicle again.Maybe, but another article alongside Kellaway's (sub required) points... from : simonparker 3rd January 2007
- Another day, another word... Ever heard of a webinar? Nope me neither, until i was asked to take part in one the other day. But i’m all for new words. And i’m interested in lots of questions around skills and work so i went along. from : duncanoleary 18th December 2006
- Joining up the dots The more we find about young people's changing relationship with digital media the more questions this raises about their future as students and employees. Just as some schools find it difficult to capitalise on the creative and technological skills of many of their pupils, so organisations risk overlooking the new skills of young graduates. As the recent Demos publication Working Progress demonstrated, employers think new graduates are arriving without with the skills needed to navigate the... from : celiahannon 30th August 2006
- Want better workers? Then offer better jobs Argues that the ubiquity of poor jobs is leading to low aspirations in education: 'As the labour market offers more and more low-paid, low-skilled and insecure employment, there seems to be a corresponding tit-for-tat between employer and employee about who can offer the other the least. "It's only a temporary position I'm afraid, with no hope of advancement." "Great. Sounds perfect for me, because I'm surly and I can't read."' from : duncanoleary 23rd August 2006
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