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Energy wasted by office buildings costing businesses £60m in bills
Energy being wasted every year by a few thousand office buildings across five UK cities could power over 100,000 homes and is costing businesses £60m...
Published 29 Jan 2020
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Chancellor asked to think again on IR35 changes
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and leaders from 14 of the UK's top recruitment firms have written to the Chancellor expressing concerns about the...
Published 29 Jan 2020
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Sustainability strategies more successful when managers believe in them
New research from Cass Business School has found that business sustainability strategies can succeed alongside mainstream competitive strategies when managers believe in them....
Published 29 Jan 2020
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Government offered help in designing new immigration system
The CIPD and some of the UK’s largest business organisations have signed a letter to Rt Hon Priti Patel offering their help in designing a...
Published 29 Jan 2020
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New measures to improve building safety standards
The slow pace of improving building safety standards will not be tolerated, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has warned, as he announced measures that go further...
Published 29 Jan 2020
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69% of managers’ work will be automated by 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies such as virtual personal assistants and chatbots are rapidly making headway into the workplace. By 2024, Gartner, Inc. predicts...
Published 29 Jan 2020
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Women need to be recognised in workplace health and safety, says report
Men and women’s different working conditions and treatment by society can affect the risks both genders face at work, as well as how to assess...
Published 23 Jan 2020
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Do your employees take a lunch break?
Recent research by Flexioffices indicates, with the dawn of the new decade, work, office peer pressure and promotion ambitions have become ever growing threats to...
Published 23 Jan 2020
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“Jack’s law” to introduce two weeks’ leave for bereaved parents
Parents who lose a child will receive two weeks' paid bereavement leave under new government rules that will come into force in April....
Published 23 Jan 2020
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68% of workers do not feel safe in their workplace
Nearly a quarter of remote workers would quit before returning to a risky worksite....
Published 19 Jan 2021
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Anxiety is on the increase, but mental health support is lacking
Sixty-eight percent of employees have felt anxious and apprehensive about returning to work, while 35% report their mental health is worse now compared to before...
Published 23 Sept 2020
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Workplace first aid kits: what should be in them?
The contents of your workplace first aid kit should be guided by your first aid needs assessment. This should take into account the level of...
Published 16 Jan 2019
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Walking from bed to desk is commuting, German court rules
A German worker who had an accident while walking from his bed to his computer when he was working from home was officially commuting, a...
Published 2 Mar 2022
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Asbestos in schools: an inspector calls
The HSE will be carrying out a programme of inspections of primary and secondary schools in England, Scotland and Wales from October 2023 onwards to...
Published 25 Sept 2023
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‘Ethical veganism’ now a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010
A judge in a UK Employment Tribunal has ruled that being vegan, for ethical reasons, amounts to a ‘philosophical belief’ and is therefore protected by...
Published 8 Jan 2020
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