Decisive government action could save cities at risk of being left behind
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
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A report by The Work Foundation published tomorrow (Thursday) investigates the geography of the UK recovery and sets out which policies will support economic prosperity and respond to the distinctive circumstances faced by different cities.
Decisive government action could save cities at risk of being left behind
Gideon Benari
Good Work Commission to investigate changing nature of work
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
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The Work Foundation today announces the launch of a wide-ranging investigation into the UK workplace. Using independent research and led by senior figures from business, the public sector and trade unions, the Commission’s look at quality of work issues is one of the most comprehensive to be conducted in recent years.
Christine George
23rd Workworld Media Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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At a ceremony at The Work Foundation, Workworld Media Awards, winners were congratulated by executive vice chair, Will Hutton, keynote speaker, Greg Dyke and CEO of EDF Energy, Vincent de Rivaz.
Christine George
Employers squandering the talents of workers
Monday, 23 March 2009
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Too many employers are poorly equipped to weather the recession because they use workers’ skills and talents poorly, tie them up in rules and procedures, and give them little say over how they do their work, The Work Foundation says today.
Steve Overell
Bold package urged to stave off rise in unemployment
Friday, 21 November 2008
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Predicting a peak of 2.5 million unemployed and a worse recession than both the 1980s and 1990s, a new report urges the government to use every means at its disposal – monetary, fiscal, financial and through assorted labour market interventions – to boost the economy and protect employment.
Steve Overell
Three Years On- Revisiting MG Rover
Thursday, 13 November 2008
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Ex-Rover workers suffer big wage falls as they find new work , a report by The Work Foundation and Birmingham Business School has found. Groundbreaking research reveals latest findings on what has happened to the 6,300 workers who lost their jobs in the collapse of MG Rover.
Steve Overell
More ‘good work’ needed to boost jobs and cut child poverty
Thursday, 18 September 2008
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A package of policies designed to create more ‘good jobs’ is urged today in a new report. The quality of employment has an impact on health, life expectancy and life chances and government cannot make serious progress towards the reduction of health inequalities unless it has policies to improve job quality for the most disadvantaged. Work is better for health and life expectancy than worklessness, but it is only really good for us if it is ‘good work’, the report argues.
Stephen Overell
Gap widening between ‘resurgent’ and ‘stuck cities’
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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The Work Foundation today releases a league table of the productivity of different cities across the UK that reveals wide and growing disparities between ‘resurgent’ cities and those that appear to be ‘stuck’.
Stephen Overell
Better management is the key to tackling workers’ stress
Monday, 16 June 2008
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The combination of demanding, complex jobs and low levels of support from managers and colleagues is driving the high prevalence of stress among workers, The Work Foundation says today. When job intensity is coupled with inadequate support and few opportunities for employees to progress in their careers, symptoms such as sleeping problems, anxiety, irritability and stress are a likely result.
Stephen Overell
UK must attract more highly skilled migrant workers
Monday, 02 June 2008
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The UK will need to attract more highly skilled workers from abroad - both from the European Union and outside it - in order to secure the future of high technology, ‘knowledge intensive’ industries in an increasingly global world, a new report finds today.
Stephen Overell
How cities can make the most of collaboration projects?
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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The government risks creating so many partnership programmes among local authorities that the real benefits of collaboration — co-ordination, simplification, and more voice and influence - become undermined, a new report says today.
Steve Overell
CEOs should not be paid for risks they do not bear
Saturday, 22 December 2007
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Being a chief executive of a major company is a relatively low-risk job in comparison with many other sorts of work, a new paper argues. Therefore, the old arguments about risk and reward traditionally deployed by those seeking to justify growing chief executive pay packets cannot be sustained.
Stephen Overell
Cities gear up in ‘battle for distinctiveness’
Monday, 08 October 2007
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A new paper from The Work Foundation today says that in ‘distinctiveness’ - the discovery of specialisms and characteristics that help cities build and sustain a cohesive identity - an alternative strategy to the apparent homogenisation of Britain’s towns and high streets is opening up.
Stephen Overell
Work is ‘cure as well as cause’ of major workplace illnesses
Friday, 07 September 2007
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'Musculoskeletal disorders’ (MSDs) - an umbrella term that covers over 200 different ailments including arthritis, back pain and damage to joints, muscles and tendons - affect twice as many people as ‘stress’, account for up to a third of all GP consultations, cause 9.5 million lost working days, and cost society £7.4bn a year*.
Stephen Overell
Report hails economic vitality of Britain's creative industries
Monday, 25 June 2007
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The value of Britain’s flourishing creative industries to the economy is now broadly comparable to that of the financial services sector, a new report says today. But without careful policy-making, targeted public investment and a supportive institutional architecture, the flow of creativity worth commercialising may begin to slow, it warns.
Stephen Overell
'Britain needs ‘knowledge economy policy’
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
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Gordon Brown should use the opportunity of the Comprehensive Spending Review this summer to set out an economic policy that will enable Britain to flourish in the knowledge economy, The Work Foundation says today.
Stephen Overell
The Future of Welfare Reform
Monday, 12 February 2007
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Commenting on today's speech by Jim Murphy MP, minister of state for employment and welfare reform, Will Hutton, chief executive of The Work Foundation said:
Stephen Overell
Employment law not the only route to justice at work
Friday, 12 January 2007
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The cause of justice at work will not be best served by introducing any new employment laws in the near future. Instead, what is needed is a new policy initiative aiming to encourage employers both to comply with existing laws and actively pursue a fairness at work agenda.
Stephen Overell
CEOs should not be paid for risks they do not bear
Friday, 22 December 2006
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Being a chief executive of a major company is a relatively low-risk job in comparison with many other sorts of work, a new paper argues. Therefore, the old arguments about risk and reward traditionally deployed by those seeking to justify growing chief executive pay packets cannot be sustained.
Stephen Overell
Managers and professionals dominate new job growth
Thursday, 14 December 2006
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Relatively well-paying managerial, professional and semi-professional type jobs have grown faster than any other sort of work in the UK over the last decade, a new analysis from The Work Foundation reveals.
Stephen Overell
Public sector work-life balance is more rhetoric than reality
Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Employers in the public sector ‘talk the talk’ on work-life balance, but have only low levels of commitment to changing standard working patterns in practice – and in some cases deliberately block people from flexible working or grant requests only to selected favourites
Stephen Overell
UK Competitiveness Index
Monday, 13 November 2006
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North-south divide is beginning to close
The first compelling evidence that the north-south divide that has marred British economic life for a generation is beginning to close is published today.
Stephen Overell
Low investment limits the knowledge economy dividend, report finds
Thursday, 12 October 2006
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European countries together have a ‘knowledge economy’ that is as big if not bigger than that of the US, with over 40 per cent of workers employed in knowledge-based industries*. But the continent has not matched the US in terms of economic growth and productivity largely because it has not invested as much in its knowledge base and may be suffering a slowdown in technological progress as a result.
Stephen Overell
New study exposes flexibility myths
Monday, 12 June 2006
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The widespread conviction that low levels of employment regulation and weak trade unions are the cause of Britain’s good record at creating jobs and keeping unemployment down is today exposed as a myth in a new study by The Work Foundation
Stephen Overell
Knowledge economy project
Friday, 28 April 2006
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Biggest ever research programme on the knowledge economy, led by The Work Foundation receives Chancellor Gordon Brown’s support
Stephen Overell
Peugeot Citroen closure
Sunday, 02 April 2006
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Peugeot Citroen closure will be as devastating for redundant workforce as Longbridge warns The Work Foundation
Stephen Overell
Healthy work: productive workplaces report
Friday, 30 December 2005
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In a report published on 30 December 2005, 'Healthy Work: Productive Workplaces', The Work Foundation has joined with the London Health Commission to warn that Government strategy on health and work lacks cohesion and will have little impact on the real issues affecting health and productivity.
Stephen Overell
British Business DNA Decoded
Tuesday, 19 July 2005
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The Work Foundation today (19 July 2005) launched the findings of its year long investigation into how the UK's companies could be more productive.
Stephen Overell