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'Why are women still being cast off the glass cliff?
- 3 Apr 2024
The glass cliff describes the way women are deemed more likely to break through the glass ceiling and rise to a top job when things are dire, the risk of failure is high and men are less interested in the gig. Nearly 20 years after the so-called glass cliff was first identified, is the problem just as bad as ever?
FinecoBank takes on Italy’s women-in-workforce challenge
- 10 Jan 2024
Getting women into the workforce, and keeping them in the labour market through their child-rearing years, is a huge challenge for Italy, which has Europe’s lowest female labour force participation rate. Italy’s top company in the FT-Statista list of Diversity Leaders, strives to create an inclusive workplace in which all staff can juggle the demands of work and family.
What we get wrong about ageing and work
- 11 Oct 2023
There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts
Happy staff often make for satisfied shareholders, study finds
- 9 Aug 2023
Research supports business case for investing in worker wellbeing
The benefits of revealing neurodiversity in the workplace
- 7 Jun 2023
Michael Queenan used to retreat to his bed for the weekend at least once a month. “I was just physically and emotionally exhausted all of the time,” says the chief executive and co-founder of Nephos Technologies, a UK-based data services company. “It just got worse and worse and worse.”
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Women struggle to close corporate America’s gender gap
- 11 May 2023
American corporations held the first diversity sessions in the late 1960s, instructing leaders who were overwhelmingly white and male on how to manage the workplace after the US made it illegal to discriminate against employees based on sex or race.
Women have raced into the boardroom, but now comes the hard part
- 4 Apr 2023
What might an insurer, a housebuilder and two water companies have in common in early 21st-century Britain?
Lack of female executives in UK boardrooms ‘appalling’, survey finds
- 21 Feb 2023
British companies are guilty of an “appalling” shortfall of women in executive roles, according to a FTSE board report from Cranfield University and EY.
Communication is a ‘leaky process’
- 7 Feb 2023
You have probably heard of radical candour, or radical honesty, as a way to change the way things are done at work. But are you aware of “radical rest”? As we head towards the end of another exhausting year, rest is likely to become a hot commodity in workplaces.
Authenticity at work doesn’t look the same for everyone
- 24 Jan 2023
I lost my voice last week, which threw the Working It podcast schedule into disarray and confined me to bed.
‘Boundary-setting’ is a fancy way to just say no — but it works
- 10 Jan 2023
A boundary used to mean the fence around your garden. A personal boundary, meanwhile, was the sizeable gap you deliberately left between your chair and that of the office creep at the drunken team meal.
Greater employee ownership can make work fairer
- 15 Nov 2022
My story used to be a familiar one. I’m a first-generation college graduate from a hardworking, blue-collar family.
The age taboo in workplaces means we miss out on talent
- 11 Oct 2022
Would you apply for a job which requires you to be “dynamic” or a “digital native”? If you’re over 40, it might not be worth bothering.
Where have all the older workers gone and will they ever come back?
- 20 Sep 2022
Not that long ago I found myself at a lunch in the middle of London where a well known British business figure said something unexpected about the menace of rising inflation.
The perils of overlooking women of a certain age
- 6 Sep 2022
Around this time last year, a British woman named Nicky Clark was getting ready to do something that middle-aged women did in droves during the pandemic: quit.
Sibling rivalries, spousal squabbles — it’s great to be back in the office
- 30 Aug 2022
After almost two years of working at home with my family, it’s good to finally spend quality time with my office relatives.
The worry of what to wear to work is shifting
- 7 Jun 2022
If you were about to head off to your first in-person business conference in two years, what would you want to know?
Smart people understand why it pays to swear at work
- 24 Sep 2019
Researchers say people who swear can seem more honest, credible and persuasive
Agile working: put your faith in the (female) workforce and you’ll get productivity back in spades.
- 13 May 2017
Agile working: put your faith in the (female) workforce and you’ll get productivity back in spades.
