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The transatlantic gulf in executive pay
- 10 Apr 2024
Should UK company bosses be paid more like their US counterparts? Concerned about their ability to attract and retain talent and Britain’s corporate competitiveness, many boards and investors are now increasingly willing to benchmark executive pay against their higher-earning transatlantic peers. After years of sidestepping this prickly issue, this is a marked shift in approach.
'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?
CEO turnover: Cross-country effects
- 28 Feb 2024
Chief executive officers (CEOs) are considered critically important to the functioning of a corporation, providing the key leadership role for the company's operations. Just as important is the corporate board that determines whether to keep or dismiss the CEO. The authors sought to understand important aspects of the board's contracting and monitoring processes, through which culture may affect CEO turnover.
New jobs, green jobs: Planet-friendly roles dominate hiring
- 21 Feb 2024
In sectors from energy to construction and transport, government programmes such as the US Inflation Reduction Act, and the rise of ESG investment, are accelerating work towards net zero targets, and demand for people to do it. Green jobs, defined as roles focused on sustainability and environmentally-friendly activities, now make up a third of postings in the UK.
UK recruiters register sharp rise in jobseekers as employers cut back
- 17 Jan 2024
The growing pool of jobseekers reflects the growing trend of workforce restructuring and redundancy elimination across UK businesses. Employers are now tasked with raising offers to secure qualified jobseekers.
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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.
Hit the snooze button: it’s good for you
- 6 Dec 2023
Getting up to exercise at 4am like a CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be — the real health benefits are for later risers.
Wanted: in-house legal leaders who can interpret world events
- 8 Nov 2023
Companies seek chief legal officers with an ability to assess geopolitical risk.
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
Automated stress detection might not be the office panacea it appears to be
- 13 Sep 2023
New technology intended for self-management could open the door to surveillance
‘The flattening’: tech sector calls time on middle managers
- 30 Aug 2023
Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap
Happy staff often make for satisfied shareholders, study finds
- 9 Aug 2023
Research supports business case for investing in worker wellbeing
FT Executive Education Rankings 2023: Europe on top
- 26 Jul 2023
European providers dominate the open-enrolment and custom course tables — with striking exceptions
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.”
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?
Finance staff ignoring mandatory office attendance demands, report suggests
- 28 Feb 2023
Workers in financial services are often ignoring company rules on the number of days they should be in the office, according to a report sponsored by some of the UK’s largest financial institutions.
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.