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This roundtable discussion looked at the evolving relationship between employers and their people and explored emerging challenges and opportunities for employers as they take steps to link sustainability and a conscious approach to environmental issues to people strategy.
This roundtable discussion explored the trends driving increased flexibility in the workplace and considered a variety of different approaches to flexible working, with a spotlight on the four-day week.
Now in its third year, Deloitte's Women @ Work: A Global Outlook offers some glimpses of real improvement. Rates of burnout have dropped. Non-inclusive behaviors have declined. And women are reporting more positive experiences with hybrid work. But despite some improvements over the past year, many women are still not getting what they want or need from their employers.
This House of Commons Committee report provides an interesting assessment of the current UK labour market, including the impact of AI, automation and an ageing population.
This new report by Ius Laboris considers recent demographic trends and how employers can respond to declining fertility rates, including the introduction of fertility policies.
Professor Wolfgang Lutz founder of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and all-round expert on demographics, discusses with us the issue of low birthrate in various countries across the world and the possible impacts on the workplaces of the future.
This roundtable discussion explored the reasons behind the skills shortage and the barriers to attracting and retaining the best people.
The deep and rapid changes in the world of work driven by the digital and green transformations as well as population ageing have been associated with greater job instability, with potential costs for companies, workers and society. The unprecedented labour and skill shortages that emerged during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic have raised further the importance of developing and retaining talent. In the context of a more age-diverse workforce, addressing this challenge will require better working conditions, greater investments in training and tackling difficulties in reconciling work with health issues and caring responsibilities. This report presents evidence on recent trends in job tenure and employee turnover, how they have changed due to the COVID-19 shock and sheds light on why employees quit their jobs. It identifies key employer and public policies that can support increased employment retention through better job quality, health at the workplace, and training and skills.
To close America’s chronic middle skills gap, U.S. employers have to partner much more actively than in the past with local community colleges. Due to waves of disruptive automation, the nature of middle skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum.
Surveys of educators (pdf) and employers (pdf) reveal the disconnect behind this partnership’s underperformance and underscore the need for businesses to take the lead in making it more relevant and effective in three areas: training and education aligned with industry needs, commitments to hire community college students, and sharing of data on the supply and demand for talent.
This new report by the Institute for Gender and the Economy looks at how remote work can impact the pursuit of equality. It finds that remote and hybrid work models have been associated with career penalties, work-family conflict, higher stress and other mental health challenges – particularly for those who already experience inequality - and sets out some key implications for the future of work.
According to McKinsey, women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rate we’ve ever seen. Their new research suggests we are in a ‘great breakup’ with women demanding more from work and leaving companies in unprecedented numbers to get it. If companies don’t act, they risk losing not only their current women leaders, but the next generation as well.
