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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 special report looks at the issue of trust in the workplace and finds that employers have emerged as an anchor of trust and stability. 78% of employees see their workplace as a safe space for debate and turn to it as a primary source of community, before their neighbours and religious organisations. Edelman argues that this gives rise to a new employer mandate – to leverage the powerful force of employees to restore societal trust from the inside out.
Slack’s new snapshot suggests that today’s workplace is centred around flexibility and that, without it, there is a high risk of employee attrition. It reports that fully in-office workers report lower employee experience scores compared to hybrid and full-time remote workers and that employees with rigid work schedules are three times more likely to look for a new job in the next year.
The CIPD’s annual benchmark of job quality offering insights to improve working lives. This year’s report examines the impact of COVID-19 on job quality and reveals work-life balance, health and well-being, job security and the rising cost of living are key issues for workers.
Vitality, in collaboration with CBI Economics, have surveyed c-suite executives on their experiences of hybrid working and combined the results with insights from 2,005 office workers to find out how UK businesses can support health and wellbeing in a hybrid working environment alongside implementing strategies for creating a healthier and more productive workforce. The report focuses on the importance of health and well-being to employee productivity and retention, the challenges of the diverse demands of a hybrid workforce and strategies for fostering a ‘Healthy Hybrid’ approach.
This Accenture Future of Work Study 2021 of more than 9,000 workers around the world discovered that most people want a hybrid model, where they sometimes work remotely and sometimes go onsite.
This report by Deloitte examines how new trends triggered by the global pandemic are shaping the nature of work, the workforce and the workplace as a whole.
Seven in ten (73%) workers would prefer to work from home some of the time according to this report.. The report looks at how organisations and workforces adapted and learned from working from home under the initial lockdown as part of a longitudinal eighteen-month study.
Upskilling the global workforce is key to stimulating the economic recovery from COVID-19, discussed in this new report from PwC and the World Economic Forum.
A new European Parliament study looks at how digital surveillance tools and "artificial intelligence" are changing the nature of work, the power of bosses and the rights of employees.
