More than half (53%) of employees in the UK feel overworked, citing factors like “reaching their maximum capacity, being spread too thin, or stressing over the threat of additional work”, according to data.
There are "multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now", say scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released this week.
Kings Secure Technologies (KST), one of the UK’s largest independent security, fire and risk management businesses, has signed an agreement to acquire Norwich-based EFire.
Gender imbalances in access to employment and working conditions are greater than was thought and progress in reducing them has been disappointingly slow in the past two decades, states an International Labour Organization (ILO) briefing.
Despite 91% of women feeling confident in their performance at work compared with 81% of men, one in five women (25%) was not promoted in pay, benefits or position in 2022 compared with 22% of men.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called on the government to begin a “wholesale”’ review of workplace policies, across government bodies, to ensure they are inclusive of and supportive to women at every stage of their careers.
