‘I felt like I was losing my mind’: how to keep your career on track during menopause
Should all workers get unhappiness leave? It beats awaydays, work-life balance seminars and company yoga
Emma Beddington
Batch cook, set fake deadlines – and delegate: how efficient people get stuff done
Sharing the Load
How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?
Myke Bartlett
April 2024
Nurses in England took an average of one week off sick for stress last year, data shows
Chronic workforce shortages have put nursing staff under unbearable pressure, says union chief
Burnout is not a disease, but a symptom of an unhealthy work culture
Letters: Schuyler Laparle saysthe goal should be to build a culture of work in which the practices that lead to unbearable stress are not tolerated.Plus a letter from Allie Kochert
Double or nothing: Australia’s first ‘job-sharing’ political candidates raise constitutional questions
Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock say they would split official duties and make joint decisions if elected to the seat of Higgins
March 2024
Compensate teachers in England for inability to work from home, report says
Research recommends bonus to help retain staff and make up for lack of hybrid working opportunities
Europe’s champion sitters: even the sporty Dutch are falling victim to ‘chair-use disorder’
Long hours spent at desks and sofas leads to 21,000 deaths a year in the Netherlands from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer
Is Spain’s late-night lifestyle a precious part of our culture – or should we be more like sensible Sweden?
María Ramírez
Burnt-out and taken for granted: Britain’s workers need upside-down management
James Timpson
Make coffee. Shower. Clean the loo. In an age of choice, rituals are the key to happiness
Tomiwa Owolade
February 2024
Public sector should embrace flexible working and trial four-day week
Letter: David Sinclair on the importance of helping employees, especially women, stay in work
Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial
Research shows 51% that took part permanently adopted the change, while 89% still operating policy one year on
I’m a boss – please ban me from out-of-hours emails and calls, and save me from myself
André Spicer
The future of work
Egypt’s economic woes lure digital nomads – but cast others out to sea
It’s ‘national sickie day’ – is ill-health holding back the UK economy?
January 2024
Does having babies really make women more productive? I felt as if I had been dismantled
Emma Beddington
Well done, all the new mothers who cram a full day’s work into their child’s nap time. But, writes Emma Beddington, let’s not pretend it’s easy
Pass notes
Resenteeism: when you hate your job – but you just can’t leave
During the Great Resignation, many unhappy workers decided to quit. Now a new word describes all those who couldn’t quite make the leap …
‘A shop can be your castle’: the surprising rewards of retail work
Working in retail can be dispiriting, but when the author Madeleine Gray took a job in a bookshop in her native Australia, she learned more about human kindness than she ever thought possible
