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Work-life balance

August 2023

  • Chef Aktar Islam

    New generation of UK chefs taking the heat out of the kitchen

  • Just Eat and Deliveroo employees delivering food.

    Tell us: how is your life affected by working in the UK’s gig economy?

  • Mature woman sitting on park bench looking up

    Don’t sweat that deadline; time-wasting can be time well spent

    Emma Wilkins
  • A WeWork logo is seen at an office in San Francisco, California

    WeWork has ‘substantial doubt’ it can stay in business

  • Flexible workspace provider IWG reports record revenues

  • Australians living longer but working in poor health in later life, research shows

  • I’m taking August off – and so are all of my staff. It’s the best decision we ever made

    Jo Hunter

July 2023

  • Office workers and other people relaxing in a park.

    Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week

  • An aerial view of Canary Wharf at dawn

    As HSBC quits and hybrid working stays, is this the end for Canary Wharf?

June 2023

  • An illustration of two women in office clothes running with an email symbol being passed between them like a baton in a relay race

    The future of work
    ‘She divorced me’: how to make job shares work – and why they can fail

  • Elevated view of students writing their GCSE exam

    How to teach teenagers to embrace uncertainty

  • Gillian Harvey

    The ‘work hard and you’ll get a good job’ mantra is no longer true – so what do I tell my kids?

    Gillian Harvey
  • A row of people working on computers in an office

    UK firms without flexible working ‘will struggle to hire in next five years’

May 2023

  • Owen Jones

    Britain isn’t a nation of slackers – we’re on the clock 24/7 and we deserve the ‘right to disconnect’

    Owen Jones
  • A calendar with a day ripped out

    ‘Can I just … rest?’: guilt, the four-day working week and what to do with the fifth day

  • Worker loads refuse lorry

    Bin crews to work four-day week as UK trials extend to public sector frontline

  • Woman using laptop and cell phone at the beach

    Labour planning ‘right to switch off’ for workers if it wins general election

April 2023

  • Person using a laptop

    ‘An undeniable success’: first UK council trial of four-day week set to be extended

    South Cambridgeshire council plans further 12 months of scheme plus pilot for refuse workers
  • Rear View Of Silhouette Woman Stretching Hands While Sitting On Bed At Home

    Pass notes
    The morning routine backlash: you can get up at 5am – but it won’t make you popular

    The 5-9 trend has been a viral sensation for a while, with its exhausting approach to self-improvement. Now lie-ins are back
  • Lots of workers in hi-vis vests amid conveyor belts and boxes in a vast warehouse

    The future of work
    Human values, as well as AI, must be at the core of the future of work

    Anna Thomas
    Automation too often erodes conditions and job quality creating anxiety and overwork. To build ‘good work’, we must invest in people as well as tech
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