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Work-life balance
August 2023
New generation of UK chefs taking the heat out of the kitchen
Tell us: how is your life affected by working in the UK’s gig economy?
Don’t sweat that deadline; time-wasting can be time well spent
Emma Wilkins
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
Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week
As HSBC quits and hybrid working stays, is this the end for Canary Wharf?
June 2023
The future of work
‘She divorced me’: how to make job shares work – and why they can fail
How to teach teenagers to embrace uncertainty
The ‘work hard and you’ll get a good job’ mantra is no longer true – so what do I tell my kids?
Gillian Harvey
UK firms without flexible working ‘will struggle to hire in next five years’
May 2023
Britain isn’t a nation of slackers – we’re on the clock 24/7 and we deserve the ‘right to disconnect’
Owen Jones
‘Can I just … rest?’: guilt, the four-day working week and what to do with the fifth day
Bin crews to work four-day week as UK trials extend to public sector frontline
Labour planning ‘right to switch off’ for workers if it wins general election
April 2023
‘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
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
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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