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SMEs and the mental health challenge
17 May 2023To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Sally Wilson highlights the challenge of SMEs sufficiently supporting the mental health of their staff and considers that instead of waiting for government initiatives to reach them, business owners should consider low-cost, high-quality options that improve the management and prevention of health issues at work.
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May Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
16 May 2023The stand-out figure in today’s data is another sharp increase in the number of people off work with long-term health conditions, up by nearly a hundred thousand in the last quarter to over 2.5 million people.
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Flexible working: man’s new best friend?
15 May 2023To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Abbie Winton and Astrid Allen consider the role that flexible working could play in supporting men living more balanced lives, and how organisations should consider enabling more men to work flexibly to support improved wellbeing.
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Shaping a fairer world of work: reflections from the IES Annual Conference
9 May 2023Reflecting on the recent IES Annual Conference, Dan Lucy highlights the need for clearly articulated principles, evidence-based research and an informed strategy to effectively build a better and fairer future of work.
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Celebrating the first birthday of the IES Trials Unit
27 Apr 2023A summary of the latest activities of the IES Trials Unit
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IPA and IES open a new chapter
27 Apr 2023The Involvement & Participation Association (IPA) and Institute for Employment Studies (IES) are delighted to announce that the two organisations will merge from 1st May. The move will see the IPA team join IES, while continuing to retain their operational independence.
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Bullying in the workplace: why zero tolerance needs to be practised, not just preached
21 Apr 2023With allegations of workplace bullying once again hitting the headlines, Stephen Bevan details why it is always best to call out this kind of behaviour with senior colleagues, no matter what short term discomfort may result.
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IES is proud to announce publication of the Health-led Employment Trials Evaluation
20 Apr 2023Becci Newton celebrates the publication of the Health-led Employment Trials Evaluation and details a selection of key achievements from leading one of the largest trials to date of individual placement and support (IPS).
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April Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
18 Apr 2023Today’s figures continue the trend of gradual improvement that we’ve seen over the last couple of months. But progress in the labour market is painfully slow.
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An Early Years revolution? Time to focus on high-quality early education
17 Apr 2023With proposed reforms to Early Years childcare and an extension of free childcare hours scheduled for 2024, Anneka Dawson and Alexandra Nancarrow detail several trials and evaluation programmes that IES is running in Early Years and call for a focus on high quality early education not just childcare.