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  • Planning and preparing for later life: A social survey feasibility study

    Planning and preparing for later life: A social survey feasibility study

    Collins D, Toomse-Smith M, Comanaru R, Fenton C, Gloster R, Silcock D, Dodd T | Feb 2019 | Department for Work and Pensions

    What are the most appropriate and cost-effective means to get policy-relevant evidence on people’s behaviours and attitudes towards planning and preparation for later in life?

  • 2019: a totally rewarding year?

    2019: a totally rewarding year?

    IES Perspectives on HR 2019

    Brown D | Jan 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

    What can employers and policymakers do to make total rewards a reality for UK employees? In this paper, IES head of HR consultancy, Duncan Brown, analyses trends in total rewards, UK workplaces and the wider economy to consider the state of play on total rewards in UK organisations.

  • Improving access for the most able but least likely: Evaluation of the Realising Opportunities Programme

    Improving access for the most able but least likely: Evaluation of the Realising Opportunities Programme

    Williams M, Mellors-Bourne R | Jan 2019 | Realising Opportunities

    This report presents findings from our evaluation of the Realising Opportunities (RO) programme. RO is a programme for Year 12/13 students with good academic attainment but from disadvantaged backgrounds.

  • Ethnicity pay reporting: consultation response

    Ethnicity pay reporting: consultation response

    Response from the Institute for Employment Studies, January 2019

    Jan 2019 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Our response to the UK Government's consultation on the introduction of mandatory publication of ethnicity employment and pay gap information.

  • Thinking ahead

    Thinking ahead: A review of support provided by employers to help staff plan for their future

    Gloster R, Edwards M, Spiegelhalter K, Newton B, Hirsh W | Sep 2018 | Centre for Ageing Better

    This report produced by IES on behalf of the Centre for Ageing Better and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation explores what large employers are doing to support employees in their mid-life through to retirement.

  • Building the business case for employee financial wellbeing

    Building the business case for employee financial wellbeing

    IES Perspectives on HR 2018

    Rickard C | Aug 2018 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper considers how organisations can build the business case for employee financial wellbeing and offers practical guidance to HR and senior leaders in this area.

  • Response to consultation on measures to increase transparency in the UK labour market. Submission from the Institute for Employment Studies, May 2018

    Response to consultation on measures to increase transparency in the UK labour market

    Submission from the Institute for Employment Studies, May 2018

    Jun 2018 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper contains our response to the government's consultation on measures to increase transparency in the labour market, which sought views on the recommendations in Matthew Taylor's Review of Modern Working Practices.

  • Helping employers support their working carers

    Helping employers support their working carers

    Findings and recommendations

    May 2018 | Simply Health/The Work Foundation

    This report published by Simply Health and the Work Foundation is the result of discussions held at a policy workshop held in 2017. IES' senior research fellow, Sally Wilson, fed in to the workshop, which considered the experiences of working carers and how employers and policymakers could offer support to this section of the UK labour market.

  • Rapid evidence assessment: patents' decisions about returning to work and child caring responsibilities

    Rapid evidence assessment: parents' decisions about returning to work and child caring responsibilities

    Research review

    Newton B, Tamkin P, Gloster R, Cox A, Everett C, Cotton J | May 2018 | Department for Education

    On behalf of the Government Equalities Office, IES conducted a rapid evidence assessment in 2017 of parents' decisions on returning to work. This report contains the findings of the REA, published by the Department for Education.

  • Slides: Managing across generations: The leadership challenge

    Scholefield M | May 2018 | Cullen Scholefield

    Maureen Scholefield's slides from IES HR Directors' Retreat 2018, 'Managing across the generations', May 2018.