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11/03/2026

Workplace wellbeing: 43% of UK full-time workers feel drained

Britain's full-time workforce is not short of wellbeing programmes. It is short of knowing they exist. The Mental Wealth Index 2026, conducted by YouGov for Wisdom Wellbeing across 4,249 GB adults including approximately 1,767 full-time workers ...

10/30/2026

8 min

England and Wales bank holidays 2027: confirmed dates, Working Time Regulations and your leave rights

England and Wales have 8 bank holidays in 2027, all falling on weekdays , matching the total from 2026. The dates are already confirmed: they rest on Schedule 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, common-law status (for Good Friday ...

10/27/2026

9 min

AI at work: 84% of UK bosses confident, only 41% of staff agree

A Microsoft survey of 5,000 UK employees and 1,000 senior business leaders has exposed a 41-percentage-point confidence gap that sits at the heart of the UK's AI moment. Nine in ten leaders expect AI to benefit British society within five years; ...

10/06/2026

6 min

DWP neurodiversity report: Universal Design raises the bar for UK employers

The employment gap facing autistic people in the UK remains stubborn. In 2024/25, only 34% of disabled people with autism were in work, compared with 55% of disabled people overall. A new report from the government's Expert Academic Panel on ...

10/05/2026

6 min

UK AI tech salaries jump 20% as skills rift widens

Specialists who can deploy AI systems into production, architect data platforms or defend them against attack hold a negotiating position in the UK technology labour market that has strengthened considerably over the past twelve months. Those ...

09/17/2026

7 min

UK workers take 7 months to feel productive in a new job

Seven months and counting. New research from HBHR, an AI-powered workforce management platform, finds that UK workers take an average of 7.3 months to feel fully settled and productive in a new role. That figure sits against a backdrop the ...

09/17/2026

7 min

Preston's AI bootcamp for Neets: what ONS data and apprenticeship law say you should check first

If you are between 16 and 24, out of work and not in any form of study or training, a government-funded experiment in Preston is actively looking for people like you. A three-week AI bootcamp running at the Vault community hub in Lancashire is ...

09/16/2026

9 min

King's paternity review: six paid weeks could add £2.68bn to the UK economy

In Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency, roughly half of all fathers cannot afford to take the two weeks of paternity leave the state currently offers them. That is not a political projection; it is the arithmetic of Statutory Paternity Pay ...

09/16/2026

7 min

Low Pay Commission's Dutch dilemma: UK youth minimum wage at a crossroads

The government is reconsidering one of Labour's most visible pledges to young workers, and the Low Pay Commission's autumn recommendation has become the hinge point. Labour's 2024 manifesto committed to abolishing the age bands that permit ...

09/09/2026

7 min

Common Ground polling finds one in eight British workers changes their accent at work

Roughly 1 in 8 British workers have changed the way they speak to sound more professional at work, according to a poll of 3,384 adults in Great Britain commissioned by campaigning consultancy Common Ground and carried out by More in Common ...

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