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09/09/2026

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 ...

09/09/2026

7 min

Bupa's presenteeism data: what ACAS rights and CIPD benchmarks mean for UK workplaces

More than half of UK workers have delayed seeking medical help because they did not want to take time off work. That is the central finding of the annual Bupa Wellbeing Index, which surveyed more than 8,000 adults and 500 business leaders across ...

09/09/2026

7 min

REC coalition challenges ERA 2025 guaranteed-hours rules for UK agency workers

Around 1.57 million people in the UK earn a living through temporary agency work, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the February to April 2026 quarter. A clause inside the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025), due to ...

09/09/2026

7 min

BRC's Opening Shift placement: the questions to put to your work coach

If you are aged 18 to 24, claiming Universal Credit, and running into job adverts that demand experience you have never been given a fair chance to acquire, Opening Shift may already be on your radar. Launched jointly by the British Retail ...

09/09/2026

7 min

Hussle survey: 70% of UK hybrid workers say their routine is making them more sedentary

New Hussle research finds that 70% of UK workers say their working routine increases sedentary behaviour, and 62% are worried about the long-term health impact of their job. The numbers land at a moment when hybrid working is no longer an ...

09/08/2026

6 min

Managers erode judgement by outsourcing thinking to AI

A research team led by the University of Bath's School of Management has published findings in the Academy of Management Review that should interest anyone who reports to, or is responsible for developing, managers in a British workplace. The ...

09/08/2026

8 min

Rehabs UK, ACAS and the Equality Act: your rights on substance use at work

A Bupa study found that 57% of UK employees have experienced difficulties with some form of addiction - a figure that cuts across sectors, salary bands and job titles. If you have poured a second drink to get through a brutal week, leaned on ...

09/08/2026

7 min

Centre for Ageing Better's NETER metric exposes the 2.9 million older workers UK hiring funnels filter out

Nearly 2.9 million people in the UK aged 50 to state pension age are neither working, training, in education nor retired. The Centre for Ageing Better has coined a term for this group: NETER. What makes the figure arresting is its scale relative ...

09/08/2026

8 min

UK workers waste 199m paid holiday days a year

Roughly 199 million days of paid statutory leave went uncollected by UK workers last year, according to research commissioned by private diagnostics provider Vista Health and published in summer 2026. The survey of 2,003 UK adults, conducted ...

09/08/2026

7 min

Hidden NEETs: The 300,000 Young Workers UK Hiring Teams Cannot See

A cohort of roughly 300,000 young people aged 18 to 24 sits entirely outside the UK welfare system: no benefit claim, no Jobcentre Plus contact, and no route into the government's flagship employment support schemes. According to the Institute ...

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