Should the old bale out the young?

People over the age of 50 could be forced to pay over £300 more in national insurance each year in order to fund social care, under plans that have been branded a tax on getting old by Labour. Senior Tory MP Damian Green has proposed a major shake-up to funding for care, arguing that it […]

Capitalism will eat itself

George Monbiot says that in order to save the planet we must destroy capitalism. Fair enough; but if I were Mr Monbiot I wouldn’t worry too much about capitalism; it is already self-imploding. Go to the supermarket and robots have replaced humans, Amazon is replacing the high-street and the best jobs available for graduates are […]

Better Call Saul: workplace drama?

Do you watch Better Call Saul? It’s quite satisfying; to watch the current season (4), you log onto Netflix, click on ‘search’ and enter the letter ‘B’. The latest episode then appears. Anyway, some people are saying that this excellent programme is less about drugs and is, instead, more of workplace drama. Let’s have a […]

Mental health

MPs have recently been taking a small break from the swirling plughole of Brexit to debate mental health first aid in parliament. Research reveals that companies aren’t doing enough to tackle employee stress and mental wellbeing Less than a fifth (18%) of companies are taking steps to manage employee stress and mental health issues, according […]

What did we learn about the gender pay gap this year?

Well, firstly, that an awful lot of firms with 250+ employees, didn’t bother supplying their figures. And then that eight out of 10 British companies pay men more than women. The figures filed by thousands of businesses and public bodies at the deadline showed there has been negligible progress on closing the pay gap between […]

The internet has killed advertising

Gore Vidal once said: “Advertising is the only true art form left in the Twentieth Century.” It may have been true once, but the standard of advertising quality has plummeted dramatically in the 21st century. And one of the main reasons for that is the success of Facebook. The world of advertising was once populated […]

AI: A snooper’s charter

Dozens of UK business owners are using artificial intelligence to scrutinise staff behaviour, minute-to-minute, by harvesting data on who emails whom and when, who accesses and edits files and who meets whom and when. The actions of 130,000 people in the UK and abroad are being monitored in real-time by the Isaak system, which ranks […]

Don’t bother giving feedback

In their book, Nine Lies About Work, Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, make a startling claim, with implications far beyond the workplace: they argue that giving people feedback – in the sense of telling them what you think they’re doing right or wrong, and how to do it better – is never worthwhile. This runs […]

The destruction of Earth is a crime that should be prosecuted

Polly Higgins is a barrister who has devoted her life to creating an international crime of ecocide. This means serious damage to, or destruction of, the natural world and the Earth’s systems. It would make the people who commission it – such as chief executives and government ministers – criminally liable for the harm they […]

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Our Cause

We will fight for a world where everyone feels safe, valued, able to grow, and be inspired by their role and the organisation that they work for. And that starts with us…

cause-rotated-pink

Our Cause

We will fight for a world where everyone feels safe, valued, able to grow, and be inspired by their role and the organisation that they work for. And that starts with us…