Parents ‘penalised’ for working part time, with long hours culture now the norm
The UK’s working parents are penalised for working part-time and suffer from poorly-designed jobs that force them to work extra hours, according to a major new study. The 2019 Modern Families Index, published by Working Families and Bright Horizons, reveals that parents working part time – most of whom are women – have just a 21% […]
UK salary levels hit four-year high
Salaries are at an all-time high across the UK, with employees in South West England among those benefitting most. The data from Adzuna says the only UK region that did not experience an increase was Wales, which saw a salary decrease of 0.5 per cent over the past year. That’s in contrast to South West […]
88% of full-time employees are ‘happy at work’
A new study has found that 88% of full-time employees are happy at work, with 71% of respondents reporting that they were “mostly happy,” and 17% describing themselves as “elated”. The study, by collaborative work management platform Wrike and commissioned by Atomic Research, was carried out in the USA, UK, France and Germany and explored […]
