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- Neil Thompson’s Lesson for Living – Don’t confuse experience with learning
It is commonly assumed that the more experience a person has, the more learning they will have done, and thus the more they will have to offer, but it’s important to realise that this is a very unsafe assumption to…
- Why UK doctors are doling out ‘social prescriptions’ to treat mental health
Family physicians in Britain are increasingly prescribing art classes, gardening clubs and walking groups — as an alternative to pills — to patients with mental health challenges. The practice, known as social prescribing, is covered by the U.K.’s National Health Service or NHS and is geared toward…
- Eldercare is the new frontier of work-family balance
Eldercare is a growing workplace issue as the numbers of workers caring for an elderly family member rises. Carers UK reports that there are three million working carers, representing one in eight in the workplace; a significant proportion of which…
- How social supermarkets are filling a gap in austerity Britain
Social supermarkets have emerged in Britain in the past five years as a response to food poverty and food waste. These non-charitable initiatives sell food “surplus” to people on low incomes at heavily discounted prices, and provide social support.In new research,…
- UK Working Lives: The CIPD’s first comprehensive survey of the UK workforce under our new Job Quality Index
A quality job. What’s not to like? But what do we mean by ‘quality’ and how can we measure it appropriately so it can be improved? The CIPD has conducted a detailed and extensive survey of approximately 6,000 workers across…
