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The Importance Of Connecting RTO Strategies With DEI To Meet The Needs Of Diverse Demographics

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Employee Resource Groups should be actively involved in shaping return-to-office policies, ensuring they meet the distinct needs of various demographics within the workforce and maintaining inclusivity. Upcoming Seramount research through the CDO Collaborative focuses on generational differences in the workplace.

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Members of European Parliament back charter to ‘revolutionise workplace wellbeing’

Workplace Insight

The European Charter for Digital Workplace Wellbeing has been signed by a group of 31 MEPs, including MEP Drago? Pîslaru, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. And, in a February 2023 survey of 10,243 global workers by US think-tank Future Forum, 42 percent reported burnout.

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Hefty fine for Amazon has implications for employee surveillance policy

Workplace Insight

The regulator was particularly concerned with employee surveillance practices that it deemed to be at odds with workers’ rights in relation to health and safety, as well as regarding the protection of their personal and private lives. Whole-workplace monitoring could certainly bolster trade unions and spur on industrial action.

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Sick pay reform should encourage people back into work, government claims

Workplace Insight

A parliamentary committee of MPs has called for a ‘long-overdue’ boost to statutory sick pay (SSP), emphasising the need to strike a delicate balance between workers’ wellbeing and employers’ financial constraints. The cross-party committee contends that all workers, regardless of income, should be eligible for SSP.

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New study will explore the impact of economic turmoil on workplace experience

Workplace Insight

People’s workplace experience in the wake of recent economic upheavals is to be investigated as part of a major new survey led by Cardiff University and funded mainly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Even so, insecurity had not disappeared, with 1.7 This figure was 2.5

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Menopause gift bags and monitoring toilet breaks: why are employers getting menopause support so wrong?

Workplace Insight

Despite calls for menopause to be included in the list of protected characteristics by campaigning groups and the women and equalities committee, the government confirmed last year that this would not be introduced.

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UK built environment is woefully under-prepared for climate change

Workplace Insight

On five out of seven critical climate resilience priorities, UKGBC’s scorecard finds that the Government policies in its Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) are insufficient, flawed, or missing, placing millions of homes and buildings – and the lives of people occupying them – at serious risk of damage from climate-related disaster.