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...Columnist Sarah O’Connor is not so sure, pointing to the difficult trade-offs policymakers tend not to dwell on. Some good news “Amsterdam shows that it is possible to stop HIV and Aids.”...
...The World of Work Columnist Sarah O’Connor delves into why people don’t just leave bad jobs....
...The World of Work Columnist Sarah O’Connor says the Labour party’s commitment to sectoral collective bargaining in the UK could bring positive changes to industrial relations....
...The World of Work Columnist Sarah O’Connor praises the effectiveness of the minimum wage in the UK and elsewhere as a policy instrument....
...Columnist Sarah O’Connor says the trend has had less impact than proponents hoped or critics feared, offering a handy lesson in the perils of performative policymaking....
...The World of Work Innovation without investment in people to put it into use won’t be enough to boost productivity, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor in praise of the “techies” who make companies more efficient...
...Columnist Sarah O’Connor says it’s time to relearn the lost art of leisure. Good chit-chat skills are a key tool of self-promotion in the office....
...Life expectancy is the simplest and most directly comparable, argues columnist Sarah O’Connor....
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...The ‘suitcase principle’: Like clothes in a suitcase, white-collar jobs seem to expand to fill the available time, whatever the progress of technology, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...The dream of working from anywhere that took off during the pandemic has collided with the realities of tax, immigration, cyber security and labour laws, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor....
...Columnist Sarah O’Connor argues that companies making a point about the use of human labour should also provide some detail of the pay and conditions under which those people worked....
...White-collar jobs seem to expand to fill the available time, whatever the progress of technology, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor....
...The narrative that declares some workers will become “losers” from AI and that governments must deal with the consequences is a dangerous one, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor....
...Hybrid work has improved working lives for many, not just the elite, argues columnist Sarah O’Connor, and that is progress we shouldn’t throw away....
...The World of Work Columnist Sarah O’Connor reports on the woeful state of labour market enforcement in the UK, whether it’s workers underpaid the minimum wage, missing holiday pay or failing to be enrolled...
...The transition to net zero carbon emissions was never going to be an easy win for workers, writes our colleague Sarah O’Connor....
...Experiments are key for more grown-up industrial relations: Sarah O’Connor has a look at the plans by Labour, the UK’s opposition party, to launch sectoral collective bargaining: “a system that is common...
...For the past 25 years or so, a lot of countries have gone big on the latter, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor, but forcing the unemployed into low-paid work isn’t a good solution to today’s labour market...
...We’re all secretaries now, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor.Three years after hybrid or remote working took off, do we know yet if it’s a drain or a boost to productivity?...
...Commercial seafarers might be the workforce that people rely on the most but think about the least, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor....
...Russia said it would extend its existing 500,000 b/d cut until the end of the year....
...Columnist Sarah O’Connor offers a practical solution: employ occupational therapists, and lots of them....
...It’s possible to hate your job but still love your work, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor, or as one health worker puts it: “We absolutely love what we do but have been broken by the lack of infrastructure...
...The World of Work Work may have become physically less perilous but it seems to have become more psychologically dangerous, writes columnist Sarah O’Connor....
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