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Measuring Labour Regulation: Worker protections around the world
This Data Commentary explains how the updated Centre for Business Research Labour Regulation Index provides a measure of the strength of worker protections in law in over 100 countries.
The four-day week and reducing working time
Digit researchers have explored how the four day week can be implemented practically and equitably – and by a broader range of industries.
Flexible working and the pressure to stay connected
This snapshot of flexible working in practice highlights a number of issues as official guidance is updated to support the implementation of flexible working policies.
Getting on top of work-email: A systematic review of 25 years of research to understand effective work-email activity
In the last 25 years, work-email activity has been studied across domains and disciplines. Yet, despite the abundance of research available, a comprehensive, unifying framework of how work-email activity positively impacts both well-being and work-performance outcomes has yet to emerge. This is a timely and significant concern; work-email is the [...]
A Four-Day Working Week: its Role in a Politics of Work
From a fringe idea with limited wider support, the goal of a four-day working week has moved into the spotlight in contemporary policy debates. Indeed, a growing number of businesses have agreed to pilot a four-day working week. This article examines what the turn to this goal means for [...]
What impact did Furlough Policies have on Workers’ Mental Health?
Ioulia Bessa on new research comparing the wellbeing of those who experienced reduced working hours, or who stopped work completely, with those who continued to work full-time.
How to make automation work for workers
David Spencer argues that if workers and society rather than big tech companies such as Amazon are to benefit from automation, they need to have a larger influence and stake in it.
Automation and Well-Being: Bridging the Gap between Economics and Business Ethics
Some economists now predict that technology will eliminate many millions of jobs and lead to a future without work. Much debate focuses on the accuracy of such a prediction—whether, or at what rate, jobs will disappear. But there is a wider question raised by this prediction, namely the merits [...]