The Work Foundation's media office exists both to disseminate our material and to respond to a wide variety of enquiries to do with the nature of contemporary working life. We have subject experts in many fields - from flexible working and the future of work through to how to manage performance in organisations - and we are frequently called on to provide commentators to media outlets and at events.
UK’s ‘special relationship’ with India needs to be nurtured
Sunday, 21 September 2008
In a new report from research consultancy The Work Foundation, "The UK and India: the other ‘special relationship’?" the government is urged to do more to develop the special relationship between the UK and India.
Stephen Overell
More ‘good work’ needed to boost jobs and cut child poverty
Thursday, 18 September 2008
A package of policies designed to create more ‘good jobs’ is urged today in a new report. The quality of employment has an impact on health, life expectancy and life chances and government cannot make serious progress towards the reduction of health inequalities unless it has policies to improve job quality for the most disadvantaged. Work is better for health and life expectancy than worklessness, but it is only really good for us if it is ‘good work’, the report argues.
Stephen Overell
The Work Foundation announces new work programmes
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
The Work Foundation today announces changes to its structure and focus to consolidate its position as the leading research and consultancy organisation specializing in work in the UK and Europe.
Stephen Overell
Gap widening between ‘resurgent’ and ‘stuck cities’
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
The Work Foundation today releases a league table of the productivity of different cities across the UK that reveals wide and growing disparities between ‘resurgent’ cities and those that appear to be ‘stuck’.
Stephen Overell
Better management is the key to tackling workers’ stress
Monday, 16 June 2008
The combination of demanding, complex jobs and low levels of support from managers and colleagues is driving the high prevalence of stress among workers, The Work Foundation says today. When job intensity is coupled with inadequate support and few opportunities for employees to progress in their careers, symptoms such as sleeping problems, anxiety, irritability and stress are a likely result.
Stephen Overell
UK must attract more highly skilled migrant workers
Monday, 02 June 2008
The UK will need to attract more highly skilled workers from abroad - both from the European Union and outside it - in order to secure the future of high technology, ‘knowledge intensive’ industries in an increasingly global world, a new report finds today.
Stephen Overell
How cities can make the most of collaboration projects?
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The government risks creating so many partnership programmes among local authorities that the real benefits of collaboration — co-ordination, simplification, and more voice and influence - become undermined, a new report says today.
Steve Overell
'Meaningful work': what it is and why it's growing
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
The Work Foundation today publishes a new essay that asks what is ‘meaningful work’, why more people seem to be seeking it, and what employers can do to make work more meaningful?
Stephen Overell