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.
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
Knowledge economy programme – new report published
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
The Work Foundation today publishes a report outlining its research thus far into the knowledge economy, 18 months into a three-year, £1.5 million research programme which will conclude in April 2009.
Stephen Overell