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In a crisis, community-minded companies represent a kinder face of capitalism. Photograph: Getty Images/Cultura RF

Family businesses are welcome winners in the pandemic

Pilita Clark
January 25, 2021

Pilita Clark: They embody the best of corporate behaviour by thinking long term

Research published by Laya Healthcare in September showed 39 per cent of Irish workers were struggling with everyday life. Photograph: iStock

6:21 Pandemic-induced ‘brain fog’ is result of cognitive overload

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Olive Keogh
December 18, 2020

New working environment may be mentally tiring as we can do fewer things on autopilot

“Priority overload is one of six patterns of team dysfunction.”

‘Tis the season of ‘priority overload’

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Andrew Hill
December 18, 2020

Teamwork should ease burden but pressure to collaborate can increase intensity of work

Balance for Better Business co-chairs Brid Horan and Gary Kennedy. The organisation’s report found that a target for all publicly quoted companies to have at least one woman on their senior leadership team by the end of 2020 will be missed. File photograph: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

2:02 All Iseq executive directors appointed over 18-month period were men

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Laura Slattery
December 16, 2020

Rate of female board appointees has slowed down, says Balance for Better Business group

A written ministerial statement on Tuesday said there was no evidence unconscious bias training changed attitudes and so it would be scrapped. File photograph: Stockphoto/Getty

Unconscious bias training for UK civil servants to be scrapped

Work
December 15, 2020

Academic who challenged value of training says government should fund alternative model

Jobs in the food and accommodation sectors are highlighted in the ESRI report as at risk.

Non-Irish more likely to lose jobs and contract Covid – ESRI

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Colin Gleeson
December 15, 2020

Reports find that east European nationals experienced a sharper fall in employment

The security man said he was sent the video by a friend and that he didn’t check it before he tried to send it on. File image: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Dismissal of security man for trying to share alleged child abuse video ‘too severe’ - WRC

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Gordon Deegan
December 14, 2020

Staff member said he thought the naked female in the video was ‘the legal age’

In a year of far too little cheer, anything that lifts a spirit here and there is welcome. File photograph: Getty

4:47 Pilita Clark: Do not knock virtual Christmas parties until you try one

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Pilita Clark
December 14, 2020

‘There was widespread agreement that not having to rush for the Tube was an advantage’

Workvivo co-founders Joe Lennon, chief technology officer (left) and chief executive John Goulding.

Covid-19: Companies turn to experts for help with staff engagement

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Olive Keogh
December 11, 2020

Remote working makes it tougher for employees to feel a sense of community

Caoimhe Forde, originally from Leixlip, moved to New York in August 2011.

‘I’m always amazed by how many people want to learn Irish in New York’

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Barbara McCarthy
December 11, 2020

Wild Geese: Caoimhe Forde is an Irish language teacher in New York

Matrix Recruitment’s latest workplace equality survey was conducted in November among 1,414 adults working in a range of industries. Photograph: iStock

Staff fear working remotely will damage career prospects – survey

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Eoin Burke-Kennedy
December 9, 2020

Report by Matrix Recruitment finds pandemic has created workplace imbalances

The Supreme Court will give judgment on a later date on a significant ‘test’ case appeal concerning the constitutionality of new procedures for the resolution of workplace disputes.

Supreme Court to rule later on constitutionality of workplace disputes process

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Mary Carolan
December 7, 2020

Case centres on administration of justice which is reserved to judges

More open-plan space could be transformed into something else most offices lack: ultra-quiet areas where people can easily work uninterrupted for hours at a time

When we do go back to the office, what should that office look like?

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Pilita Clark
December 7, 2020

Pilita Clark: A hybrid way of working could end much of what was hopeless in open-plan offices

Kerri McCrea with two of her elephants, Mae Doom and Too Meh.

The Tyrone woman caring for elephants in rural Thailand

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Deirdre McQuillan
December 4, 2020

Wild Geese: Kerri McCrea, founder of Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary, Thailand

Due to Covid pandemic, organisations are in danger of haemorrhaging knowledge without even being aware of it.

Covid taking a toll on companies’ reservoir of workplace knowledge

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Olive Keogh
December 4, 2020

Innovation suffering under remote working but not productivity, according to new study

While many jobs being done remotely in can move offshore, shared language, culture and time zones will continue to matter

Remote working works but there will be a price to pay

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Sarah O'Connor
December 4, 2020

The confluence of globalisation and casualisation will have big consequences for some workers

The evidence consistently shows that strong traditional sanction-based enforcement is critical to environmental protection. File photograph: Getty

6:30 Opinion: Make it easier to comply with green regulations, than not

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Bernadette Power
December 4, 2020

Transparency and trust key as regulators encourage companies to improve compliance

The Attorney General, Paul Gallagher, has urged the Supreme Court to reject a significant challenge to the constitutionality of new procedures for the resolution of workplace disputes.

Attorney General says workplace resolution case raises ‘profound issues’

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Mary Carolan
December 2, 2020

Supreme Court told a finding of unconstitutionality would have ‘immense’ implications

An analysis of the results of a number of recent competitions in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine showed no significant difference in the success rate of male and female candidates. Photograph: Philip Toscano/ PA Wire

4:04 Men wrongly perceive gender bias in Civil Service promotion – ESRI

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Eoin Burke-Kennedy
December 2, 2020

Research examines flexible working, promotions and training in Civil Service

A seven judge Supreme Court is hearing an appeal over the constitutionality of new procedures for determining workplace disputes. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni

Constitutionality of workplace dispute process challenged

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Mary Carolan
December 1, 2020

Supreme Court hears challenge relating to dismissal of Costcutter manager

“Fairer recruitment, visible change, and public commitment all played their part” in driving down the pay gap, chief executive David McRedmond said.

An Post reduces gender pay gap to 1.4% while improving female representation

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Eoin Burke-Kennedy
December 1, 2020

Group says fairer recruitment help drive down pay differential

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