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Survey after survey establish the same things: people over 50 find it harder to get job interviews and are more likely to be eased out of existing jobs. Photograph: iStock

Why is it still considered okay to be ageist?

Lucy Kellaway
January 19, 2022

Our blindness to ageism is puzzling as it is a prejudice against our future selves

One of the biggest challenges a new manager faces is how to speak to people whose jobs they don’t understand.

Curiosity is the new manager’s best friend

Work
Michael Skapinker
December 17, 2021

Promoted to a senior role? Have to get your head around others’ jobs? Try the five Cs

Daniel O’Mahony and Michal Sikora, founders of Da Silly Heads. ‘Our workshops are based on our lived experience’

5:18 Da Silly Heads: taking a sensible approach to mental heath advocacy

Work
Olive Keogh
December 17, 2021

The co-founders want to bring mental health out of the closet and put a human face on it

The Christmas lights in Grafton Street in Dublin. Next plc takes on ‘dramatically’ fewer seasonal staff in high street stores than it did in my day. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

4:23 Nothing says ‘Christmas’ like the festive buzz of a holiday job

Work
Laura Noonan
December 15, 2021

My four winters working at a clothes shop in Dublin are among my fondest memories

The study also highlighted concerns about ‘overboarding’ – where directors with many board seats risk splitting their time too thinly. Photograph: iStock

Women hold most non-executive director board seats in UK for first time

Work
Daniel Thomas
December 13, 2021

But almost nine in 10 executive directors are male across the top 150 Ftse companies

McKinsey’s ‘rookie moment’ bungle videos are positive example of how to survive early career howlers.

A work blunder teaches so much more than a triumph

Work
Pilita Clark
December 13, 2021

McKinsey ‘rookie moment’ bungle videos are positive example of how to survive early career howlers

Gemma Stafford: ‘I’d love to come back to Ireland and open an academy close to home in Wexford where people could learn to cook’

‘Los Angeles is a city of dreamers. If you have an idea, this is where you make it happen’

Work
Barbara McCarthy
December 10, 2021

Wild Geese: Chef and entrepreneur Gemma Stafford’s business expanded in lockdown

‘When people grow something, it profoundly shifts their knowledge, attitudes and behaviour around food and gives them a means to make healthier and more sustainable choices,’ says GIY founder Michael Kelly

Home delivered salad starter kits a fresh and engaging idea

Work
Olive Keogh
December 10, 2021

GrowBoxes, the unique employee engagement initiative, took root during the pandemic

Millions of gig workers in Europe could be on their way to being designated as employees under a new directive. Photograph: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

EU directive would grant millions of gig workers employee status

Work
December 9, 2021

Onus on employers to show workers are self-employed and not under their control

Chief executives are being evaluated by the market not just on earnings targets, but on how they articulate values, tackle inequity, manage talent, organise supply chains, affect the environment and engage with employees, customers and local communities.

Life at top gets tougher for chief executives

Work
Rana Foroohar
December 8, 2021

Shifting metrics for corporate performance put CEOs on less certain ground

The effect of a short holiday is just as strong as that of a longer one, some studies have shown, and getting away for less than five days is still a powerful way to improve health and happiness

Don’t get depressed if Omicron wrecks your holiday plans

Work
Pilita Clark
December 6, 2021

Pilita Clark: One reason we like holidays is because we are programmed to enjoy novelty

Of those employers using video interviews in the UK in 2019/20, 46% were doing them with an interviewer, 30% were using automated video interviews and 24% were using a mix of both, according to the Institute of Student Employers. Photograph: iStock

Automated video interviews making job search even more miserable

Business
Sarah O'Connor
December 3, 2021

Practice of using AI to whittle down list of applicants is bad news for everyone involved

“Managers who seek to impose some mechanistic, generic solution are likely to fail.’ Photograph: iStock

Irish businesses must embrace reduced-hours work or lose talent

Work
Olive Keogh
December 3, 2021

Reduced-load working is a way to retain staff while letting them stay on the career ladder

An Post chief people officer Eleanor Nash (left) and chief executive David McRedmond with Work Equal founder and entrepreneur Sonya Lennon. Photograph: Mark Maxwell/Maxwells

An Post closes gender pay gap to zero but men still receive higher bonuses

Work
Laura Slattery
December 1, 2021

State-owned company plans campaign to recruit more women postal staff

Boris Johnson delivered a ‘rambling’ speech to the CBI, referencing children’s television character Peppa Pig, and has seen his approval rating drop to the lowest during his premiership. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

How to spot the chancers who are ‘winging it’ at work

Work
Emma Jacobs
November 29, 2021

We are bad at assessing others’ performance but true slackers will always slip up

Grief has been particularly difficult during the pandemic where normal grieving rituals have been disrupted. Photograph: iStock

Workplace bereavements: how employers can support their staff

Work
Olive Keogh
November 26, 2021

Death affects most people at some time in their working lives, yet it rarely gets talked about

Only 26 per cent of organisations surveyed by PwC said they use a wide variety of external data sources and viewpoints in planning. Photograph: iStock

3:05 Firms failing to meet workplace challenges heightened by Covid-19

Work
Ciara O'Brien
November 24, 2021

Costs, flawed leadership and organisational culture cited by HR as obstacles to progress

The Devil Wears Prada, in which Meryl Streep’s character explains how ‘radical’ ideas filter down eventually. Photograph: iStock

How management fashions can change the world

Work
Andrew Hill
November 22, 2021

Innovative organisational habits are slow to catch on, but they can transform bloated bureaucracies

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell says there were upsides to not winning the Nobel Prize – “Once you win a Nobel prize, you won’t get any other prize.”

The Armagh woman who made one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of 20th century

Work
Barbara McCarthy
November 19, 2021

Wild Geese: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell says there were upsides to not winning a Nobel prize

The likely reimposition of tax rules are threatening to erect a barrier for about 12,500 people living in Ireland but employed by companies based across the Border – by preventing them from working flexibly. Photograph: iStock

5:49 Remote work: how Ireland’s tax laws clash with new reality

Business
Jude Webber
November 19, 2021

Rules set to be reimposed create dilemma for cross-Border staff of Northern Irish firms

Climate change is a knowledge-based problem that needs solving, says entrepreneur Donal Daly. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images

5:22 Entrepreneur Donal Daly takes on his biggest challenge yet – climate change

Work
Olive Keogh
November 19, 2021

‘The planet is burning and someone has to fix it’

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