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.
Bold package urged to stave off rise in unemployment
Friday, 21 November 2008
Predicting a peak of 2.5 million unemployed and a worse recession than both the 1980s and 1990s, a new report urges the government to use every means at its disposal – monetary, fiscal, financial and through assorted labour market interventions – to boost the economy and protect employment.
Steve Overell
Three Years On- Revisiting MG Rover
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Ex-Rover workers suffer big wage falls as they find new work , a report by The Work Foundation and Birmingham Business School has found. Groundbreaking research reveals latest findings on what has happened to the 6,300 workers who lost their jobs in the collapse of MG Rover.
Steve Overell
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