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The number one perk for working parents

On-site childcare can cut down on parental stress, up worker engagement and help keep mums in the labour market. Why doesn't everyone offer it?
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How We Work
The workers 'going to the dark side'

These days, swapping a passion role for a less-interesting job with better pay and benefits could well make sense. Is it time to end the stigma of 'selling your soul'?
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Worklife
Workers have power - what comes next?

Workers have leverage now, but will it translate to long-term gains?
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How We Work
Why you might be radically underpaid

People significantly underestimate what other people make for the same work, which keeps them in poorly paying jobs and disadvantages many workers.
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Equality Matters
The 'brain waste' shutting out workers

Some countries are full of educated people whose skills are badly needed. But there are barriers to matching them to jobs, leading to 'brain waste'.
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Hello Hybrid
The tussle over location-based pay

Companies are grappling over whether fully remote employees should be paid the same as in-office staff. What is the right way forward?
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How We Work
The rise of the anti-work movement

Many employees are frustrated with the nature of employment. But some fed-up workers are asking a bigger question: what’s the purpose of work?
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How We Work
The big boom in small cities and towns

The new world of remote jobs has small towns and cities exploding with growth as workers explore alternatives to big metropolitan areas. Is this good or bad?
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Family Tree
The dark power of 'parental shame'

Juggling work and family pressures is hard and when parents are ashamed of how they’re managing the “impossible balancing act”, research shows their careers suffer.
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How We Work
The jobseekers competing with video CVs

As hiring shifts towards virtual interviews, an increasing number of candidates are jumping in front of the camera to boost their odds of winning a job. Should you do the same?
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Science
74% of ransomware revenue goes to Russian hackers

Crypto-currency researchers say more than $400m of cyber-crime funds go to Russian gangs.
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World
Eccentric sewage rebels head for the big screen

When a group of middle-aged swimming friends from Scarborough became worried about sewage in the sea in the 1980s, they started staging eccentric stunts to highlight their cause, and even took on the government. Now, their story is being turned into a film.
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Business
How nurseries are keeping track of their toddlers

Misty Ardouin set up her nursery, Nestlings, in Cardiff City centre in 2019. At the end of each day, they would have a "good sit down" in the playroom with parents to catch-up on everything the children had been doing.
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Science
Record high deforestation of Amazon in January

The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in January far exceeded deforestation for the same month last year, according to government satellite data.
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Science
Lessons in pleasure boost good safe sex

Teaching people about achieving sexual pleasure can help sell safe-sex messages, say researchers from the World Health Organization.
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World
White House left behind as states drop Covid rules

The White House is facing pressure to revise its position on mask wearing as pandemic restrictions are eased in a number of US states.
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Science
James Webb telescope begins to focus its 'big eye'

It's a confusing but amazing image.
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Science
How Taiwan used simple tech to help contain Covid-19

In Taiwan, finding someone who will talk about their Covid experience is harder than you might think.
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