Research commissioned by Cuckooz Nest, a workspace with integrated nursery and sister company to Cuckooz, has found that 85% of parents believe companies with over 250 employees should subsidise the childcare costs they incur. The survey of working parents also found that 91% of parents think the government should provide tax relief on childcare costs […]

Women are put off from applying for jobs in male dominated industries because of “restrictive” application forms, a top business chief has said. Severn Trent chief executive Liv Garfield, one of the UK’s youngest female CEOs, said some women were not applying for roles because of “must have” skills lists. She said companies needed more […]

A rise in hotel and cruise bookings has helped European travel group Tui sail through another year with more than 10% growth in profits. It said next year, profits would grow a similar amount as customers also bought more excursions and holiday activities. Tui has seen double-digit growth for the last four years. Last month, […]

Christmas party has been a time-served tradition for companies all over the UK for many years now, but new research has revealed this annual occasion is falling out of favour with employees. Perkbox, the UK’s fastest growing employee benefits platform, polled 1,000 UK workers in The Most Generous Time of the Year study and found […]

Some Virgin Atlantic pilots will strike from 22 December to Christmas Day in a dispute over union recognition, the Professional Pilots Union has said. The union, which represents about a third of pilots at the airline, said it was excluded from talks over proposed changes to pilot benefits. It said this was the first of […]

Connor McCann works in a BT call centre in Canterbury but despite doing the same role as his colleagues was paid thousands less a year. That’s because the 24-year-old was employed by agency Manpower and not BT. “It didn’t matter how good you are at your job, you’re still being paid less than your colleagues,” […]

The festive season may be the perfect time for gift giving, however when it comes to the workplace many bosses aren’t rewarding or recognising their employees with a token gift, according to new research. A study of 1,000 UK workers published in the Most Generous Time of the Year Study by Perkbox, the UK’s fastest […]

Google employees will now be able to more freely speak out over issues of sexual harassment at the firm. Responding to demands from the around 20,000 workers who protested last week, the company has said it will end the practice of “forced arbitration” in cases of sexual harassment. Arbitration will now be optional, chief executive […]

Three-quarters of UK employees (73%) like to keep their work and home lives separate from one another according to research from ADP (Automatic Data Processing). Despite this, almost a third (30%) of UK workers don’t feel that they have a good work-life balance in their current role. The study, which surveyed over 2,000 workers across […]

Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company’s treatment of women. The employees are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm, including a call to end forced arbitration – a move which would make it possible […]