Fear of career stagnation keeps flexible working at bay - Flexible working has not caught on as well as it might as employees fear the impact it may have on their career prospects.
Pensions boss warns we will have to work longer - Britain's retirement age will "undoubtedly" rise in an attempt to plug a looming hole in the country's pension funding, the head of the Pensions Commission said yesterday.
The Newsnight blogger - While the BBC, like every other media organisation, has been scratching its collective head about how to engage with the blogosphere, Newsnight correspondent Paul Mason says he has taken the decision to subscribe to "the JFDI philosophy" - just fucking do it.
2 comments:
Thanks for the comments - both of which are extremely insightful. I wish I could regularly get students to come out with examples and opinions of this kind!
First of all, I believe we continually need to be reminded that employers have an insatiable thirst for whatever workers can contribute to their businesses, particularly when run on a 'lean' basis, i.e. the net effect can be particularly damaging if workers do not defend against this increasingly common intrusion into our private lives.
Second, the 'pensions crisis' is a multi-edge sword and I sense that it is set to have a very significant effect on how all of us work, whether we are far from retirement age or not.
Good point about employees - there are often no an innocent party in all of this. Moreover, there is a different dynamic between self-employed service providers and 'clients', although you wouldn't believe it at times!
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