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In the current age of technological disruption, Waterloo students are striving to understand the needs of the business world and tackle the biggest challenges they face.

Philosopher Sam Berstler diagnoses the corrosive effects of not acknowledging troubling truths. Imagine that the head of a company office is misbehaving, and a disillusioned employee reports the problem to their manager.

Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds a new study from UCL researchers. The report, published today by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, also finds that women are more likely than men to find work stressful, suggesting that lower pay is not compensated for by less pressured work.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Julie Davies (UCL Global Business School for Health) outlines four key themes employers could address to better handle early pregnancy endings in the workplace.

University of Bath StART research group uncovers how midwives experience and respond to stress, and which interventions are most effective at reducing it Research into stress among midwives has identified the most effective actions individual midwives and healthcare trusts can make to enhance wellbeing and reduce negative outcomes, including staff leaving the profession.

Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds this effect occurs even when reward models are trained on factual data.

Unwanted sexual behaviour is common in workplaces, but LGBTQ employees' harassment is often overlooked, co-writes Dr Cristyn Davies from the Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Humanitarian organisations are being urged to look beyond the point of rescue.

The mathematics achievement of Dutch students in grade 4 has hardly changed over the past 20 years. This is evident from the international study 'Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study' (TIMSS-2023), whose results were released today.

It is concerning that 8% of UK workers are 'increasingly precarious' - likely to be stuck in low-paid, insecure or otherwise uncertain work - say researchers from UCL in a new report on the UK labour market.

Research undertaken by the University of Glasgow into artists' earnings reveals falling incomes and significant pay disparities across demographics.

Until now, research on the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labor market has mainly focused on the individual, examining, for example, the effect of job application training.

Many of England's pharmacy technicians are forced to endure low pay, poor job satisfaction, bullying, lack of support and stressful work environments, a study by University of Manchester researchers has shown.

By making improvements to our shared working environment and improving the tools that make our work possible, we can enable our staff to continue the life-changing research and teaching that is having such a positive impact on the world.

In an eye-opening address at ANU, Dr Anne Summers AO warned of the severe impacts of domestic violence on women's employment.

Matthew Denes , an assistant professor of finance at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a grant from the  Washington Center for Equitable Growth  to investigate the effectiveness of the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession. He is among a new cohort of researchers who will be analyzing whether policies worked, including better and more equitable outcomes for working-age individuals in the United States.

Cycling volumes are increasing in many large cities around the world, including large Dutch cities. At the same time, these cities are experiencing a growing number of cyclists involved in serious roa