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A new King's College London study reveals significant public resistance and misunderstanding surrounding the UK's first health guidelines on sedentary behaviour at work, which were a response to mounting evidence on the health risks of prolonged sitting, including higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

Financial Management Services has enhanced protection of employee tax information and, in coordination with the university's Information Security Office, suggests ways that employees can further protect themselves from fraud and identity theft.

Sussex Research names first Harry Kroto Fellows Sussex Research has awarded two Harry Kroto Fellowships in the first round of this new scheme to Dr Sarah Scuzzarello (Global Studies) with Mahidol University, Thailand and Dr Liang Chen (BMEc) with Renmin University of China.

Going above and beyond the call of duty comes at a cost to personal well-being and family responsibilities, despite the link between being conscientious at work and career success according to new research from King's and the University of Bath.

Being conscientious at work has long been linked with career success but new University research shows that going above and beyond the call of duty comes at a cost to personal well-being and family responsibilities. Going the extra mile The study of employees in a UK customer call centre for a retail bank found that going the extra mile at work left employees emotionally exhausted and grappling with work-family conflict.

John Major was perfect because he just used to close his eyes, lean back in his chair and say 'Oh well, Stella.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Jenni Evans, professor of meteorology at Penn State, has been appointed director of Penn State's Institute for CyberScience (ICS).

Cardiff University is the highest-ranked university in the UK for its commitment to LGBT+ staff in one of the largest employment surveys in the country.

In 2015, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley announced a partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing.

James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, professor emeritus of linguistics who throughout a long and distinguished career produced groundbreaking work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec.

Hunterian Director, Professor David Gaimster, is to leave the University of Glasgow to take up a major new role in New Zealand.

Former ambassador Joseph Weiß from the Federal Foreign Office talks about career prospects Career prospects in the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany will be highlighted by J

Imposing 'meaningful work' leads to staff burnout Strategies to boost staff performance and morale by manipulating our desire for meaningful work often achieve the opposite - damaging organisations and alienating employees - a new study suggests.

The head of the research centre on extremism based at King's College London, Professor Peter Neumann, has been appointed Special Representative on Countering Violent Radicalisation to the Office of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE).

A new national program - LATTICE - sponsored by the University of Washington, North Carolina State University and California Polytechnic State University aims to diversify the national engineering fac

Berkeley - For the first time, economists at the University of California, Berkeley have measured the likely pay and job impacts of California's scheduled statewide $15 minimum wage increase by 2023. The law will raise wages for 5.26 million workers in California over the next six years, they say.

New research from UC Berkeley shows that the Earned Income Tax Credit is the most effective poverty-fighting program for children in the U.S, and encourages families to work more because it rewards additional earnings. The work by Berkeley professor of economics and public policy Hilary Hoynes and others, which assesses the impacts of anti-poverty programs, is highlighted in a policy brief for the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.  'This is the first assessment of both the direct and indirect impact of the EITC on poverty.

In October, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the City of San Francisco and its partner UC Berkeley $11 million to fund six innovative projects aimed at reducing traffic congestion and creating a safer and more efficient transportation system.

Removing bias from the hiring process presents challenges for the hospitality industry and other service industries that want a qualified, diverse workforce. New research from Cornell University shows that hiring managers' awareness of competence among job applicants and managers' positive attitudes toward affirmative action programs help reduce prejudice in recruitment.

Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor of Economics and a former Warden of Nuffield College, who died on 1 January 2017, has been called 'the godfather of modern scholarship on the distribution of income and wealth' by fellow economist Thomas Piketty.

"Game-changing" Welsh Crucible programme opens latest round of recruitment for exceptional researchers across Wales Welsh Crucible is urging exceptional researchers from across Wales to apply for this year's award-winning programme.

Behind every famous web site, from Amazon to Priceline, is a common-sense idea that somehow no one thought of before.

ANN ARBOR?Neurable, a University of Michigan startup that developed brain-computer interface technology based on breakthrough neuroscience, has raised a $2 million seed round to bring its software platform to market.

A team of Cardiff University researchers is leading the debate around reducing the disability employment gap in the UK.

Companies with 250 or more employees will soon be required to give average pay and bonuses data for men and women.

New regulations requiring companies to report pay gaps between men and women are potentially 'superficial' and will not necessarily tackle the complex reasons why females still have lower salaries, new research shows.

The University of Queensland will launch its pioneering Leadership in Global Development MicroMasters course in January - the first of its kind to be offered in Australia.

Great Britain Paralympic swimmer Stephanie Slater visited the Department of Eye and Vision Science based at the University's Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease (IACD) in support of a new eye donation initiative and to see first-hand the work that is being undertaken to pioneer new treatments.

Changes in federal economic policy could be on the horizon, but such policy will likely be slow to have an impact on the U.S. economy.

The next big global startup success story could be in the early stages of development at The University of Queensland's leading innovation incubator - ilab at UQ.

An Imperial research team has been dancing up a storm under the direction of a West End choreographer they helped to get back on his feet.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The practice of employers screening potential new hires by conducting pre-employment credit checks as a gauge of "character" or productivity is a controversial one that has drawn increased scrutiny in the years since the Great Recession.

From exploring why so few women hold leadership positions in unions to examining criminal record inaccuracies among individuals denied employment, several research projects funded by the Institute for the Social Sciences? (ISS) small grant program are examining topics never previously studied.

Start-ups linked to EPFL raised almost CHF 400 million this year - that's over 50% more than in 2014, the last record year.

Cardiff University will represent the UK in a major new project set up to provide evidence-based scientific advice for EU policymaking.

Renowned theoretical chemist James L. Skinner has been appointed to the Crown Family Professorship and named director of the Water Research Initiative at the Institute for Molecular Engineering.

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