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Women hit hardest in retail, hospitality job losses

Women hit hardest in retail, hospitality job losses

As BusinessDesk reported on Wednesday, the headline unemployment figures for the June quarter need to be digested with a large grain of salt.Unemployment of 4 percent masks a whole range of things, including a shrinking labour force during lockdown. To be counted as unemployed yo...

Andy Fyers 06 Aug 2020
All hail the four day working week
The Life Free

All hail the four day working week

There's mounting evidence that reducing the working week to four days benefits not just staff, but also businesses.Troy Hammond, founder and chief executive of IT recruitment company Talent Army, was already planning to introduce a four-day working week for his 12 staff when...

Ruth Nichol 17 Jul 2020