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As layoffs bite, teams are becoming smaller – and fewer resources mean remaining employees are spread thin and overburdened.

Nearly all workers are struggling to cope with economic precarity and professional stress. Yet the youngest workers may be feeling the strain more than anyone.

Before the pandemic, Mark had a lot of autonomy in his job in the IT department of a US industrial firm. He and his teammates were able to get their work done, he says, “without our manager doing much, you know, managing”. 

When we look back in 50 years’ time, it is likely that the 2D internet we now all use will seem laughably archaic.

For the first time in three years, many things felt normal about daily life. But the work world is still a major exception – and lots remains in flux.

Employers are often reluctant to fire employees for myriad reasons. But quietly side-lining them in the hope that they’ll quit often leads to even greater harm.

Even in a changed work world, compared to their bosses, junior employees are much less likely to be able to work flexibly. Why?

Workplace bullying is thriving in the remote-work era, as technology opens new avenues for unkind behaviour.

Employees have long threatened to walk if employers call them back into the office. Now, the dominoes are starting to fall.

Narcissists aren’t all overt and grandiose. There’s a stealthier, friendlier kind who are harder to spot – but just as dangerous.

It’s easy to say you’ll leave a job over ethics – but are workers really moving on, especially if they don’t get an offer that’s just as sweet?

More companies are offering benefits that cover IVF, egg-freezing or surrogacy. Are these perks, which can be divisive, really the key to retaining staff?

Since the pandemic, employees are leaving the workforce or switching jobs in droves. For many, employers have played a big part in why they’re walking away.

Although some joke about being ‘scarred’ by past bad jobs, workplace-induced emotional trauma is real – with long-lasting effects.

When Nikolina swapped the office for home working in early 2020 as the pandemic swept the globe, she hoped her company’s toxic culture might improve.