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Topic: Flexibility

Flexible Working Helps to Accelerate Careers

Emma Wickham and Toni Jeffryes talk about how job sharing has allowed them to advance their career at Royal Mail Group

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

CMI Women Infographic Men the Missing Middle

CMI Women Infographic Men the Missing Middle

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

An introduction checklist to implementing flexible working hours

Since the 1980s technological advances have opened up opportunities to work from virtually anywhere.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Bring on Female Superheroes

Bring on Female Superheroes

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Ann Francke on CMI’s Blueprint for Balance

Ann Francke on CMI’s Blueprint for Balance

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Women in Business Turning Promise into Practice

The Gender Diversity Issue Has Been Around for Many Years Yet Many Businesses Still Have No Women in Senior Management

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Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders

Sheryl Sandberg Looks at Why a Smaller Percentage of Women Than Men Reach the Top of Their Professions

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

6 Habits of Truly Inclusive Organisations

Acceptance of Diversity Programmes is Patchy, and Progress is Slow.

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Using contextual processes for the recruitment of trainee solicitors

The Law Society of England publishes guidance on recruiting practices to promote social mobility in the solicitors profession

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Has collaboration gone to far

The economist has called it “the collaboration curse”. Is it time to stop sharing?

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Flexibility for all

My committee’s recent report on the gender pay gap found that women are better educated and better qualified than ever before

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

JWT London to use ‘blind recruitment’ for entry-level hires

JWT London to use ‘blind recruitment’ for entry-level hires

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