Will Hutton

Good work is not an idealistic notion that has nothing to do with success – it is about doing business better

During the financial crisis the BBC asked me if we were witnessing the end of capitalism.

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So what makes you so happy and engaged at work that Monday is a reasonably enticing prospect?

As this is HR Magazine, what should now follow is a series of commonsense and familiar prerequisites to create the happy workplace – on communication, good job design, leadership and creating the high...

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There is still a body of opinion that believes with religious zealotry that we should free up the labour market

The decline in religion has not stopped people wanting to believe. Instead it has just displaced that need into more surprising areas. One is the labour market.

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We cannot wish back into existence factories and steel mills that have been closed over the past 40 years

It has been a torrid couple of years for the economy. The next few look only fractionally more promising because recognition is growing that 'business as usual' - the mad years of the early and...

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New technology has not just set people free but has had the capacity to enforce, to de-skill and monitor.

Frederick Winslow Taylor and the principles of industrial efficiency he pioneered is said to have unleashed the 20th century productivity miracle. But he is also seen as man who reduced the worker to...

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Worker representation is a mess

Employees resort to employment tribunals when there's no effective collective worker voice.

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Workplace flexibility offers greater security

We need an employment model that acknowledges the reality of risk, uncertainty and change.

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