Power to the people – the Unipart way

Unipart is on a mission to raise the UK's productivity and promote employee accountability

'Fusing' art and science in business boosts success

Examples of companies that show the ‘fusion effect’ include Sugru and Double Negative

When all that we count becomes all that counts: HR at the heart of the productivity shift

The new productivity culture replaces top-down coercion with bottom up empowerment strategies and HR is at its heart, but what is the dark-side of this shift?

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Stress and inactivity: 27 days lost per employee per year

The national average is 23.5 days of productive time per employee lost

UK workers think 36% of hours spent at work are unproductive

The Global Attitudes to Work survey polled 6,250 employees in 14 countries on various aspects of working life

George Osborne's given up on productivity, but you shouldn't

Poor management accounts for as much as a quarter of the productivity gap between us and other countries – here's how to tackle it

Education and training: key to boosting engagement and productivity

The importance of education to improve productivity is well-recognised, but the details have so far been lacking

Financial wellbeing harming UK's productivity

A quarter of employees have lost sleep over money worries, affecting their ability to concentrate at work

CBI describes a ‘flat start’ to 2016

The UK economy has had a ‘flat start’ in 2016, according to the CBI’s latest Quarterly Industrial Trends Survey

ONS: UK productivity levels not markedly improving

Working environments are hindering productivity, with only 54% thinking their workspace aids this

Last chance to register for HR lunchtime debate

The expert panel includes HR's Most Influential Thinker Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health

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Introducing 'activity-based' working

From de-cluttering to redesigning meeting areas, we explore how companies are maximising space AND productivity