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US firms face growing levels of employee activism

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UNITED STATES

Worker activism in the United States.

Part-remote-part-office work models will evolve

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INTERNATIONAL

Employers' desire to get their employees back together in person will be at odds with most employees' wish for more remote working, post-pandemic. How the return to work is…

Japan's GDP growth will settle after 'great reopening'

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JAPAN

Exports are near all-time highs. Prices have risen solidly for three successive quarters, indicating that Japan's period of deflation and weakly rising prices may be ending.

Stakeholders expect US businesses to take a position

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UNITED STATES

In response, companies of all sizes are becoming progressively more vocal about societal problems, from racial and gender inequalities to climate change and gun violence. To…

Rise in alternative work is eroding employee benefits

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INTERNATIONAL

Alternative work arrangements.

Low unemployment hides slack in Japan's labour market

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JAPAN

Japan's labour market.

Reform of Japan's working practices grows more urgent

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JAPAN

Labour regulation and workers' rights in Japan.

Foreign workers will ease Japan’s labour shortage

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JAPAN

Near-stagnation in wages is difficult to reconcile with reports of a very tight labour market in which firms struggle to hire. The answer lies partly in much higher levels of…

Belgium’s move to a four-day week will be gradual

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BELGIUM

From November 21, private sector workers can now work four instead of five days per week as part of the federal government’s new Labour Deal. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said…

Monitoring US workers, and pushback against, will grow

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UNITED STATES

Technological monitoring of employees will increase as the software spreads from large to small and medium-sized enterprises, as business models are digitalised, and as hybrid and…