WORKPLACES should operate new shift patterns that would see staff in work four days followed by 10 days working from home, a new report recommends. The study by Imperial College London chemical ...

More than 3.5 million people work irregular hours in the UK - and all of them are at greater risk of cancer, experts warn We are, as a nation, working longer hours and increasingly unsociable hours.

Police officers will soon have more options when it comes to their shift patterns. After a meeting between Chief Constable Lee Freeman and the Humberside Police Federation chairman, Pete Musgrave, ...

Watch this session from the 2024 Nursing Times Workforce Online Conference looking at how choice and flexibility in work patterns affects nurse wellbeing. The Nursing Times Workforce Online Conference ...

In the second half of an interview with Police Federation chairman Terry Spence, Crime Correspondent Jonathan McCambridge hears about anger over proposed new working arrangements for officers Last ...

The proposals have attracted criticism from union representatives and local politicians, who claim that they will leave communities exposed during the evenings, with PCSOs themselves losing pay.

Working Time Solutions’ Kevin White discusses how workforce planning and management software can help simultaneously reduce the threat of strike action and strengthen labour relations. Barely a week ...

A Yorkshire police force is making changes to its shift patterns in a bid to improve morale after a national survey revealed that officers are feeling increasingly undervalued. Did you know with a ...

BMW car workers in Oxford have voted in favour of new shift patterns, to cope with a hoped-for uplift in orders. Permanent staff at the German-owned Mini plant in Cowley were given the option of four ...

Recent research suggests that the modern day-day-night-night shift pattern for shift workers may not be as disruptive or as potentially carcinogenic as older, more extreme shift patterns. Recent ...

Estimates vary as to exactly how many shift workers there are in the UK, but figures generally sit around the 4 million mark – making up around 15% of the workforce. Shift workers are incredibly ...