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Totally suspicious of Trump but this is well argued, well worth a read. Economic partnership will protect the Ukrainian people and the US taxpayer - on.ft.com/4k4uRsB via @FT

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Target hit by consumer anger at its retreat from diversity policies - “I don’t want to shop in a place that wouldn’t hire me or wouldn’t celebrate me,” Yay! Black and female shoppers matter! on.ft.com/4kepGqa via @FT

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I tell my kids they should think anout it on.ft.com/4b8RsAd via @FT

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“It was a whim, based on the current political climate it was a very good whim..At this point, I have no desire to return to the USA. What’s going on over there gives me so much anxiety, particularly as a family of colour. Particularly as a woman.” on.ft.com/3QuzbDK @FT

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In defence of the state - What is happening is destruction, not reform. Whatever they have been told, ordinary Americans will not benefit from the chaos. But we know who will. on.ft.com/3EKnDK8 via @FT

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Last week Musk trumpeted his closure of the CSFB. A few days before Musk’s X struck a deal with Visa to launch X Money Account Consumers will soon be able to get all their social media, bank transfers, AI support and neo-Nazi propaganda from 1 platform on.ft.com/4gH4GoU

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UK medical students flock to Bulgaria amid scarcity of college places back home - interesting that an apparently poorer country than UK sees the value in training up young people. Labour talks and plans a good story on skills but we need much more urgency and action on.ft.com/3Qm2Krd via @FT

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Diet Coke is a symbol of modern office culture - 'Once, Diet Coke’s image was about calorie counting, breaks and well-defined abs. Today, it’s the rocket fuel of machismo America’s working habits.' on.ft.com/3CS29dI via @FT

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The HR reckoning - fair assessment of current state of HR. Clarity of priorities and scope, what can be delivered at what budget absolutely critical at the mo. Interesting she sees us 'other managers who set pay' as different/more expert than HR! on.ft.com/4jYz1lJ via @FT

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Totally brilliant! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

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'Silent prayer' at the clinic near me in St Mgts involved confronting women at the gate of the clinic and laying large prints of aborted foetuses on the pavement. The law now has the right balance between free speech and bullying vulnerable women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Save us from performative dads: 'Vance and Musk are able to flaunt their parental flexibility privilege while ordering staff back to the office full-time, removing the ability for many federal agency workers to combine family and work.' on.ft.com/3XpMFVt via @FT

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Save us from performative dads.'The assumption when women appear with kids at work is she’s a bit of a mess, she can’t find child are. It’s a double standard in the Trump clique. They’re being ‘great dads’ — because the assumption is this is an occasional ‘nice to do’.” on.ft.com/3XpMFVt

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“Rolling back DEI isn’t just an internal business decision, it has real-world conseqs. It deepens inequality, weakens trust, undoing years of progress...at some point, everyone will find ourselves in a minority" Hear hear! Let's all go shop @co op ! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Abuses lurk deep in fashion supply chain -1/3 of workers said they were paid below the legal minimum wage. A similar % worked more than the legal maximum 10 hr day, all the legal minors worked more than the limit. Should we keep buying from these firms? on.ft.com/4gEjYdS

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US shares UK affliction of a growing green economy hamstrung by the previous decade of public sector austerity and reductions in corporate training provision. Both need to invest far more in up and reskilling and training. - on.ft.com/42QS77f via @FT

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wow, some pay cut. Morgan Stanley pays Ted Pick $34mn in his first year as chief executive - on.ft.com/41f22Ce via @FT

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Drivers on Elizabeth line to strike for four days over coming weeks

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We're delighted to welcome The Rt Hon Chloe Smith, as our new president. Chloe will act as an advocate and ambassador for the CIPD and the work we do to support the people profession to deliver on our purpose of championing better work and working lives. 🎉 More information here: ow.ly/8Vfs50UZf2o

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Women continue to earn less than men and fewer women achieve senior leadership positions. To mark International Women's Day we invite you to join Dr. Meenakshi Krishnan to this free webinar where we introduce a new ‘lifecycle approach’ to designing women’s career trajectories. bit.ly/4hACzcj

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Keynes once said, “Theres nothing a government hates more than to be well-informed; it makes the process of arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult.” I no longer feel so bad about bring such an awful decision maker! How to provide evidence in turbulent times on.ft.com/4hV8rrX @FT

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Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals - Reader comment: 'If this is where Accenture’s moral compass and workforce strategy is, then fine - but I hope they feel the consequences of this cowardice'. on.ft.com/4hEedho

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What good is the sparkle of Strictly if young people in Britain aren’t getting the chance to dance? | Shirley Ballas

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Employee ownership pays off. 'The group’s 1,023 staff each receive an annual profit share, are paid at least the living wage and participate in running the business.' Great to see all employees sharing in their success, not just executives www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Fortunately it can't exactly. But will it slow the funereal rates of progress in closing gender pay and ethnic representation gaps even further? www.cityam.com/could-trumps...

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Catch up now on our webinar with @employmentstudies.bsky.social on the lessons the UK can learn from international approaches to work and health. Thanks to Sarah Cunningham, Christopher Prinz, Myrthe van Vilsteren and @jonnygiff.bsky.social for sharing their insights ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4jI7bd8

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Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport

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Good weekend read. I feel I spent my career fighting inequality, yet we still have 15% gender pay gap. But as the Cambrdge lady says, progress is never linear. & uk different to US: civil rights & race led there, uk employment rights & gender lead. Where ‘woke’ went wrong on.ft.com/4jGsBaM

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Brexit: even worse than you feared on.ft.com/4aFSDql

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Why Rachel Reeves will fail unless we address the shareholder driven model of capitalism. Nobody else benefits from this break up including the uk economy which needs large successful manufacturing and tech companies . Smiths Group announces break-up after activist pressure - on.ft.com/4jDA8He

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Davos Man collides with Trump 2.0 - “People are worried about everything related to ESG, diversity and disclosure,” said Ronald Wuijster, chief executive of APG Asset Management in the Netherlands, one of the world’s largest pension funds. on.ft.com/4hgRwQv

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Do 60 family businesses really employ 14 million people? Of course not. If not obvious, what Dyson does here - whether deliberately or ignorantly - is conflate family businesses owned by very rich people, who might have to pay more IHT, with the vast majority of small businesses who won;t.

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Do sign up for our new one day programme @ereward.bsky.social on pay transparency www.e-reward.co.uk/education/ma...

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UK companies on list of top R&D spenders almost halves in a decade - Britain ranked well in academic research output and top-performing universities, its scientific knowledge was “not translating into economic value”. on.ft.com/4jtb3yP via @FT

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'Pursuing a narrow version of growth at the expense of employees or wider society is flawed... there is merit in pushing for a type of expansion that mobilises an organisation, brings staff together behind a common purpose and elevates ambitions' on.ft.com/40iPaJG via @FT

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'I would like to see a bit more urgency . . . You can consult until the cows come home, but sometimes government just needs to take decisions,” said Beels, echoing concerns raised by unions and business groups' Story of this government so far?! on.ft.com/4g0rv6t via @FT

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Pay transparency? Ha!Courier firms “leveraging black-box algorithms to make decisions about deactivation, work allocation and pay without sufficient explanation, stripping workers of the ability to understand and challenge those decisions”. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Rachel Reeves' new Office for Value for Money is “an understaffed, poorly-defined organisation which has been set up with a vague remit and no clear plan to measure its effectiveness”. Apart from that, it's great! on.ft.com/40mHIxc via @FT

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Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health - on.ft.com/4hm9Bw9 via @FT

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Trump’s border tsar vows ‘shock and awe’ deportations in first week https://www.ft.com/content/f216ff88-bfd3-473a-b52f-d7d78a4d54e1

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Trump’s official portrait claims to ‘go hard’. Vance just looks stunned he pulled this off | Arwa Mahdawi

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Futurologists suggest abandoning the traditional jobs mindset and for HR processes to be wholly skills-based. Based on IES' research, @duncanbhr.bsky.social endorses the move towards a stronger emphasis on skills, but suggests three more practical actions to progress. Read: bit.ly/4gY3Yo0

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“I’ve been working in the business since 1984, I’ve never seen such a prolonged period of despair.. it kicked off with Covid, then streaming wars then strikes, now this.”But the 62-yr-old veteran added: “I’m not ready to quit. I’m not ready to give up.” on.ft.com/4hbXOjZ

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CBI boss says Labour has ‘bruised’ trust of businesses after Budget. Its the NI increases rather than employment rights that's spooking most of my clients www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rupe...

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UK manufacturers increase pressure on government over industrial strategy - “Unless it’s for tanks or windmills, there’s basically no money,” said the Whitehall official. on.ft.com/4g0rKhY via @FT

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Has corporate purpose lost its purpose? -Cos may be right to shy away from declaring a purpose beyond the bottom line:its not proving an effective way to inspire employees. But what other approaches can leaders take to encourage staff to see meaning in the work they do? on.ft.com/40gBKOt via @FT

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Are offices the new neckties? - 'Difficult markets produce a sense of helplessness in managers, which they try to compensate for by reaching out for things they might be able to control' like office attendance on.ft.com/40wjeTB via @FT

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