Fewer employees want to work a four-day week now than they did before the Covid pandemic, new research says. The research shows that the idea that the pandemic has led…

The secret of what employees who switch to a four-day week do with their extra day off have been revealed by new research – and some are moonlighting on a…

Mothers who choose to work from home regularly earn around 10% more than those who do not, but fathers get no significant benefit, a major new study says. The study…

The BSA journal, Work, Employment and Society (WES) has just held its first PhD Showcase paper development workshop.  In 2022, WES founded the PhD Showcase Section as a new section…

Managers are reluctant to promote or give pay rises to staff who work from home part or all of the time, new research shows. They believe that staff who work…

How, where and why do platform workers protest? Platform work, exemplified by firms like Uber and Deliveroo, attracts seemingly endless discussion; journalistic, political, and sociological. Policy debates generally associate platforms…

White men are more likely to report being bullied at work than are white women or people from ethnic minorities, a new study has found. Researchers analysed survey data on…

After launching a new article format aimed to support and champion doctoral researchers in the sociology of work, BSA journal Work, Employment and Society (WES) has now released a video…

The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are ‘bullshit’ has been confirmed by a new study. The research found that people working…