In the wake of COVID-19 and the ongoing war in Ukraine, many countries are now facing a cost of living crisis. Impacts are disproportionately felt by women, who are more likely to work in low-paid roles and are more vulnerable to increases in the cost of living e.g. …

This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate taking an evidence-based approach to understanding gender inequality in the labour market. Apparently, “men apply for a job when they meet only 60% of the qualifications, but women apply only if they meet 100%”. …

The pandemic has dramatically shifted ways of working, with 57% of employees now wanting either full time home working or ‘hybrid working’ — where they are in the office for some of the week and at home for the remainder. At the same time, working hours have increased for remote…

Recruiters spend less than 10 seconds screening a CV or resume. Such rapid decision-making increases the role that bias can play in hiring decisions. Rather than skills, irrelevant factors can become filtering criteria or sources of discrimination, consciously or otherwise. To test how changes to the design of CVs might…

Before the pandemic, only around 5% of UK employees worked entirely remotely. In the first lockdown this rose to 33% and 54% of UK employees are working remotely to some extent in April 2021. Many affected organisations are now thinking about next steps for when the requirement to ‘work from…

As office workers in many parts of the world are returning to workplaces, we’re confronted with the ‘new normal’: the need to maintain physical distance. For many employees, even simple rules like “stay 1.5m apart” are proving hard to consistently follow in practice. Fortunately, behavioural science gives us clues as…

Like millions of others around the world, we at BIT are grappling with the sudden changes to our working life that COVID-19 is imposing on us. We are trying out different approaches to respond to the circumstances to see what works. We are also running a series of quick surveys…

Yesterday, 11 March, the NYC Stock Exchange registered the largest dip in the market since the global financial crisis of 2008. While a potential oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia undoubtedly had an impact, another global occurrence was likely a factor — the coronavirus. With up to 110,000…