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Clare McNeil
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Chief Executive, Timewise | Co-founder, Workwhile | Associate Fellow and former Associate Director, IPPR
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Great to see @thetimes.com cover @timewise.bsky.social new report out today:

“Pushing people into insecure, physical, inflexible work when they are already challenged by disability or mental health problems is futile – these jobs don’t work and they don’t last".

www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Sick who go back to work end up in low-paid, physically tough jobs
Only a tiny fraction of economically inactive find a job each year, and it is often an unsuitable role where they can only last a few months, research shows
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The nostalgia for manufacturing overlooks what truly built economic security: labor power, progressive taxation, and social policy.

As fellow @jessicacalarco.bsky.social reminds us, the “good life” wasn’t caused by manufacturing—and it wasn’t accessible to all. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
quote that reads: Even with the reduced competition, though, the negotiation of a living wage was only possible thanks to the power that trade unions wielded at the time. In the decades after World War II, roughly one in three U.S. workers were union members, compared to only about one in ten today. Unions helped increase manufacturing wages and reduce wage gaps between front-line workers, managers, and CEOs. They also helped create and maintain other employment protections, like 40-hour workweeks, health insurance, and defined-benefit pensions that guaranteed a steady income even after workers retired.
April 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We hosted Professor Paul Gregg, Chair of the DWP Labour Market Advisory Board @timewise.bsky.social

There’s a real chance of a doubling of those on incapacity benefit over the next 15 years.

More autonomy, control & flexibility at work is key to preventing this: timewise.co.uk/article/endi...
February 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Thanks for sharing this @workfoundation.bsky.social!
#two-tierworkforce
workfoundation.bsky.social Work Foundation @workfoundation.bsky.social · Jan 31
🏆 Our #Resarchoftheweek goes to @timewise.bsky.social and @financialfairness.bsky.social for their ‘Ending the two-tier workforce’ report that looks at how to create greater control and more predictable work for frontline workers. (1/8)

Read it here: https://buff.ly/4gfPrD6
Front cover of Ending the two-tier workforce by Timewise and Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.
January 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Delighted to be People Management Magazine's top story www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1904...

#EndTwoTierWorkforce
@financialfairness.bsky.social
Lack of flexibility for frontline workers creating ‘two-tier workforce’, report reveals
Experts highlight ‘longstanding pattern of inequity’ and urge employers to facilitate options including part time, job shares and annualised or compressed hours
www.peoplemanagement.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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@timewise.bsky.social NEW report exclusively in @theguardian.com today finds there is a growing ‘two-tier’ workforce in the UK.

👉 We set out recommendations for how more frontline workers can experience autonomy, work-life balance, dignity & control at work.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
Inequality in flexible working dividing Britain into ‘two-tier workforce’
Exclusive: Office workers have more flexibility than frontline staff such as nurses and shop workers, report says
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM