Dr Gem Dale
@gemdale.bsky.social
Does HR / flexible working stuff. Writes things. Likes coffee and Tim Scott, probably not in that order. Feminist. Lecturer. Gymaholic.
This is completely unworkable without a massive investment in childcare / wrap around care provision. Many parents already struggle with childcare outside of core hours and holidays, which even if it is available is often absurdly expensive. How would this work for working parents?
🚨NEW REPORT - The Evidence for a 4-Day School Week🚨
Teachers are burnt out and leaving the profession in droves.
The status quo isn’t working. It’s time to try something that might.
It’s time to trial a 4-day week in schools.
Full report below ⬇️
Teachers are burnt out and leaving the profession in droves.
The status quo isn’t working. It’s time to try something that might.
It’s time to trial a 4-day week in schools.
Full report below ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is completely unworkable without a massive investment in childcare / wrap around care provision. Many parents already struggle with childcare outside of core hours and holidays, which even if it is available is often absurdly expensive. How would this work for working parents?
Normalise this.
Someone on the train has just answered a call with "Sorry, I can't speak, I'm on a train". For a moment I thought the carriage was going to break into applause for them.
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Normalise this.
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This is outdated dinosaur management.
🚙🚍🚶♀️“I spend a total of 4 hours commuting to & from the office on a normal day.”
TikTok workers in Ireland face brutal daily commutes. This is not sustainable. Solidarity with CWU Ireland in their fight for hybrid work rights.
https://www.thejournal.ie/tiktok-ireland-3-6877283-Nov2025/
TikTok workers in Ireland face brutal daily commutes. This is not sustainable. Solidarity with CWU Ireland in their fight for hybrid work rights.
https://www.thejournal.ie/tiktok-ireland-3-6877283-Nov2025/
TikTok staff fear becoming 'absent parents' as over 200 petition against full office return
One worker facing a four-hour return commute told The Journal she has serious anxiety about how ‘absent’ she will be from her child’s life.
www.thejournal.ie
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is outdated dinosaur management.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Could remote working unlock more work opportunities for groups such as disabled people? Find out more in our new report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Could remote working unlock more work opportunities for groups such as disabled people? Find out more in our new report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
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Should UK workers have a “right to switch off”? Find out more in our new report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Should UK workers have a “right to switch off”? Find out more in our new report, ‘Is Working from Home Working?’ ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/home-based-w...
This is interesting. This is also why I still listen to music on CDs, and treasure my DVD collection. Yes, that probably makes me a dinosaur, but I still have the things if they disappear of any particular platform.
The exodus reflects a general concern that major tech companies are too cosy with the Trump administration.
Why musicians are leaving Spotify – and what it means for the music you love
The exodus reflects a general concern that major tech companies are too cosy with the Trump administration.
tcnv.link
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This is interesting. This is also why I still listen to music on CDs, and treasure my DVD collection. Yes, that probably makes me a dinosaur, but I still have the things if they disappear of any particular platform.
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
Delighted to have contributed evidence to this report - this is a debate that needs to be informed by evidence and research.
How have remote and hybrid working affected the UK’s working landscape? Here’s some of our findings below: 👇
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Delighted to have contributed evidence to this report - this is a debate that needs to be informed by evidence and research.
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Assume it’s now Louvre1.
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Assume it’s now Louvre1.
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FFS Daily Mail
No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”
Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄
I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter
Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!
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1/12
No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”
Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄
I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter
Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!
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November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
FFS Daily Mail
No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”
Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄
I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter
Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!
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1/12
No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”
Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄
I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter
Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!
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1/12
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
I do this every year. A good way to have a conversation about others who might receive little for Christmas.
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I do this every year. A good way to have a conversation about others who might receive little for Christmas.
I will never understand how listening to people who are educated on a subject and know what they are talking about became so weaponised.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I will never understand how listening to people who are educated on a subject and know what they are talking about became so weaponised.
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🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
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😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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October 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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I'm sorry, what?
Good news: men have stopped disrupting women’s sport with dildos. Bad news: now they’re betting on their periods | Arwa Mahdawi
Good news: men have stopped disrupting women’s sport with dildos. Bad news: now they’re betting on their periods | Arwa Mahdawi
Speculating on basketball players’ menstrual cycles is creepy and intrusive. In other words, it’s just what you’d expect when women must be punished for standing out, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I'm sorry, what?
Oh look, the female (highly accomplished professor) co-host is literally obscured.
TV tonight: Rylan Clark goes witch-hunting in Elizabethan Essex
TV tonight: Rylan Clark goes witch-hunting in Elizabethan Essex
Prof Alice Roberts joins Rylan to investigate witch trials in Chelmsford. Plus: an exposé of the international dog-fighting trade. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Oh look, the female (highly accomplished professor) co-host is literally obscured.
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The Reform mask has slipped.
They'll always put bad bosses ahead of the rights of working people.
They'll always put bad bosses ahead of the rights of working people.
October 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The Reform mask has slipped.
They'll always put bad bosses ahead of the rights of working people.
They'll always put bad bosses ahead of the rights of working people.
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Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.
Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show
Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.
www.ok.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five
Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five
Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds
Mothers lose an average of £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five, as the “motherhood penalty” risks their financial security, official figures show.
Mums in England are hit by a “substantial and long-lasting reduction” in their pay after they have children, as they become less likely to stay in paid employment, the Office for National Statistics have said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵