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Part time staff are outperforming full time workers according to new research from the Working Families charity organisation. The UK’s work-life balance charity’s 2018 Top Employers report featured data from over 600,000 staff working full and part time in both the public and private sectors. The report’s findings include evidence that the companies and organisations […]

New research from Job Today has revealed that Wednesday at 9am is the best time to apply for a new full or part time job. The study found that almost 1 in 5 (17 per cent) of recruiters posted their new job vacancies on a Wednesday and that almost half (47 per cent) of applicants […]

The latest Office for National Statistics data reveals that UK parents are increasingly heading back to the workplace rather than staying at home to look after their children. In the early 1990s, the number of people who were reportedly looking after the home or family rather than looking for a full or part time job […]

A new survey of close to 3,000 full and part time UK staff has shown that 50 per cent of workers felt that they had made a gaffe on their first day of work. Many of the first day blunders and mistakes are pretty familiar – such as arriving late or blurting out something stupid […]

Work & Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has encouraged teenagers in the UK to get a part time job in order to prepare for the workplace in later life. Ms McVey, who has been Work & Pensions Secretary since the start of this year and who worked part time in a bistro as a teenager, said […]

New research shows that more than 4 in 5 UK women think that flexible jobs are more attractive than traditional jobs which have fixed or rigid hours. The findings, carried out by conference call service provider Powwownow, reveal that 81 per cent of the female workforce in the UK say that some form of flexible […]

Virgin Media is pioneering flexible careers at the entry level stage with the UK’s first ever part time apprenticeship scheme. The launch comes as part of National Apprenticeship Week 2018 and should help hundreds of young people to start a flexible part time career with a leading company. Virgin Media has been offering apprenticeships for […]

New research has revealed how UK mums are earning less throughout their careers, at least part of which can be put down to the bias of part time work for their demographic. The UK gender pay gap has been pretty stubborn for many years and is still running at around 20 per cent. The new […]

Just under a third of people working in the UK ‘gig economy’ say they are holding down multiple part time jobs according to new research by insurance specialist Zurich UK. The flexible gig economy, where temporary jobs and part time positions are the norm, gives some element of freedom for many people who can’t commit […]

The number of young people under 16 with a part time job has dropped by 20 per cent since 2012, according to newly released figures. The statistics, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that the number of child work permits given to companies looking to employ under 16s in traditional ‘Saturday jobs’ has […]