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Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature's job satisfaction survey shows.
The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.
Efforts to improve research culture can make harmful systems easier to endure and harder to reform.
University staff are to vote on possible strike action over what a union has called "scandalous" cuts. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) said university management had launched "a wholesale attack on staff and students".
Some students at UK universities may not receive their grades this summer because of a marking boycott by staff, affecting exams and assessments. The boycott is part of action being taken by members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 145 UK institutions, in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
In the last few months, there has been a series of strikes by teachers in further education colleges across England over pay and conditions, and more strikes look set to impact the post-16 education sector this year. This report examines how pay and retention levels among college teachers in England have changed over time and compared with school teachers.
High-quality research requires appropriate employment and working conditions for researchers. However, many academic systems rely on short-term employment contracts, biased selection procedures and misaligned incentives, which hinder research quality and progress. We discuss ways to redesign academic systems, emphasizing the role of permanent employment.
Many higher education employees are headed for the exits, according to a new survey from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, which found that more than half of respondents said they were likely to look for other employment within the next 12 months.
A study of the culture in academic workplaces suggests that women and PhD students are most likely to be bullied.
Two years since COVID-19 forced labs to shut down, group leaders describe how academic research has changed, perhaps forever.
Evolution favors less work and more leisure.
Recent research shows that the skepticism many companies had related to working from home may be eroding.
The hybrid model increasingly favoured by managers will change our cities for good.
This review highlights where academics’ performance needs support and how the work environment can be improved to bolster publication productivity.
Today's offices don't encourage us to mingle-but that's what creativity and productivity demand.
Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive.
Coronavirus concerns have some businesses urging employees to work from home. If you're telecommuting, for public health reasons or otherwise, remember: Boundaries are your friend.
Although there is growing concern about the urgent need for a better life-work balance when doing science, there are not many examples about how this could be achieved in practice. In this article, 10 simple rules are introduced to make the working environment of research labs more nurturing, collaborative, and people-centered.
Male post-docs and PhD candidates work more than their female colleagues, but female professors work the most hours of all, according to the latest time use survey.
Want to get the best research from your team? Take these six steps to invest in stronger relationships.
As young scientists, we are fooled into working harder and longer to live up to sky-high expectations and encouraged to feel inadequate.
