CMI In The News

Financial Times

Keir Starmer seeks to reassure business over Labour’s worker rights pledges

While business lobby groups have expressed concerns about Labour’s workers’ rights proposals, recent polling of managers by the Chartered Management Institute showed 83 per cent said that improving worker’s rights could positively impact workplace productivity.

The Times

Is flexible working just a ‘woke’ trend?

Q: There’s a backlash in the United States about “woke gone mad” and I’m wondering, are they perhaps on to something? I’m thinking particularly about employees kicking off about going back to the office.

The Guardian

Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial

Anthony Painter, director of policy at the Chartered Management Institute, said he was “following the four-day week trials with interest” since CMI research had shown that employees valued flexible working above all else, including pay rises

The Times

I’m surrounded by ‘yes men’ – what should I do?

What we’re talking about here is “groupthink”, and it’s dangerous. According to research by the Institute of Risk Management, groupthink is the biggest cause of corporate failure in the 21st century.

Financial Times

How to improve cyber resilience across your workforce

Cyber attacks are increasing both in number and complexity, yet many businesses are still failing to provide adequate cyber security training for their employees.

City AM

Why Gen Z is avoiding the corporate ladder and what ‘tough questions’ it poses for business

Generation Z is beginning to shrug off the corporate ladder climb, new research suggests, while some experts believe the UK entrepreneurial landscape – and the workplace – could be changing.