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Wages · United KingdomAs the UK’s cost-of-living crisis persists, employees are feeling the strain. New research from LiveCareer shows that 40% of UK workers experience financial stress every week, and 18% experience it daily. When asked to share their primary money concerns, 75% of respondents cited inflation and the cost of living. These findings, drawn from a survey of 1,000 UK workers in May 2025, align with the economic situation in Europe, where earnings have f…Read Article
40% of workers experience weekly financial stress, as wages fail to keep pace with inflation
OpenAI · LondonOpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and originally a non-profit, is struggling to agree a governance and finance restructure that will ensure the company brings public benefit amid its increasing hunger for cash. Every organisation grapples with a similar tension: at its simplest, this is the conflict between money and people. A wider perspective reveals the tug-of-war between self-interest and stakeholder value – a dynamic that plays out across charities,…Read Article
Money versus people, the conflict ChatGPT cannot resolve
Science · OxfordWhat really explains how individuals end up doing their best work thus creating prosperous working lives and organisations? People science can and does for much of what many businesses espouse, aspire to, and long for. We’ve long been told that if we find work we love, we’ll never truly work a day in our lives. It’s a nice sentiment, but it doesn’t quite stand up to the real conditions of modern work. The truth might well be that people do thei…Read Article
