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Pandemic: The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Interruption 

There is a great urban legend about the moment the BBC resumed normal television programming in 1946, after the Second World War. Just before picking up precisely where the channel had left off in 1939, the announcer said: “As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…”  Is it just a legend? Sadly, yes….

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Have your say on your experience of remote and hybrid working 

Hybrid and remote working seem to be here to stay. HSBC is a notable recent example of an employer acknowledging hybrid working as a factor in their choice of office space. Meanwhile, statistics quoted by the Guardian suggest workers in Central London are typically spending 2.3 days a week in the office on average –…

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Do disability passports really work?

In theory, the disability passport could be a major time-saver and problem-solver for many employees. Serving both to identify adjustments an employee might need and to record adjustments that have already been agreed, the disability passport should make it easier for employees with disabilities and long-term conditions to move into – and between – jobs….

Diane Lightfoot interviews Oliver Holbourn, CEO, RBS International

Our annual conference Back to the future: How should employers respond to “the new normal”? sponsored by NatWest is on Wednesday 28 June. In the run up to the event, Oliver Holbourn, CEO of RBS International talks to BDF CEO Diane Lightfoot about what NatWest is doing to recruit and retain disabled graduates, how businesses…

Don’t take the wrong message from ADHD headlines

BBC’s Panorama documentary about private ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) clinics caused some controversy in recent weeks by looking at the issue of whether ADHD was over- or mis-diagnosed, prompting a storm of debate in the press and on social media.   For some, it reinforced the misguided narrative that ADHD has become a kind of…

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