By Rahat Zaidi, University of Calgary “For Eid we have to call in sick and I don’t like that. You should have the day off school. And everybody gets a …
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Opinion/Commentary
Ten years after the UK’s Modern Slavery Act, why has this ‘world-leading’ legislation had so little impact?
By Alex Balch, University of Liverpool The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act is ten years old on March 26. When it was passed, it was billed as “world-leading” legislation – …
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Theft, daydreaming and everything in between: most of us are a bit ‘deviant’ at work
By Brad Harris, HEC Paris Business School We usually think of workplace deviance as linked to “bad apples”–the troublemakers who egregiously slack off, steal from the company or openly clash …
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By Talar Moukhtarian, University of Warwick You’re in the middle of the afternoon, eyelids heavy, focus slipping. You close your eyes for half an hour and wake up feeling recharged. …
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By Marta M. Elvira, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra) and Godechot Olivier, Sciences Po Nike’s current CEO, Elliott Hill, began his career at the global footwear giant as an …
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By Stephan Manning, University of Sussex and Vassiliki Bamiatzi, University of Sussex Russia’s war against Ukraine has changed how global firms respond to geopolitical events. Whereas in the past foreign …
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Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and health care expenses
By Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue impaired their judgment. Similarly, …
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ImmigrationOpinion/Commentary
Canada’s immigration process is increasingly digitized, but that can make if difficult to navigate
By Ashika Niraula, Toronto Metropolitan University Many countries are engaged in a global race to attract skilled and talented workers from around the world. But Canada is at risk of …
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By François Larocque, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Stéphanie Chouinard, Queen’s University, Ontario, and Yan Campagnolo, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Influential voices in the Canadian public sphere have been criticizing the …
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Opinion/Commentary
Trump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better
By James L. Perry, Indiana University On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks …