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After reviewing staff capacities to help people work "at their highest agency", an employer has found 26% of its extended leadership team's work could be simplified.

Many employers jumping on the four-day week "bandwagon" are ignoring what made initial trials successful: an individual approach to flexibility, an expert says.

Many organisations lose their sense of purpose over time, but reconnecting employees to meaningful work improves their performance, productivity, and financial results, a workplace strategist says.

• Hybrid work improving mental health, productivity
  
• Parental leave equality requires "real" cultural shift
  
• Disability "ignorance" driving down productivity

An employer is experimenting with the athletic concept of 'rest and recovery', to see how it might improve performance levels and reduce burnout risks.

A significant divide between employees' and CEOs' perceptions of workplace mental health support suggests employers must do more to communicate their benefits, a global people leader says.

Hustle culture is making a comeback in workplaces and possibly for good reasons, but employees can "only tolerate so much for so long", says a psychologist.

Too many workplaces now suffer from 'productivity paranoia', where leaders believe there's been a drop in work activity, and employees feel like their every move is being scrutinised.

Short-term performance measures and incentives implemented under the guise of "transformational change" embed toxicity in a workplace, but this can be remedied, an academic says.

Even high performers can only work in peak mode for about two hours at a time, and risk tipping the balance from "good stress" to "bad stress" when they don't, a leading coach warns.