
Multiple-job workers face widening gaps in dignity protections at work. New research argues current frameworks miss the realities of precarious multiple employment, leaving essential workers exposed to stress, stigma, and weak workplace protections.

ESSEC has launched a fully online executive AI master programme. The new course combines strategy, management, and AI capability across an 18-month format designed for working professionals.

EHL is launching a new degree for future restaurateurs globally. The two-year course brings together culinary arts, fine-dining guest experience, and restaurant management as hospitality education shifts towards shorter, practice-led pathways.

ICS.AI is offering universities wider governed student AI access nationwide. The company says the model removes a major cost barrier and extends enterprise-grade access once institutions deploy its staff platform.

Flexible workspace demand is now rising beyond London, Orega argues. As it approaches 25 years in business, the operator says regional economies and mature hybrid-working strategies are driving demand for premium office space with shorter commitments.

The UK jobs market may look flat, but the latest ONS data prompted a sharper message from employers and labour market specialists: hiring is getting harder, entry routes are narrowing, and younger workers are bearing the brunt.

February’s UK SME pay rose, but reform costs are looming. Employment Hero’s latest data points to stronger wages and hiring, but also to new cost pressures that could blunt the effect on household finances.

Utilities communicators are preparing to leave in unusually high numbers. Murray McIntosh’s latest survey suggests churn is building across a sector already under pressure on trust, transparency, sustainability, and public accountability.

AI can lift valuations while quietly eroding confidence inside organisations. The emerging tension is no longer technological capability alone, but whether companies can promise productivity, faster growth, and leaner structures to markets without convincing employees that the gains will be financed by diminished security, thinner career paths, and weaker reciprocity.

Energy apprenticeships are drawing unprecedented interest across the UK now. ScottishPower says applications for 150 roles topped 6,000, up 25%, as it expands hiring to support a £24bn clean energy and grid investment plan.