IER News & blogs
Better employee wellbeing
Along with Rand Europe colleague Christian von Stolk, IER Director Chris Warhurst gave a talk this year’s .
Promoting the drive to improve the healthiness of jobs, their talk – ‘Why work needs to shape up: redesigning jobs for better employee wellbeing’ – is part of their joint advocacy of improving the physical and mental healthiness of jobs.
Future of work in the UK

In March, IER Director Chris Warhurst was invited to give a talk to the ACAS East Midlands Conference on the role of good work in the future of work in the UK.
The focus was on the role of good work in post Covid economic recovery and renewal.
The Quality of Working Life Revisited
Along with colleagues David Guest from King’s College London and Angie Knox from Sydney University, IER’s Chris Warhurst has published a journal virtual special issue that re-evaluates classic articles on the quality of working life published in Human Relations over the past 50 years.
Read more about the introduction to the special issue and all the articles .
Manifesto for a new quality of working life
With Sydney University based IER Honorary Associate Professor Dr Angie Knox, IER’s Chris Warhurst has published an article in the FT-50 journal Human Relations that calls for a new quality of working life that improves routine jobs and precarious employment.
Read the article .
Balancing job creation and job quality post-Covid
Director of IER, Chris Warhurst, gave a keynote talk in August on the need for governments to develop a balanced economic recovery and growth policy that
The talk – ‘Keeping the faith: Covid, job quality and workplace management practices’ – was delivered to the Cedefop, Eurofound and IZA Conference on on 21 August 2020 promotes both job creation and job quality in the face of the looming jobs crisis post-Covid.