If you think your company has a 'sick note culture', you might just have a terrible management culture instead.

The vast majority of workplace dysfunction I have seen as an employment lawyer stemmed from incompetent or abusive leadership - not lazy employees.

If you really want to help disabled people into work and then retain them (and not by complaining about #sicknoteculture ) then might I recommend this excellent guide from the @cipd that I was privileged to assist with developing: gov.uk/government/pub…

People aren’t off sick because they’ve been given a fit note. They are given a fit note because they are off sick. I don’t see how changing the fit note system will make much difference. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Liverpool followers! Do you want to join a great sport with only a small risk of painful injury? facebook.com/events/s/open-… Come to our roller derby open day!

Calling recruitment and HR folk! I am researching how demand for flexible working is influencing recruitment practices and candidate expectations. Can you take my 10 minute survey? app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ljmu/flexibl… Shares appreciated.

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CEOs using four-day week to tackle burnout, survey finds – but is this an effective solution? peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/186897… via People Management Including some comments from me.

Woman of the Day suffragist and philanthropist Margaret Brown (1867-1932) of Missouri, a passenger on RMS Titanic when it sank OTD 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg. She urged the Quartermaster in charge of Lifeboat No. 6 to return for survivors and

Men. Sensible outfit in the colours of national flag.

Women. Pink (obvs) outfit that looks like it was designed for the beach not undertaking serious sport. But pink.

I think you misspelled armed robber, kidnapper and murderer.

Telegraph journalist Sophia Money-Coutts, of the Coutts dynasty, says young people have it too good.

Paul Nowak isn't having it.