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Report: Could BrewDog’s Cancellation Trigger a Reckoning Across the Craft Beer Industry?

by Matthew Curtis

Last week, over 130 current and former employees of the UK’s largest indy brewery penned an open letter condemning the company's exploitative practices. Beer journalist Matthew Curtis asks whether this unprecedented action could have industry-wide implications.

A billboard with the text: 'The 4 day week is coming. Go tell your boss.'

Opinion: It’s Not Enough to Defend the Five-Day Week – We Must Demand Four

by Aidan Harper

Overworked Britons breathed a sigh of relief when the Tories abandoned rumoured plans to remove the 48-hour cap on the working week. This scare should shock us out of our complacency about working hours, writes Aidan Harper, and restart the fight for a 32-hour week.

Opinion: The Right to Work From Home Should Be a Demand Far Beyond the Pandemic

by James McAsh

Once preserved as a perk of high-status jobs, for many workers the dubious obstacles to being permitted to work from home have evaporated during lockdown. On National Work from Home Day, James McAsh argues it ought to be a right, not a privilege - and not just for the duration of the pandemic.

NovaraFM: The All-Seeing Algorithm?

James Butler is joined by Novara Media’s own Craig Gent to discuss the rise of the algorithm, the new workplace under algorithmic management, and the scope and practice of workers’ resistance to new techniques of domination.

a man and woman sit back-to-back in their respective office cubicles, on their computers

3 Ways We Must Rethink Mental Health in the Workplace

by Luke Dukinfield

Tuesday was World Mental Health Day, and this year’s theme was ‘mental health in the workplace’. But while we've seen much chat of ‘talking about it’ and ‘breaking the taboo’, the relationship between work and mental health itself is rarely called into question.