A 12-year study finds that predominantly standing occupations carry nearly twice the risk of incident heart disease compared with sitting jobs. It’s time to treat seating as a workers’ rights issue.
A major study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed a surprising risk for workers who spend their days on their feet: for many, the bigger danger may be too much standing.
The Trump administration's decision to strip chairs from TSA checkpoints isn't about security — it's about control. And the workers are fighting back.
Union officials with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) TSA Council 100 have launched a campaign demanding the agency restore seating for officers who screen millions of travelers daily. The chairs were unilaterally removed on September 25, with TSA officials claiming that "maintaining a standing posture helps reinforce professionalism, attentiveness and active engagement with passengers".
The union isn't buying it.
Nearly a million people in the UK go to work each day through an employment agency. On paper, they have rights. The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 entitle them to equal basic pay and working conditions after twelve weeks in the same role. The Swedish derogation — the loophole that once allowed agencies to pay workers less between assignments — was repealed in 2020. The law, we are told, protects them.
But the real story of agency work in the UK is not about rights on paper. It is about what happens when employers are allowed to control workers without ever having to manage them. Agency staffing is not just a flexible hiring tool. It is a management avoidance strategy. And it is failing workers.
Written by Lyndsey McLaughlin – HR Manager
When your employer decides they no longer want you in the job, there is, unfortunately, not a lot you can do about it.
Managers will often use subtle tactics to try and get you to leave, so they don’t need to go through the process of sacking you, which can lead to other issues, such as employment tribunal claims. These are some signs that your employer might be trying to encourage you to leave.
Walk into almost any modern workplace, and you will hear it: the relentless hum of jargon, buzzwords, and empty corporate speak. "Let's circle back on that." "We need to leverage our core competencies." "Let's take this offline." At best, it is mildly annoying. At worst, this pervasive "corporate bullshit" is actively undermining leadership effectiveness - obstructing clear communication, eroding trust, damaging credibility, and creating cultures where genuine leadership cannot flourish.
Effective leadership depends on clarity, authenticity, and the ability to inspire and guide others towards shared goals. Yet, when leaders communicate in ways that are semantically empty and functionally misleading, they sabotage their own effectiveness. The evidence is clear: corporate bullshit is not a harmless quirk of office culture. It is a leadership failure in disguise, and recognising it is a critical step in becoming a more effective leader.