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Coronavirus: The real impact of self-isolation
1. Watch Professor Kimberley Brownlee from the Department of Philosophy discussing the impact that isolation may have on those self-isolating (BBC Newsnight, 13 March, 2020, from 28 minutes onwards).
Coronavirus: Could companies such as Dyson, JCB and Rolls Royce make ventilators?
Hear from Professor Robert Harrison from WMG as he talks to the Daily Mail about the possibility of converting production lines.
New report from Warwick Institute for Employment Research on European working conditions
Eurofound has published a new report on Upward Convergence in Working Conditions in Europe. The project was led by IER (Prof. Chris Warhurst and Dr Sally Wright) and included colleagues from the University of Salamanca led by Prof. Rafa Munoz de Bustillo Llorente.
The research found upward convergence has occurred for the EU as a whole for six of the seven dimensions of working conditions: physical environment, work intensity, working time, social environment, skills and discretion, prospects and earnings. However country differences exist within the EU.