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Majority of workers enjoy collaboration in the workplace and would like to do it more
New research has found that despite 75 % of businesses reviewing their structure to adapt to new ways of working , less than half of workers believe their organisation will change its approach to collaboration . A further , 28 % feel their organisation should change the way it collaborates but do not believe change will come . This new research was conducted by the leading AIpowered collaboration platform , Howspace .
The research asked 3,000 employees across 15 industries and seven countries about their experiences and attitudes to workplace collaboration . While other studies have focused on employee engagement , this focused on the state and impact of collaboration .
More than three-quarters of workers said they enjoyed collaboration in the workplace and almost half of workers believed they needed to collaborate more to be good at their job .
However , nearly a third of employees feel their organisation should change the way it collaborates , but don ’ t believe it will .
Against the backdrop of plummeting employee engagement , recognising employee needs is critical . Organisations must take action to improve collaboration across the board .
Ilkka Mäkitalo , CEO of Howspace , said : “ Many of today ’ s work and management practices are counterproductive and destructive for collaboration . While it is natural that leaders were seeking more control during the pandemic , the fact remains that people come to work to work together . Leadership needs to shift mindset from structure and control to one of designed collaboration that embraces both synchronous and asynchronous work . This requires inherently different management practices and working systems from where we are today .”
Average pay gap between men and women in the UK increases
The average pay disparity between male and female UK full time workers has stretched to 8.3 % according to The Office for National Statistics ( ONS ).
The ONS revealed that this is up from 7.7 % in April 2021 , although it is down from 9 % in April 2019 . the past two years , which have disproportionately affected women across all facets of their professional lives . Until now , the impact of the pandemic on women ’ s progress has been hard to quantify , however these latest gender pay gap figures highlight exactly why it ’ s important we maintain a stark focus on gender parity .”
The stats show that the gender pay gap is at its most between the highest earning men and their female equivalents – an eyewatering 15.5 % difference in pay . This is much higher than the gap among median earners ( 8.3 %) and the bottom 10 % of earners ( 3 %).
It ’ s not all bad news for high earning women – the gender pay gap between male and female managers , directors and senior officials has dropped to 10.6 % in 2022 from 16.3 % in 2019 – although there ’ s still a long way to go to pay equality . The ONS revealed that the gender pay gap is particularly stark for older members of the workforce . Full time workers aged between 40 and 49 witnessed a 10.9 % pay gap , compared with 3.2 % or less for those under 40 .
Agata Nowakowska , AVP EMEA at Skillsoft , said : “ Resolving gender disparity is complex , and has become even more so by the events of
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