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    • Gill Dix: Continuing the steps to gender equality
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    • Sir Brendan Barber: Let's talk about true leaders
    • Julie Dennis: LGBT History Month - Why I'm proud to be a LGBT+ Ally
    • Simone Cheng: Are robots in the workplace really that big of a threat?
    • Abigail Hirshman: Not waiting for the 'ow' moment
    • David Webb: Don't let age catch-up on you
    • Susan Raftery: Tis the season... to wear jumpers
    • Julie Dennis: Becoming a Disability Confident Leader
    • 'Better' training critical for tackling sexual harassment at work
    • Sir Brendan Barber: Performance management tries hard but has lost its identity
    • Simone Cheng: Addressing bullying in the present and future workplace: back to the basics
    • Martin Coyd: Mental Health and Me
    • Sir Brendan Barber: In the real world there are real people
    • Marina Glasgow: Reducing the risk of dementia - let's all do what we can
    • Suzy McCormick: Why people, and not just policy, can make a difference to workplace mental health
    • Sir Brendan Barber: "It's going to get better, honest" - how we can start to build trust in leadership
    • Sir Brendan Barber: 140,000 new dads and the 'who works, who cares' dynamic
    • Michele Piertney: The wheel of fortune and wellbeing
    • Tracey Moss: An employee's experience of suspension
    • Josh Hudson: Suspension at work - the last resort?
    • Sir Brendan Barber: This is the modern world of work (and we need to respond quickly)
    • Denise Keating: Don't hide from religion or belief
    • Loraine Martins MBE FRSA: My thoughts on Acas' religion or belief discrimination guidance
    • John Palmer: Why Whoopi Goldberg can do no wrong
    • Abigail Hirshman: The new landscape of mental health
    • Natalie Cutler: Me, my mental health and my line manager
    • Sir Brendan Barber: "We are all culpable" - tackling sexual harassment at work
    • Kirsty Fitzjohn: Working with Diabetes
    • Lucie Garvin: Our network is helping to make LGBT+ history at Acas
    • Adrian Wakeling: Mental health at work: A broom cupboard exit
    • Sir Brendan Barber: Workplace predictions for 2018
    • Amanda Boyd: Help for small businesses to navigate complexities of pregnancy law
    • Tom Neil: Helping small businesses manage staff effectively
    • Paul Beard: GDPR is coming for you!
    • Simone Cheng: Losing or tech-ing control?
    • Julie Dennis: Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: employers need to create inclusive workplaces
    • Poppy Jaman: Taking a whole organisational approach to mental health
    • Sir Brendan Barber: Let's all thrive in good work
    • Tom Neil: Talking about mental health: making it the new normal
    • Adrian Wakeling: Mental health at work: another inconvenient truth?
    • Wendy Canham: Mental health blog
    • Kirstie Axtens: Finding flexibility in every role
    • Adrian Wakeling: In recovery - the diary of an email addict
    • Gill Dix: Lifting the lid on flexible working
    • Sue Terry: Small things mean a lot
    • Kim Humberstone: Transitioning in the workplace
    • Steph Calvert: Understanding transgender and non-binary gender identities
    • Verity Davidge: Employers should be reading up on the #newtowork campaign too
    • Annie Russell and Clare Carter: A week of two halves
    • Tom Neil: Being flexible with flexibility
    • Lucie Garvin: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most inclusive of them all?
    • Neil Carberry: Making sure reporting works for you and your staff
    • Nita Clarke OBE: What's the connection between new workplace technologies and employment relations?
    • Kate Nowicki: The gender pay gap - can the tortoise become a hare?
    • Audrey Williams: Don't sweat the small stuff
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    • Alex Newton: Young people - when does a label become unhelpful?
    • Tom Cogan: My first month at Acas
    • Damian Warbuton: "Breast flash Police Chief keeps job"
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    • Terry Duffy - Who says being two faced is wrong?
    • John Bidder: Christmas Jumper Day and Dress Code
    • Jane Abraham: Mental Health at Work: An Agenda for Change
    • Kate Nowicki: Walking and Working Towards Better Mental Health
    • Gill Dix: Good old fashioned accessibility
    • Sir Brendan Barber: Workplace predictions for 2017
    • Chris O'Sullivan: Time to look to the positive whilst addressing the challenges that remain
    • Susan Raftery: Flat shoes, brown shoes... as long as they're the right shoes
    • Sally Payne and Richard Todd: Dyspraxia in the workplace - an untapped talent
    • Emma Jones: Autism at work
    • Margaret Malpas: Dyslexia at work
    • Nancy Doyle: Neurodiversity is a phenomenon whose time has come
    • Rachel Pinto: Perfectionism at work....explained
    • Sir Brendan Barber: Workers on Boards - Talking points
    • Rich Jones: The art of conducting investigations
    • Abigail Hirshman: Why does this job matter?
    • Michele Piertney: Domestic violence: a workplace perspective
    • Tom Neil: Learning how to manage people
    • Ruth Kalbraier: My First Job
    • Terry Duffy: Citius, Altius, Fortius
    • Susan Raftery: Managing dementia in the workplace
    • Kate Nowicki: Absence makes the heart grow fonder
    • Adrian Wakeling: Scratching backs or tugging forelocks?
    • Damian Warbuton: It's just not fair!
    • Carole Sayer: We're busier than ever, but are we being more productive?
    • Gill Dix: Mind the gap(s)
    • Abigail Hirshman: Supreme Leader or David Brent?
    • Lucienne Jones: The more things change...
    • Philippa Newis: Resolving conflict - is there such thing as 'too much too soon'?
    • Jon Dews: How to manage outsourcing effectively
    • Adrian Wakeling: Disability and employment: heart v head?
    • Rachel Pinto: Bridging the disability employment gap
    • Kate Nowicki: Grasping the nettle - tackling extreme behaviour at work
    • Emma Birchall: Employee voice - How organisations can really start listening to their people
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    • Rachel Pinto: Mental health awareness: a work in progress?
    • Jill Coyne: What's so special about Younger Workers?
    • Ralph Fevre: Our Most Important Resource?
    • Gill Dix: The National Living Wage - wage floor or productivity ceiling?
    • Damian Warbuton: It's got to be perfect - hasn't it?
    • Sir Brendan Barber: The language of trust
    • Jonathan Hamberger: A specific statutory remedy for workplace bullying? The Australian experience.
    • Sir Brendan Barber: The little 'big picture'
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    • David Webb: Some people can still tend to shy away from disability
    • Sir Brendan Barber: Pay and productivity
    • Susan Clews: Early Conciliation - business as usual
    • David Taylor: A two-way conversation - making sure youth employment works for all
    • David Taylor: Bullying: time for a climate change?
    • Gill Dix: Standing up to the productivity challenge
    • Sir Brendan Barber: 'Going walkabout'
    • Rachel Pinto: Perks of the job?
    • Adrian Wakeling: Let's update the HSE Management Stress Standards
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    • Sir Brendan Barber: Resolving workplace conflict
    • Adrian Wakeling: The value of lived experience
    • Sir Brendan Barber: What feels fair?
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    • Caroline Waters: building better business
    • Sarah Veale, TUC: Diversity guidance and support
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    • Sir Brendan Barber: Workplace predictions for 2015
    • Bronwyn McKenna: Acas - The Gatekeeper?
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    • Consultation at work - a response to Gill Dix: Duncan Adam
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    • Preparing for the future world of work: Rachel Pinto
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    • The OECD and SMEs: the great mental health divide - Professor Roy Sainsbury
    • Raising skills up the business agenda: Rachel Pinto
    • Zero-hours contracts: what callers to the Acas helpline are saying - Adrian Wakeling
    • The changing face of Employment Relations: Rachel Pinto
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The Acas Blog

Acas experts and guest bloggers share their views, experiences and insights on the world of employment relations, including areas such as conflict management, health and wellbeing, employee engagement and the future of work.

We invite you to comment on the blogs below.

Please note the views expressed in the blogs are those of the individual bloggers and do not necessarily reflect those of the Acas Council.

• Abigail Hirshman: The new landscape of mental health

  Monday 14 May 2018

  Abigail Hirshman, Senior Adviser at Acas discusses mental health.

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• Sir Brendan Barber: "We are all culpable" - tackling sexual harassment at work

  Wednesday 2 May 2018

  "Many of you, like me, will be determined to transform some of the toxic workplaces so widely reported in the media. But there is a real sense of looking around and thinking 'how did we get here?'"

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• Kirsty Fitzjohn: Working with Diabetes

  Friday 13 April 2018

  Kirsty Fitzjohn, Regional Publicity Manager for Acas East of England, based in Mildenhall, Suffolk discusses the ways employers can support their employees with diabetes in the workplace.

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• Lucie Garvin: Our network is helping to make LGBT+ history at Acas

  Wednesday 21 February 2018

  Lucie Garvin, Helpline Knowledge Manager at Acas discusses creating an inclusive work environment for the LGBT+ community.

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• Adrian Wakeling: Mental health at work: A broom cupboard exit

  Thursday 1 February 2018

  Adrian Wakeling, Senior Policy Analyst at Acas, discusses mental health at work.

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