Truth, Lies & Work

# employment

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9:24Why autistic graduates struggle entering the workplaceLaura Dean: Absolutely. My doctoral work looked at how graduates enter the workplace, how autistic graduates, you know, struggle with that entry into the graduate workplace. It was very interesting looking at statistics EP 289 · 2 Apr 2026·interview· 9:24–12:3311:51Story of the Year: The Great Employment HeistAl Elliott: Yeah. And I suppose there's also an element of ego, of, um, protecting your position of, you know, if someone, if someone's not particularly confident, but they're a CEO, they need to make sure that everyone EP 260 · 23 Dec 2025·other· 11:51–14:550:01Can the government really Keep Britain Working?Al Elliott: Coming up in This Week in Work. Leanne Elliott: A major new government report tackles one of the UK's biggest workforce challenges: why half a million more people have left work due to long-term sickness sincEP 250 · 18 Nov 2025·news roundup· 0:01–14:2114:52The three-month notice period problemLeanne Elliott: How do you feel about a 3-month notice period, Al? Al Elliott: Uh, I haven't had a job since 2002. I don't really understand. I don't even know what notice period is. Notice period is when you have to, yoEP 244 · 28 Oct 2025·news roundup· 14:52–22:3344:59The Brewery Built to Employ People with DisabilitiesMeghan French Dunbar: The one that I mentioned of, we had, there was a brewery in North Carolina that they built the brewery to employ active rival gang members because the founder had discovered that the reason that theEP 229 · 4 Sept 2025·interview· 44:59–49:5020:23The silent exodus: nearly a million people have left the UK workforceLeanne Elliott: After COVID, you'd have seen a lot in the paper of people leaving the workplace. They were mainly people who were 50+, our experienced workers. who we need in the workplace, they were leaving. And probablEP 58 · 28 Sept 2023·other· 20:23–27:23

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