# policy
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0:01Can 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· 0:01–14:2123:33If Dr. Cheryl were Minister for MeetingsAl Elliott: Let's imagine that the Prime Minister of the UK just suddenly appoints you the Minister for Meetings. And so you are allowed to set, you're allowed to set the criteria for a meeting, then it's illegal to breaEP 205 · 12 Jun 2025·interview· 23:33–25:3541:58Workplace Surgery: The unlimited holiday trapLeanne Elliott: We don't like ambiguity. We don't like uncertainty. We don't know how to deal with it, how to react to it. It's just not, it's not great. The intention behind an unlimited holiday policy is really, I get EP 176 · 4 Mar 2025·workplace surgery· 41:58–45:5521:09Flexible work as a two-way doorLeanne Elliott: Flexible work is a 2-way door Al Elliott: Let me ask you then, because you've talked there about 2-way door, there's another aspect of flexible work that seems to fit in with this, which is the 4-day workEP 156 · 24 Dec 2024·other· 21:09–23:1556:55The leveling up agenda — and a mistake we've madeLeanne Elliott: Actually, don't look— doing it. I mean, the leveling up agenda. One of the great mistakes I think that's been made is that everybody said in order to make these poor places richer, we need to have businesEP 156 · 24 Dec 2024·other· 56:55–58:3320:50Should leaders define a dress code?Al Elliott: Okay, let's go into this thorny subject. As a leader or business owner or manager, should I be defining a dress code? It kind of feels like I'm telling people how to dress for work, and that doesn't feel likeEP 149 · 28 Nov 2024·interview· 20:50–25:1010:48The Retirement Age DebateLeanne Elliott: Well, I saw something this week. In 2027, which isn't that, isn't that far away now, just a couple of years, uh, we are going to have a record number of Americans about to turn 65. Um, the question is, shEP 109 · 25 Jun 2024·news roundup· 10:48–15:27
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