Professor Kevin Murphy

University of Limerick

Professor Kevin Murphy is the Kemmy Chair of Work and Employment Studies at the University of Limerick

Would you commute 1,000 miles to your job?

Starbucks' decision to give their new boss a jet for his commute to the office shows a strong and extreme bias against remote work

There are several reasons to be concerned about this workplace trend as firms seek to push employees to return full-time to the office

It's often assumed that reductions in the number of hours worked must mean a reduction in pay, but this does not have to be the case

There are three main reaons why bosses and managers are so insistent on getting employees back to the office

Successful trials of a 4 day working week model support the idea that this can workplace improve productivity and satisfaction

Quiet hiring may be a new buzzword, but training and developing existing employees to do other tasks is very much an old idea

As the recent Wells Fargo case shows, employer surveillance of workers raises many important questions

Organisations that impose return-to-office mandates face the catastrophic possibility of losing their most valuable workers

Middle managers occupy a difficult place in organisations with a job that pulls them in so many different directions at once

There are many reasons why so many of us might stay in jobs that we find unsatisfying and stressful