Professor Kevin Murphy

University of Limerick

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

How quiet hiring is shaping your workplace

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

Workers of different ages have different experiences, skills and knowledge and we should learn to take advantage of this

The turmoil in the workplace over political views represents an extension of the growing politicisation of corporate life

If organisations won't create safe, welcoming and positive workplaces, they shouldn't be surprised if employees won't put up with it

It turns out that the work attitudes we often attribute to Gen Z workers are widely shared across generations.

Businesses are increasingly relying on hot desks or office hoteling when employees are back in the workplace.