Shop Floor with Nick Peters talking to Dom Jackman, co-founder of Escape the City, about the growing discontent among young professionals with life on the treadmill and how he and his team help them escape into a life of great fulfilment.
Guests: Dom Jackman
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Show Floor with Nick Peters talking to Andrew Berwick of the Access Project on their programme to mentor and tutor children from disadvantaged backgrounds to attain the grades and confidence they need to go to top universities. Also talking with Sam Crooks of Credit Suisse about the tutoring and mentoring he gives to ambitious young student to achieve better grades.
Guests: Andrew Berwick,Sam Crooks
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Nick Peters hits the Shop Floor this week to talk to Duncan Exley, Executive Director of the Equality Trust about the massive advantage children of well-off parents enjoy compared with children of equal ability from less advantaged backgrounds.
Guests: Duncan Exley
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Nick Peters talks to Dr Jon Burchell, Senior Lecturer in Management from Sheffield University and Dr Joanne Cook from the University of Hull business school, about the voluntary sector in the UK.
Guests: Jon Burchell,Joanne Cook
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Nick Peters talking to David Finch, Senior Economic Analyst at social policy think tank, the Resolution Foundation, about the research they have been doing about the UK's state of employment.
Guests: David Finch
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Nick Peters talks to Steve Garelick from GMB about taxi company Uber and their decision to take them to court.
Guests: Steve Garelick
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Nick Peters looks into discrimination in the workplace, particularly with regards to pregnancy and maternity leave. To help him find out more on this subject is Will Hadwen from Working Families.
Guests: Will Hadwen
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Nick Peters talks to Dr Matt Flynn from the university of Newcastle to discuss the gradual increase in the retirement age and the aging workforce that comes with it.
Guests: Matt Flynn
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Nick Peters looks into the idea of living to work rather then working to live, by talking to a man who decided to leave his workplace 9-5 to set up his own company doing what he loves.
Guests: Tim Bullen
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The government recently announced action is is going to undertake in order to help close the wage gap between different genders. Nick Peters is talking to Anne Perkins to discuss whether this is a good course of action for equality in the workplace.
Guests: Anne Perkins
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