It’s no joke! Workplace ‘banter’ affects twice as many women – and four per cent have left their job because of it

Listen to our podcast with Kate Cooper (Head of Research, Policy and Standards at The Institute of Leadership & Management), Rajiv Joshi (Partner at Blake Morgan LLP) and Nicholas Lynch (Compliance and Leadership Consultant)

In this week's Podcast:

4,600 jobs to go at Rolls-Royce over the next two years, with middle managers bearing the brunt

Business secretary Greg Clark floats regulatory proposals for UK listed firms to publish their pay ratios between highest and lowest earners

Outgoing Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz describes successor Kevin Johnson as a "servant leader"

Builders on a site in Chertsey, turn up to work in skirts in protest at no-shorts clause in management's health-and-safety policy

In this week's Podcast:

PwC bans all-male shortlists for their job vacancies

BAME Starbucks staff tell Time magazine of their dissatisfaction with the company-wide diversity & inclusion training 

Walmart subsidises higher-education courses for their staff

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker says that his job could only be done by a man

In this week's Podcast...

• Report flags up Top 10 worst explanations for why FTSE 350 execs have failed to employ more women to their boards

• Ministry of Justice unveils major initiative to improve employability of ex-offenders

• Harvard professor Amy Cuddy says women should manage their body language at work more effectively to compete with men

• Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp says club will stand by embattled goalie Loris Karius following Champions League defeat

In this week's Podcast...

• Huge train timetables overhaul spawns commuting chaos

• Retail leaders continue to grapple with the challenge of doing business online

• Bosses in UK and overseas signal gloom over protectionist policies

• CEO tops list of jobs most suited to psychopaths

In this week's Podcast...

• MPs slam Carillion chiefs for hatching “rotten” corporate culture

• GMB stages protest over Amazon's “prison-like” working conditions

• East Coast Mainline goes back into government hands

• Bank of England deputy governor in ‘menopause’ gaffe

In this week's Podcast...

• DPD unveils new terms of employment following driver’s death

• Mental-health impacts of late payments upon SME chiefs are worsening, says campaign group

• New York entrepreneur levels staff benefits to tackle inequality

• Think tank urges UK government to give millennials £10K each

• Aussie finance firm slashes working day to five hours

In this week's Podcast...

• 44% of UK senior decision makers lack confidence in succession plans

• CIPD condemns "shocking" level of presenteeism in UK organisations

• Men wrongfully arrested in Philadelphia Starbucks reach deal with city to fund young-entrepreneurs scheme

• TalkTalk, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile flunk Ofcom customer service poll

• Scathing review for Sainsburys CEO’s song choice amid Asda merger revelations