employment

Students working on an architectural model

Cambridge to Careers: Skills and support that take you further

25 Mar 2026

Cambridge University is ranked best in the UK 2026 for "producing the most employable graduates", as judged by recruiters at top companies around the...

Cambridge to Careers: Bringing it home

11 Mar 2026

Ben Carr’s Cambridge degree didn’t just benefit him academically, it also helped him build the practical skills he now uses on a daily basis as...

Riders and drivers in the UK gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay

03 Jun 2025

Anxiety over income and unfair feedback dominates working lives of delivery riders, drivers and “digital labour” workers in UK’s gig economy – with...

Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, historian argues

21 Jul 2023

Employment levels for people with learning disabilities in the UK are 5 to 10 times lower than they were a hundred years ago. And the experiences of...

Co-author Dr Eleanor Drage testing the 'personality machine' built by Cambridge undergraduates.

Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’, researchers argue

10 Oct 2022

Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.

‘Generation lockdown’ needs targeted help-to-work policies – global report

21 Oct 2021

Nations the world over are guilty of “policy inertia” when it comes to supporting young people who lost work or will struggle to enter the labour...

One in twenty workers are in ‘useless’ jobs – far fewer than previously thought

03 Jun 2021

The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves...

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak at a Covid-19 press conference. Sunak is credited with instigating the UK's 'furlough' job retention scheme.

Furlough ‘stemmed the tide’ of poor mental health during UK lockdown, study suggests

24 Jul 2020

Researchers say the UK government should ask employers to share out reduced hours rather than lose workers, in order to mitigate a looming mental...

Sheffield's Women of Steel statue during the pandemic

Opinion: Employers should cut hours not people during the pandemic

13 May 2020

If the UK emulated short-time working programmes in countries like Germany it would help mitigate the mental health as well as economic crises caused...

Younger workers hit harder by coronavirus economic shock in UK and US

03 Apr 2020

Those on low incomes are also more likely to have lost jobs or pay, and less able to complete work tasks from home. Researchers warn the COVID-19...

employment

Cambridge to Careers: Skills and support that take you further

Cambridge to Careers: Bringing it home

Riders and drivers in the UK gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay

Give more people with learning disabilities the chance to work, historian argues

Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’, researchers argue

‘Generation lockdown’ needs targeted help-to-work policies – global report

One in twenty workers are in ‘useless’ jobs – far fewer than previously thought

Furlough ‘stemmed the tide’ of poor mental health during UK lockdown, study suggests

Opinion: Employers should cut hours not people during the pandemic

Younger workers hit harder by coronavirus economic shock in UK and US

Connect with us

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge