Inside the workplace: first findings from the 2004 workplace employment relations survey (WERS 2004)

BARBARA KERSLEY, CARMEN ALPIN, JOHN FORTH, ALEX BRYSON, HELEN BEWLEY, GILL DIX, SARAH OXENBRIDGE This booklet reports the first findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), and provides information on what has changed inside British workplaces since 1998. WERS 2004 is the fifth in the series of surveys conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas), and the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). Previous surveys in the series were conducted in 1980, 1984, 1990 and 1998.