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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 7th November 2007.
Not much in the Queen’s Speech to cheer businesses this year, I’m afraid. More training for younger employees, funded by…er…anyway, also there’s going to be an inquiry on whether we need all the red tape introduced by Gordy and his predecessor.
I’m all for an inquiry into red tape. The only problem that I can see [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 22nd June 2007.
By 2012 5.5 million people in the UK will be working from home, according to the latest research from the Future Laboratory, commissioned by Microsoft.
A big number for sure, but only a relatively small proportion of the 91% interviewed who said they’d rather escape the office to work from home, or perhaps outdoors.
Outdoors working is [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 29th May 2007.
When you put bloggers, business and the sack together you’ve normally got a good story, but has a recent survey from Croner over-exaggerated the risk that blogging employees pose to business and their own job security?
According to the research from YouGov commissioned by Croner, 39% of employees who have personal blogs are risking the sack by posting [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 18th May 2007.
If you’re in the office today, what are you doing? Leave at lunchtime, head for your kitchen table, laptop in hand, and start working from home for the rest of the afternoon.
Today, is of course, National Work From Home Day, part of a week of activities run by Work Wise UK, a non-profit organisation that [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 2nd May 2007.
Now that was interesting. I’ve just got back from giving a talk at London’s Dorchester Hotel on ‘the project-based economy’ to a group of accountants. The idea was that a lot of well-connected and senior people from banks and elsewhere shared their thoughts on the way the economy was evolving and I put something in [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 10th April 2007.
Research released today by Croner claims to have found that businesses are not attracting top class talent because of a fundamental failure to understand what people want from an employer.
How to recruit the right people for your business has long been the subject of some mighty tomes and controversy. McKinsey and others characterised it as the war for [...]
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