Confirmation from the CIPD, should we need it, that the UK workforce is under more pressure than ever before. Its latest research survey puts workplace stress as the top cause of long-term absence, overtaking the previous contenders (musculoskeletal disorders and acute […]
Another day, another research report – this time highlighting the difference in absence rates between young employees and their older colleagues.
What are your levels of happiness at work? Did you bounce into work joyfully and end the day with the warm glow of a job well done? Or did you turn in reluctantly, fritter away your time and not really […]
I’m sorry I couldn’t write this blog post yesterday, but my pet rabbit escaped and I had to rescue him from the foxes in the woods.
There’s nothing like a deadline to concentrate the mind, so I’m giving you plenty of notice that changes are afoot to the PAYE legislation system from 2013 onwards.
Publication of the top 10 websites visited by Department for Transport staff while they are at work makes for interesting reading.
Several of my friends have been away on holiday this week – but I have to say I haven’t really missed them.
I was working yesterday with a colleague whose 18-year-old is on work experience at the HQ of a well-known retailer in London. She was both grateful and relieved that they not only sent her daughter home early, but also considered […]
There’s nothing like a row over holiday dates and managing staff leave to cause a bad atmosphere at work – although one stylist at hairdresser Toni & Guy may have taken her dissatisfaction a step too far.
So it’s a year today to the start of the Olympic Games… and not a day too soon for businesses to start planning for the impact it will have on their day-to-day operations.
