Mobile Firms Down Under
10 / 04 / 2015
Good ideas, well thought through and properly executed often give entrepreneurs a significant business advantage. All business owners have to keep a sharp eye on their costs and one of the major area of costs for growing business rent, business rates, utilities and even parking. Fixed premises can cost a lot of money – especially in winter time. That’s why...
Labour’s Proposal to Ban Zero Hours Contracts – Zero or Hero?
07 / 04 / 2015
Labour has proposed banning zero-hour contracts for employees working regular hours for longer than 12 weeks. This revises its previously proposed policy to entitle those working regular hours for 12 consecutive months to automatically move to a regular contract. Labour leader Ed Miliband said: “It [the practice of zero-hours contracts] is leaving people without a reliable income, not knowing from...
Axe Job Descriptions to Retain Top Talent
01 / 04 / 2015
The upturn in the economy and increase in hiring is creating a worrying trend. DID hiring strategies. Managers writing job descriptions designed for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder or split identities. The worst cases involve multiple personalities, not just two. And what is really worrying is that these DID skills focused job descriptions are adding fuel to the global skills...
1D Bereavement
30 / 03 / 2015
Last week Zayn Malik announced he was leaving boy band One Direction. Young girls were devastated, as were many older women and men. Zayn left the band’s tour due to stress announcing a few days later that he was leaving the band to have the life of ‘a normal 22 year old’. It’s not the first time a popular boy...
Workplace Worries: When Colleagues Fall Out
27 / 03 / 2015
The CIPD has just published research claiming that half of workers don’t like their colleagues! Surprising? Perhaps not if you work on Top Gear! Even in happy workplaces, there’s tension from time to time. Sometimes it gets really serious. That’s no fun for anyone, the business has to waste time sorting it out and productivity suffers. Most of the reasons...