Productivity is a key buzzword in any business and industry. It’s something on which many people, products and services are measured and marketed. How many times have you heard or read a line like ‘freeing up your time and boosting productivity’? How many CVs rave about their prolific nature?It can sound vague, but productivity can
The New National Living Wage of £7.20 might come as a shock to businesses that haven’t prepared well in advance. Many employers are currently in the process of planning pay restructuring to financially accommodate the introduction in April 2016.Employers canvassed in a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers said they will pay an extra £1.6m in wages next
Is your workplace managed by fear? During a recent BBC documentary about the leadership style of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, a section that looked at how effective fear is as a management technique. That is, making your staff scared of you. Former players admitted that this was a key element to instilling
Making young people as employable as possible: an enduring subject and a seemingly constant economic thorn in the UK’s side. This has been constantly discussed and debated at local, regional and national levels, but how far has it been practically addressed?Framed within the issue of skills shortages in technology and engineering, especially in south Wales,
Childcare is expensive. This has a significant impact on the jobs market, the main result being that many new mothers are prevented from returning to work because the domestic sums simply don’t add up. Balancing work and childcare is tricky problem that affects plenty of people.A new survey by jobs site working mums.co.uk recently found
The workplace is not always a bed of roses. Whatever your working environment – office, construction site, kitchen or care home – work comes with any number of stresses, tensions and personal differences. Workplace bullying can be a part of that.It’s how we relate with our closest colleagues that’s often the direct source of most
Employers are reducing recruitment now to avoid paying the new ‘national living wage’ minimum rate of £7.20, according to a new survey.How far would your business go to avoid applying a pay rise? A recent survey of over two thousand employers by Manpower said that employers are trying to minimise the extra costs by cutting
You’ve probably heard about zero hours contracts, but the details might not have sunk in. It’s all pretty vague, uninteresting and unclear to many people. In fact, that lack of transparency is at the heart of the issue.But it helps anyone in their employment freedom and rights as a worker in the UK to know
It’s the time of year when a migration of students to universities begins anew. While the appeal of university life appears relatively undimmed for plenty of young people wanting to leave the nest and make a new life for themselves, there’s an increasingly vocal side asking if university is important to career success. NotGoingToUni is
A good education is important. Children should begin to learn from an early age the importance of knowledge, skills and experiences, as well as their practical application in the real world. As a rule, everyone respects this. But working life amounts to much more than the handful of letters or numbers that represent exam grades.A
