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Long commutes costing firms a week’s worth of staff productivity

Productivity

24 May 2017

23 May 2017

Incoming General Data Protection Regulation and businesses are unaware

Eighty-four percent of UK small business owners and 43 percent of senior executives of large companies are unaware of the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation,...

23 May 2017

Gender segregation limiting apprenticeship opportunities

Gender bias colours students’ attitudes to apprenticeships. Six out of ten school leavers believe apprenticeship opportunities are in sectors with mainly male workforces. One in...

22 May 2017

Most women leave project management careers before reaching senior roles

Results of a recent survey into the project management industry reveals a significant gender gap in the industry with men in senior positions outnumbering women...

22 May 2017

Employees leaving because of mobile black spots

As today’s workforces become increasingly reliant on their mobile devices, a quarter (25 percent) of British office workers say they would consider moving jobs (or...

21 May 2017

Real wages fall for first time in three years

Following the news that CPI inflation jumped to 2.7 percent in April, today’s labour market numbers from the ONS revealed wages are now falling when...

21 May 2017

Only 1 in 4 people with a long-term mental illness are in work, says TUC

Only 1 in 4 (26.2 percent) people with a mental illness or phobia lasting for 12 months or more are in work, according to a...

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Employees more likely to go to work unwell than ‘pull a sickie’

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

20 May 2017

20 May 2017

Health & safety “at risk from Government’s Brexit plans”

The TUC has published a new briefing, Protecting Health and Safety after Brexit, which warns trade unionists and working people that health and safety protections...

19 May 2017

Businesses in panic over recruitment strategy

In a survey for global resourcing specialists, BPS World, has found that 30 percent of companies spend less than a day deciding on which recruitment...

19 May 2017

Zero hours contracts soar

According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) the number of people on so-called ‘zero hours contracts’ has soared in recent years, to over 900,000....

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Asperger’s – psychometric test placed candidate at disadvantage

Tribunals

18 May 2017

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