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Why business leaders should watch Channel 4’s ‘The Hotel’
Watching the Grosvenor Hotel head for closure is like watching a car crash in slow motion. The inevitable end is made all the more painful as we come to like (and dislike) the documentary’s core...
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Ignore a fever, work through a cold?
Increasing numbers of British workers are so worried about losing their jobs that they’re trudging to work despite nursing bad colds or flu. The Fisherman’s Friends annual British cold and flu survey...
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Pensions auto-enrolment rules underestimated by SMEs
Firms are being warned not to underestimate the complexity and onerous rules of the new compulsory pensions auto-enrolment regime, which could see some companies being fined up to £10,000 a day. Small-...
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Smells like (a lack) of team spirit
Half of UK staff don’t feel that their organisation helps them develop good team working skills. While staff understand how their own work contributes to team targets one-fifth said they had never been...
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The ‘job-rich recession’ continues…
Hot on the heels of continuing bad news about the UK economy, a new report by recruitment firm the Venn Group suggests that there was a 5.2% increase in hiring levels across the UK in the last quarter...
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Beware your Facebook likes and interests
The role of social media in recruiting has always been controversial, with good and bad sides to it. In particular the potential for compromising material to be made available to potential or existing...
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Is an in-house mediation service worth it?
Creating an in-house mediation service could save money but it needs to be run efficiently. That’s the conclusion of a ground-breaking report by CMP Resolutions, which looks at the benefits of having...
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Female representation on boards directors – still some way to go!
If the improvement in female representation on the boards of FTSE 100 companies were given as a school report it would be ‘good performance but there’s room for improvement’. Two years ago Lord Davies’...
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Real-time information – compliance burden or strategic opportunity?
As HR teams face probably ‘the biggest shake-up to PAYE reporting in 70 years’ – the requirements to deliver real-time information (RTI) in place of end-of-year reporting of pay and tax information to...
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Changing public services requires effective leadership and staff engagement
Involving staff across the organisation is the only way to achieve a radical overhaul of public service delivery, according to a new report. The Public Sector People Managers’ Association (PPMA) and...
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