Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was sentenced to eight months of home detention in New Zealand on Thursday after pleading guilty to threatening to kill his personal assistant and to possessing drugs. The court was told how the 61-year-old Australian rock star phoned the former employee last year and said, “I?m going to come over […]

Research revealed by Loughborough University and its conference and events wing imago has clearly demonstrated that the meetings industry has a long-term place in the commercial world. The research, which was conducted in conjunction with The Right Solution, measures the value of face-to-face communication amongst a sample of more than 750 event organisers, delegates, graduate […]

New research carried out amongst 1,007 office based employees in UK private companies by Ricoh UK and Censuswide suggests that only 25 per cent of British employees feel productive when working from home and nine per cent in other offices. Mobile working is not seeing its full potential; with three quarters of employees feeling less […]

Has your manager jetted off on holiday and left you in charge?  Being asked to step in while they?re away, be it on business, sabbatical or holiday can be an intimidating prospect – but an exciting one too. Such an opportunity rarely comes along but when it does, run with it. It?s your chance to […]

More than 11 million working days were lost in 2013/2014 due to stress, anxiety and depression across the UK and one in four people experience some form of mental health disorder in the course of a year, according to research carried out by the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Work-related stress, as defined by the LFS, […]

Six out of 10 (59.95%) UK office workers suffer from homesickness when working away from home, new national research has revealed. More than 10% of those surveyed say they?ve missed home so much it made them want to change jobs. The research conducted by hotel booking specialist LateRooms.com reveals some mixed feelings from employees when […]