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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

2016 is the year to love workplace technology

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Technology has made our personal lives much easier over the last year. Now itโ€™s time for work to be improved by innovations, according to VMwareโ€™s Noah Wasmer. In a guest column for Forbes, he predicts four things that will allow employees to love work in 2016. 1 Employees will be twice as productive in half […]

Sexism common at company parties

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Sexism is common at Christmas work parties but you do NOT have to put up with this unacceptable behaviour. The Equality Act 2010 protects employees from harassment at work-related social events.   Cornered by lecherous co-workers with wandering hands. Told loudly by a senior colleague that youโ€™re too โ€œhotโ€ to be part of the technical team. […]

Brits work one billion hours a week

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Recent Office of National Statistics figures show the UK has a record number of people in work clocking one billion hours each week. This is the first time the UK has reached the billion hours mark, with 31 million people now employed โ€“ the highest number since current records began in 1971. 74% of those […]

A healthy career change

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Personal training is the second most popular career path cosidered by job changers.   As the nationโ€™s thoughts turn to their goals for the new year, new research has revealed that almost 1 in 2 adults considering a career change is interested in becoming a personal trainer. A survey of 2,000 UK adults carried out […]

76% of employees paid for their Christmas party

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An alarming number of UK bosses made employees cough up for their own Christmas parties and many cancelled them altogether, according to research by One4all Rewards. 76% of workers were made to pay for the annual office knees-up, according to a survey of 2,009 UK workers. However with one in three employees confessing their company […]