The PA Expo is the only free-to-attend event in the North of England that brings together executive support professionals from around the UK to take advantage of ample networking opportunities and to benefit from meeting with leading professionals in the industry. The PA Expo attendees will have the opportunity to meet with more than 150 exhibitors, […]

Jane Lockwood, PA to the Marketing Director at Imperial Tobacco booked a client entertainment event with Sail Royal Greenwich Ltd in 2015. The team provided her guests with a private party on a historic tall-masted ship. Here’s what she had to say about her experience: “A wonderful wonderful day out. The captain and his staff […]

Win Billy Joel tickets here with Holiday Inn London – Wembley, or enjoy SMITH’s of Spitalfield and its top-floor terrace during the summer months. Plus, get the chance to discover Hackney House’s perfect venue for any event and receive a 20% discount on hire rates with our London Top Picks ‘SMITHS’ of Smithfield is where […]

Companies that have implemented a programme for the strategic management of meetings (SMM) say their programmes are successful, though they also say there is still more work to do. The key benefits of an SMM programme are greater transparency of spend, cost reductions, improved compliance, risk mitigation and, ultimately, improved effectiveness of their meetings and […]

Skyline Worldwide continues to go from strength to strength, as demonstrated by the serviced apartment provider’s announcement of the mid-July opening of Carlow House, a new development situated in the midst of the area where the Camden Town King’s Cross/Euston and Regent’s Park districts meet. Carlow House, a former Edwardian-era warehouse converted to loft-style living […]

Nearly half of all employees say recruitment freezes have left them feeling under-resourced and under-staffed at work, leading to increased stress, research by MetLife Employee Benefits shows. Its study found 46% of employees believe their organisation has not recruited enough since the economic downturn, with 40% saying workplace stress would be reduced if employers took […]

Join the PA Life team and your fellow PAs for an evening of networking, canapés and drinks with a sample of corporate events at Bruton Place PizzaExpress in Mayfair, London on 19 July from 6pm-8pm. PizzaExpress is a restaurant group with more than 460 locations across the UK and over 40 overseas in Europe, Hong […]

Teams and individuals from across Yorkshire celebrated at last night as the winners of 18 categories were announced at the Yorkshire PA of the Year Awards, held at The Pavilion, Leeds United Football Ground – a ceremony headlined by former PA to John Lennon, May Pang and BBC Look North’s Tanya Arnold. Melanie Richardson, EA […]

It’s hard to believe June has come and gone and we’re now moving into July. This week has been fun for the PA Life team as we catch up on feedback from last week’s PA Life Training Day. We attended last night’s Yorkshire PA Awards ceremony, where we met some fabulous new friends and got […]

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on helpful apps. We focus on a variety of products that are useful for work, personal use, or both, providing our own thoughts on the apps and what you can do with them. This week’s spotlight: Dropbox. An intro to Dropbox Many of you will have heard of Dropbox […]

Organisations in the UK are unwittingly discriminating against, and subsequently alienating, a large proportion of the workforce by encouraging a work hard play hard culture, according to a leading diversity consultancy. The Clear Company has called on senior executives to review the impact such a culture is having on both their brand’s reputation and company […]

Rather than slipping quietly into retirement, managers should create new opportunities toward the end of their careers, Professor Mary Dean Lee from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University suggests. Professor Lee and her research team interviewed 100 executives and managers who had recently retired or were actively considering it and HR professionals from 24 […]

Being at work while you are ill may not be such a bad thing after all, suggests a new report on so-called ‘presenteeism’ by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES). The report challenges the idea that workers have to be 100% fit before going back to work and argues that the workplace can have a […]

Office workers in the UK are spending increasing amounts of time preparing for and attending meetings – around 25% of their working week – according to new research from eShare. The survey of 1,005 office workers revealed that the average employee attends 3.7 meetings every week, spending one hour and nine minutes preparing and one hour […]

The latest American Time Use Survey reveals that while traditional gender roles have changed dramatically, the gap between how men and women spend their day is still vastly different. Men work more hours than women, while women spend more time doing household chores. The survey, which provides statistics to the US government, found that employed […]

Marriott’s acquisition of Starwood is set to change the hotel industry significantly. Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s (CWT) latest white paper shows corporate travel buyers need to start thinking about the implications now and start planning how it will change their travel programmes. Scott Brennan, CWT EVP and Head of Global Supplier Management said: “Consolidation in the […]

The latest ‘how green is your office’ survey from the Office Coffee Company reveals there’s still a lot more work to do to improve corporate social responsibility (CSR). More than 65% of respondents cited their office ‘could do more’ to be environmentally friendly. Only 27% claimed to be ‘doing everything’ they could to improve CSR. Almost 8% said […]

A survey commissioned by The Open University (OU) has revealed that one in four of the UK public is guilty of serial time wasters. Nearly three quarters (75%) of us claim to have more than 20 hours of free time every week, yet one in four (25%) admit to frittering away more than half of […]