Celebrities having affairs with their nannies, bodyguards, personal assistants – it’s nothing new. Since the beginning of cinema, celebrities have been having affairs and ending their marriages in the process for decades. Recently, Ben Affleck’s ‘stronger-than-strong’ marriage to Jennifer Garner broke down due to allegations of the former’s indiscretions with the family nanny. Jude Law, […]

The average FTSE 100 CEO?s pay climbed to ?4.964 million in 2014 – a staggering 183 times more than the average-earning worker in the UK, according to research by the think tank the High Pay Centre. The study also found that the 10 highest-paid CEOs were paid more than ?156 million between them. Despite this, […]

Heavy internet and mobile phone users are the most likely to lose concentration and forget important information – even when they?re not using the technology, a new study, published in the US journal Computers In Human Behaviour, suggests. It is not all down to the Internet and social media, as you would initially think, as […]

Less than half of businesses believe they have a duty of care to employee health, according to a recently released report from Morgan Redwood, with only 46% of firms regarding staff health as an employer?s responsibility. This is despite the fact that 82.8% of companies believe that business performance and staff wellbeing are connected. The […]

London Executive Offices has acquired The Sugar Building at 5 Cheapside next to St Paul?s Cathedral from Amsprop, Lord Sugar?s privately owned real estate vehicle. The octagonal office building, 40,126 sq. ft. in total over seven floors, has been acquired on a 15-year lease at an undisclosed rent. London Executive Offices, the capital?s most exclusive […]

With the latest Office for National Statistics figures revealing that 39.3 million adults are accessing the internet every day, the amount of employees demanding flexible working will only continue to rise as people have increasing access to high-quality internet. Companies must adapt to this change in work culture or they risk damaging growth and staff […]

Nearly two thirds (64%) of London-based workers have admitted they regularly book a whole day?s holiday to attend a health appointment – such as with a GP, dentist or physiotherapist – because they are too busy to attend during the working day, according to a Bupa study. A further quarter (28%) of the capital?s time-poor […]

Happy Friday All! As I write this I am on my third coffee of the day ? how come you may ask? Well last night I experienced the full hospitality of the ETM Group ? the fabulous hosts of our exclusive ?Gastro Gallop? evening – which consisted of four PA Club members visiting four ETM venues and sampling […]

Research by Scottish start-up Create eLearning shows that as much as ?56 billion is being lost in the UK every year to replace staff who leave their jobs due to poor training. With 40% of staff who receive poor or no training leaving a firm within a year, bringing in a comprehensive learning programme that […]

Another week and another celebrity v. ex-personal assistant lawsuit story is leaking out of Hollywood. Stan Lee, the Marvel comics mogul, and his wife and daughter are facing a lawsuit from a former personal assistant who alleges he was verbally abused while working for the family.The Spider-Man creator?s ex-PA Shawn Lukaszewicz claims he was subjected […]

According to new data provided by the UK?s leading independent job board CV-Library, the administration sector has the highest level of competition, with 57.3 applicants per job across the UK. Coming in second was the customer services sector with an average of 37 applicants per job, closely followed by the Distribution sector with 36.2. Lee […]

More than one in three (35%) office workers in the UK have admitted to finding their work away days boring, with over a third (37%) confessing they actually dread them, according to new statistics released by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).    Worryingly, more than one in nine office workers (12%) have even said that […]

The homemade packed lunch is becoming a thing of the past with fewer than one in 20 workers bringing their own lunch to work. According to Protecting.co.uk, this means employees are turning to unhealthy snack foods or are missing out on a midday meal altogether, resulting in health and productivity issues that could hit company […]

Post-election confidence has seen the demand for secretarial and support staff leap by as much as 33% across the UK in quarter two of this year, according to the Robert Walters UK Jobs Index. Growth in positions was fairly consistent across the country, with the North West seeing the biggest increase at 33%. London and […]

In the process of writing her new book, Jan Jones of the renowned Jan Jones Worldwide speakers bureau, asked herself the question: ?why do executives keep hiring lousy personal assistants?? It?s a question she asked herself after seeing a very experienced CEO make the same mistake for the third time in hiring a personal assistant […]

With the summer holidays kicking off, many families are heading to warmer climates for a much-needed break. However, new research shows that even travelling to a foreign country no longer guarantees employees can leave their work worries behind them. A survey of 1,000 UK employees by call-answering service alldayPA reveals one in four still communicate […]

Proven Legal Technologies – the corporate forensic investigation and e-disclosure firm has unveiled the top five things employees have stored on their smartphones, revealing the dark side of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Proven Legal Technologies? exercise involved the purchase of four random smartphones from eBay ? each from different sellers around the United Kingdom. […]

Where are my train tickets!? Does this sound familiar? You?ve got to book a return train trip to Manchester for two colleagues later in the week, another for your boss travelling to Birmingham next week and then a last-minute request for someone else to Nottingham for tomorrow? When you?re booking travel for multiple people who […]