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Workers 'tired of emails'
7:00am Saturday 6th December 2008
WORKERS are becoming tired of receiving and writing so many emails and are increasingly favouring face-to-face communication, according to a new report.
Comments (0)Plumbers and electricians 'happiest in their work'
7:00am Saturday 6th December 2008
Plumbers and electricians are most likely to find their jobs stimulating, while human resources staff are likely to be the unhappiest workers, according to a new study.
More cash to take apprentices
7:00am Saturday 6th December 2008
EMPLOYERS are to be offered more money to take on apprentices under moves to increase the number of trainees to fill skills gaps.
TUC calls for £6.10 minimum wage
7:00am Saturday 6th December 2008
THE minimum wage should increase to £6.10 an hour next year and to £6.50 in 2010 and the age for being paid the statutory adult rate should be lowered, the TUC says.
Working mums’ balancing act
7:00am Saturday 22nd November 2008
NO new mum finds balancing work and childcare easy. Even the rich and beautiful actress Angelina Jolie admitted last week she intends to focus on her six children, rather than her career for the next few years.
Gloomy outlook on jobs
7:00am Saturday 15th November 2008
Job creation is at a "virtual standstill" as employers become increasingly gloomy about prospects for the economy in the wake of the worsening downturn, while smaller firms are cutting staff for the first time in 18 months, new research has revealed.
In search of serenity – at work
7:00am Saturday 15th November 2008
WHEN it comes to serenity, work is often the last place you'd think to find it. But employees who are "self-connected" and demonstrate an "inner serenity" are more resistant to stress, accept the unpredictability of modern business life, promote harmony and energy and are better workers as a result, a new study has found.
Misery of workplace stress
7:00am Saturday 1st November 2008
STRESS or overwork are being reported to union safety reps in offices and factories across the UK, especially among the government's own employees, new research shows.
Are you working in your dream job?
7:00am Saturday 25th October 2008
Research from fish4jobs (www.fish4jobs.co.uk) can confirm that despite most Brits not working in their dream job (86%), we are actually quite content with our lot. Most of those interviewed said that they wouldn’t retrain to get their dream job (57%).
Students forced to work
7:00am Saturday 25th October 2008
IT SEEMS that the much-maligned student layabout – who chooses to lie in rather than attend lectures, then spends all their loan at the pub – is now only the stuff of legend.
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