The workplace is not always a bed of roses. Whatever your working environment – office, construction site, kitchen or care home – work comes with any number of stresses, tensions and personal differences. Workplace bullying can be a part of that.It’s how we relate with our closest colleagues that’s often the direct source of most
Employers are reducing recruitment now to avoid paying the new ‘national living wage’ minimum rate of £7.20, according to a new survey.How far would your business go to avoid applying a pay rise? A recent survey of over two thousand employers by Manpower said that employers are trying to minimise the extra costs by cutting
You’ve probably heard about zero hours contracts, but the details might not have sunk in. It’s all pretty vague, uninteresting and unclear to many people. In fact, that lack of transparency is at the heart of the issue.But it helps anyone in their employment freedom and rights as a worker in the UK to know
It’s the time of year when a migration of students to universities begins anew. While the appeal of university life appears relatively undimmed for plenty of young people wanting to leave the nest and make a new life for themselves, there’s an increasingly vocal side asking if university is important to career success. NotGoingToUni is
A good education is important. Children should begin to learn from an early age the importance of knowledge, skills and experiences, as well as their practical application in the real world. As a rule, everyone respects this. But working life amounts to much more than the handful of letters or numbers that represent exam grades.A
Whether you spend too much time sitting down in an office, too much time standing up in a kitchen, or take more risks than advisable on the construction site, there are usually ways of improving personal health and minimising risk in in the workplace.We’ve long heard of talk and research connecting the time spent sitting
