Presented by the Professional Planning Forum, the Contact Centre Innovation Awards 2008, offer recognition for work that has made a significant impact on contact centre operations and strategic development in the last year. Nominations are now invit  More...
27 September 2007 13:08

Bosses need to be on high alert on Tuesday afternoons as this is the time that employers go online to search for new jobs. A survey of 700 people conducted by recruitment website Fish4jobs found that productivity reached its lowest point at 3.15pm   More...
26 June 2007 16:20

Guru was delighted to receive correspondence from Disciple Sarah about a particularly choice application for a work experience placement. "We recently received the e-mail below from a student looking for a placement within our company. It certainly   More...
25 April 2007 18:14

UK businesses face huge staff turnover problems as links between employees and employers break down, a report has revealed. The report, Corporate Warming, by Adecco and the Institute of Employment Studies  has found that 45% of employees will leav  More...
24 April 2007 10:50

Legal experts have broadly defended immigration minister Liam Byrne over his new points-based work visa system – but not without caveats. Byrne was criticised by unions and immigrant groups when he announced in Sydney last week that the tough  More...
24 April 2007 10:39

UK workers are suffering from a 'seven-month itch' after starting a new job, according to research.   Almost eight in 10 (78%) of the 1,400 employees surveyed  by Office Angels recruitment consultancy said that the seven-month mark  More...
28 February 2007 11:01

The chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) has hit out at the "appalling lack" of workforce planning in the NHS . James Johnson, has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning or risk wasting millions of pound  More...
11 January 2007 12:00

Companies that send employees on international assignments are failing to capitalise on this investment and losing talented staff through inadequate arrangements for repatriation and professional development A study  of 3,450 expatriates - by profes  More...
09 November 2006 13:03

Almost half (49%) the nation's workforce would ditch their current job for a shorter commute, according to a survey by employment services provider Manpower. On average, workers spend 360 hours, or 15 days, a year just getting to work and 49% would   More...
08 November 2006 13:02

Staff turnover in the NHS has fallen to its lowest ever recorded level, an annual study has revealed. The figure of 11.8% for 2005/06 is the lowest recorded since NHS Partners ,  an agency working in the health service, started its an  More...
09 October 2006 12:07

Four in 10 City workers are looking for a new job, a survey has revealed. About 43% of the 242 City employees polled by recruitment consultants Robert Half Financial Services said they were actively looking to move firms. Half of the respondents (52  More...
13 September 2006 11:22

Survey shows the search for talented staff will be a major battleground in coming years.  More...
24 February 2006 10:46

All change at top of Healthcare People Management Association.  More...
20 February 2006 08:46

Investors in People is urging employers to pay more attention to staff needs as 'job hopping' gathers momentum.  More...
28 October 2005 08:54

Despite apparent musical differences, UK retail staff are the most likely to staywith their current employer.  More...
23 September 2005 09:00

HR ignores benefits of parental leave.  More...
12 September 2005 09:00

UK businesses are losing talented younger staff as uninspired 'stags' block their career paths.  More...
09 August 2005 10:27

The latest Deloitte and REC jobs report shows the UK is still fighting fit.  More...
05 August 2005 09:15

Large numbers of personal assistants (PAs) are considering working abroad, according to research.  More...
29 June 2005 11:45

Employers are finding vacancies harder to fill than ever. Government figures show there were 635,900 unfilled vacancies in the quarter to April 2005, up 7,500 (1.2%) on the same period last year.  More...
15 June 2005 12:00