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Image: Rex Features Olswang, a law firm in London, is keeping bees in its courtyard to inspire its workers to work hard and cooperate with each other ( London offices offered bee hives to ‘boost work morale’ ). Apart from the obvious thought that lawyers might be better off keeping packs of hyenas, Guru is blown away by this innovative idea...

Image: Rex Features Guru is excited. The BPS Occupational Digest blog brings news of a study that will do for HR what a clerk in a Swiss patent office did for physics. The study in question reveals that the key to good management is maintaining a perfect balance of anger and sarcasm ( Creativity dampened by observing anger, but enhanced by sarcasm Read...

Image: Rex Features Back in 2007, Guru successfully prized some jokes out of the HR community ( More jokes for Guru’s HR laughter file ). Well, it’s time to try again. Obviously, this is not an enviable task, especially if the Daily Mail is to be believed ( Death of the office joke: Coalition enacts Harriet’s PC equality law which...

Guru never imagined he'd be saying this, but Nick Clegg is a bona fide genius. Inspired by the Insipid One, Yours Truly has bought in to the intern system in a big way. Previously only used to exploiting young Bulgarians, Yours Truly has been really getting into the spirit of things and now has 4000 interns working for him - doing everything from...

As the dust settles on the Budget announcement, Guru would like to applaud the chancellor's efforts to make life easier for small businesses. However, there is an elephant in the room - and it's in the shape of an unsightly dinosaur. Being small-minded, George Osborne quickly grasped the nettle that is the thorny problem of how to promote growth...

Guru wants to be the first person to congratulate the game that is 'soccerball' to many around the world, but is commonly known as football in the UK, for its services to human resources. Just when the rest of the country seems to be getting to grips with workers rights and employers responsibilities, football continues to wave the flag for...

Just when all was looking rosy in public sector HR, the former shadow chancellor and now shady chancellor Gorgeous George O has thrown a spanner in the works by revealing that the economy is "back on track" . According to Georgy Boy the job losses in the public sector will be reduced by 160,000 to just 330,000, according to a report from his...