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If you are wondering why I haven’t said anything about the spending cuts, it’s because I am on holiday enjoying lots of sunshine and laziness. Check out Chris Dillow and Freemania for comments on the public spending announcements. I’m...
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28 May 2010 3:23 PM
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Pretend-localism to continue under the new government
Just seen the new coalition’s programme for government. It reminds me of an attempt to consolidate all the outputs from a management away day. You know the sort of thing I mean; all the groups scawl overlapping or contradictory ideas on a set of...
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20 May 2010 3:02 PM
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Blog plug – The Freethinking Economist
One of my more tiresome three-pint rant subjects is about the tunnel vision of HR professionals – and of managers generally. Most are able to pontificate at length about the minutiae of their chosen fields but many display a woeful lack of any …...
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20 May 2010 12:05 PM
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Government takes on those public sector fat-cats
Have you noticed how a different set of rules seem to apply to public sector and private sector pay? In the private sector, if you cap the pay and bonuses of investment bankers and plc directors it will lead to … Continue reading → Read More...
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18 May 2010 7:34 AM
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George Osborne before he was famous
The FT’s Gideon Rachman recalls interviewing a young George Osborne for a job with the Economist at the fag-end of the last century. I don’t know what the Economist’s HR department would think about Gideon revealing details of supposedly...
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17 May 2010 5:37 PM
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So how will this cap on immigration work?
LONDON, 14 MAY 2012 – Global investment bank MorganGoldensacks yesterday threatened to move its entire operation out of the United Kingdom after it was refused permission to relocate staff from New York, Singapore and Hong Kong to its London office...
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14 May 2010 9:46 AM
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Civil Service cuts just got even more expensive
Remember those cuts to the Civil Service redundancy terms that I wrote about last August? Well the high court has just ruled them to be unlawful. That has seriously buggered things up. It was expensive enough to make Civil Servants redundant … Continue...
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10 May 2010 5:34 PM
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UK deadlock a sideshow – the real news was made in Brussels
Well, it seems the sky hasn’t fallen in after all. Despite all the hysterical predictions over the weekend that, due to our failure to elect a majority government, we would get our arses spanked as soon as the markets opened, the FTSE and the …...
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10 May 2010 11:50 AM
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Will our economy hang with our parliament?
I try to avoid writing those shrill Oh-Shit-We’re-Buggered pieces of the sort you see in the Daily Mail but I must admit, I woke up this morning and thought ‘Oh shit, we’re buggered!’ After a couple of strong coffees I realised...
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7 May 2010 2:56 PM
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After a Tory victory? Business as usual for HR
A couple of weeks ago HR Magazine reported that the Tories were the most popular party among HR directors. This is not really surprising. The clue is in the second word. HR directors are, after all, directors and directors tend to be … Continue reading ...
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