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An expert has poured cold water on findings that as many as nine out of 10 call centres in the UK now offer stress counselling to reduce staff turnover levels.Nearly …
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Working for a dotcom business does not guarantee greater financial rewards than a job in the old economy.E-businesses offer similar salaries to other companies and the number with share plans …
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The number of British employees who work from home has jumped by a quarter in a year and only suspicious managers are holding back more from doing so.Using data from …
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An analysis of the bonus schemes offered by the UK’s top 350 companies has revealed the most popular maximum bonus award for executive directors is 50 per cent of salary. …
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BT and Andersen Consulting got the green light for their HR outsourcing joint venture, e-peopleserve, last week.The European competition authorities approved their plans to set up the company, which will …
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Car maker Peugeot has averted an all-out strike by staff at its Ryton plant in Coventry, which would halt production of the successful 206, by agreeing to a further three …
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Lottery operator Camelot has found that a flexible approach to working can control labour costs and bring focus to core business activities.Its HR team claims using part-time and agency staff …
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Inflation is spurring higher pay deals this summer with three-quarters of them being struck at 3 per cent or above and 4 per cent set to become the norm by …
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The previous Flexible Working column (Personnel Today, 20 June) discussed running a successful pilot scheme of a flexible working policy by sampling a cross-section of the organisation. You now have …
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Local government is ideally positioned to exploit computer-based training, but is failing to take it forward, according to an e-learning expert.Donald Clark, chief executive of on-line learning company Epic, whose …
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One of Britain’s top high-tech companies is setting up a degree course to grow its own talent after struggling to recruit the people it needs. Microchip design group ARM Holdings …
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• Mike Higgins has been appointed HR director of Wincanton Logistics. An economics graduate from the University of Manchester, Higgins has held positions in all aspects of HR management at …
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1992-1997 Recruitment & training manager for Next 1997-2000 Group personnel manager for FX Corporation May 2000- Head of human resources for Crown Business Communications
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• A project to train former drug addicts to run their own web site design company has been set up in Kingston upon Thames. The scheme is one of five …
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Research by employment analysis firm IRS found that 93 out of 137 organisations use this method to communicate the policy to staff. Some staff used more than one method.The first …