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Eco-star line-up at Green Business Awards

Eurostar scooped the coveted award for Best Large Company at the Green Business Awards while HJ Berry & Sons picked up the prize for best SME.

Working mums soldier on even when sick

Busy working mothers are ignoring flu symptoms to continue working.

Absence rates fall with attempts to improve morale

Absence is more likely to be decreased through morale and engagement programmes than through absence management systems.

Stop workplace tea-makers wasting water

British employees consume 165 million cups of tea at work every day but boil enough water to make 330 million cups.

Helpline gets more calls from stressed retail staff

In the past three months 25% more retail staff have called The Retail Trusts helpline about stress, depression and financial crises.

Corporate world shows less interest in green issues

This month HR magazines online poll found 75% of readers do not plan to recruit green collar workers to concentrate on environmental policy over the next year and Im not surprised.

Employers to make more redundant than planned

More than a quarter of employers (26%) plan to make redundancies in the next year in addition to those already planned.

It pays to send Christmas cards

Customers who receive Christmas cards from companies are more loyal and more likely to give them business in the new year, according to research.

Commuting time falls as flexible working increases

The number of people commuting to work for more than an hour plummeted by 206,000 in 2007 - highlighting an increase in flexible working.

Takeaways benefit from increase in late working

As the economic downturn worsens, employees working late are ordering takeaways to their offices later than ever before.

Books: Must read

Jane Vivier senior reward manager, UK Border Agency, chooses three texts that impress.

The ape in the corner office

Jeremy Hay-Campbell, associate director of 3Monkeys Communications, appropriately steers a path through a book that covers the jungles of the work and animal kingdom, and finds thought-provoking gems.

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