other content

Employees complain their skills are not being used in rules and procedure-based cultures

Half of UK pension scheme trustees do not know how the recession is impacting their funding position, although 60% get regular updates from their actuarial organisation.

National Grid staff performance measured on their effectiveness in cutting carbon emissions

National Grid will now measure staff performance on their carbon emissions as well as more traditional factors like customer service and reliability.

Red Letter Days to reduce its events' carbon footprints and invest in green projects

Red Letter Days plans to offset the carbon emissions from its experience days from 1 April.

Bad news from Office for National Statistics: UK unemployment exceeds two million

It is official: unemployment in the UK has broken the two million mark, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Employees leave jobs where managers don't trust them to get on with it

Nearly half (42%) of employees who quit their jobs do so because they disagree with management styles they see as unhelpful.

Most HR directors not involved in making HR outsourcing decisions

Only two out of 10 HR professionals think the HR director is the key decision maker in HR outsourcing decisions with over a third believing the responsibility lies with other senior management,...

Adnams upgrades to a managed payroll service and online time and attendance system

Brewer, retailer and hotel chain Adnams has implemented a managed payroll service and an online time and attendance system.

UK private companies have fewer women in senior roles than their Asian counterparts

The UK is lagging behind Asia when it comes to the number of women in senior management in privately-held businesses, according to Grant Thornton.

British Chambers of Commerce forecasts 10% of workforce will be jobless by 2010

A tenth of the workforce will be unemployed by the second half of 2010, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

7,000 die each year from work-related cancer

Seven thousand people die in the UK every year from work-related cancer compared with 3000 who die in road accidents or 240 who lose their lives in work-related accidents, The Society of Occupational...

Nurses aspire to work overseas

Almost three quarters (72%) of nurses would prepared to move overseas for work.

Employer policies hold back environmentally aware employees

More than nine out of ten employees (92%) think it is important for UK companies to be environmentally responsible but only 54% think their organisation does enough to help the environment.