“It’s a rubbish issue this week,” the Big Issue seller told me as I bought a copy at lunchtime. He wasn’t wrong, although as I opened the magazine I realised he was referring to the subject matter rather than to the quality of the writing.
You probably aren’t aware, but this week is national farmhouse breakfast week – the 11th annual celebration, if it had passed you by before.
Two-thirds of employees don’t trust or have confidence in their senior managers. That’s the finding of the latest quarterly survey produced by the UK’s HR institute, which says this should “ring alarm bells” for employers.
So the UK has finally stumbled out of recession. Cue mass pontificating (including from us) about what this means for businesses, politicians and your average Joe.
You may have seen this morning the proposals set out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission suggesting scrapping the default retirement age.
Last week I suggested sparing a thought for British Airways buyers, who were watching their cabin crew colleagues wilfully waste wine and washbags in protest at not being allowed to go on strike. This on top of being asked to work for nothing to save the company £140 million. Now staff relations have taken an odder turn.
The recession is a lot like love – and not just because you seem to wind up broke at the end of it.
The sale of Cadbury to the Yanks is big news over here in the UK. It has sparked a wave of fevered patriotism and nostalgia over an iconic British brand.
A story today based on the latest quarterly report from the Ernst & Young Item Club economic forecasting group, concludes the UK economy faces 10 years of “painful readjustment”.
An almost universal feature of business today is the ever decreasing travel budget. No longer can the busy executive count on business class travel to ease the pain of being away from home.
