Older workers (55s+) in the UK are bracing themselves to continue working until they are 70 years old, according to new research by the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development. In a survey of more than 1,600 UK employees, more than a third (37 per cent) of all workers believe they will have
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Ninety per cent of stay-at-home staff admit they shirk work
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A new survey has revealed that stay-at-home Brits skive off for nearly five hours each week on average. Nine in ten confess they are regularly distracted by food, FIFA and Facebook, while working remotely. Astonishingly, one in three Brits are so slack they don’t even bother getting out of their PJs all day and just
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Rise in UK employers using wellbeing strategies to improve engagement
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Employers in the UK are rolling out workplace wellbeing strategies at an unprecedented rate, according to a new research report, ‘Employee Wellbeing Research 2017: The evolution of workplace wellbeing in the UK’ from Reward and Employee Benefits Association (REBA) in association with Punter Southall Health and Protection. Nearly half (45 per cent) of UK companies have a clearly-defined
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Clean business data decays over 13 times per minute
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Business data decays at the rate of over 13 times per minute, according to analysis released today by SalesJoe, a new lead management tool powered by Creditsafe. SalesJoe identifies the figure after analysing 5 million UK businesses and the quantity of changes to company names, addresses, directors and credit risk information across all major business sectors
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More than half of Brits have a workplace romance
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More than half of British workers admit to having a relationship with a colleague and nearly 70 per cent confess the office romance had a negative impact on their career, according to a new research study commissioned by employment law experts Slater and Gordon. A third of these relationships were found to have ended on a bad
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Sedentary society: UK workers spend nine hours a day sitting down
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Brits who sit for some or most of their working day are piling up an average daily sit-time of nine hours, according to new research into people’s sedentary habits from AXA PPP healthcare. The poll of 2000 workers finds that, while nearly half (46 per cent) sit at work for 4 to 6 hours per
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£47,000 shortfall in employer pension contributions for women
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There is a ‘gap’ between the amount that men and women receive in employer pension contributions, which if left unaddressed could result in a shortfall of £47,000 by the end of a woman’s working life, according to the inaugural Zurich Workplace Savings Barometer. Last year, on average, men under the age of 35 received £217
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Sensation seekers make better CEOs, research finds
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Sensation seekers embrace innovation and make better CEOs, says Jingjing Zhang, assistant professor of accounting at Desautels School of Management, McGill University. CEOs who search for exciting yet risky experiences – such as flying small aircraft – embrace diverse and high-impact innovation projects in business. The researchers examines the performances of 88 CEOs who were
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Two thirds of SME businesses not ready for tax digitalisation
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A recent survey by the UK200Group shows that 65 per cent of its members’ SME business clients do not currently use software to manage their accounts. They will be forced to adapt significantly in order to use software to comply with HMRC’s ‘Making Tax Digital’ project, which aims to see businesses reporting tax digitally by 2018. The
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Two thirds of SME businesses not ready for tax digitalisation
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A recent survey by the UK200Group shows that 65 per cent of its members’ SME business clients do not currently use software to manage their accounts. They will be forced to adapt significantly in order to use software to comply with HMRC’s ‘Making Tax Digital’ project, which aims to see businesses reporting tax digitally by 2018. The
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