Sixty-six per cent of businesses are seeking new hires, according to the Enterprise Index survey, a quarterly barometer which tests the views of over 200 business leaders and entrepreneurs. However, only 38 per cent believe that the workforce is sufficiently trained or educated to help them achieve their growth plans. ‘Having the right people available
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Slow feedback is biggest frustration for jobseeker’s in the UK
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UK businesses are missing out on top talent because they are alienating candidates with poor communication with feedback and long hiring practices, new research from Robert Half UK reveals. A poll of 1,000 jobseekers found that the biggest frustration with job applications is slow feedback from prospective employers about their progress through the application process.
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Lack of time is the single biggest barrier to innovation
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Innovation – or doing things differently to achieve your mission – is a critical tool in delivering efficiencies and helping organisations stay ahead of their competition. Yet, while 76 per cent of employees agree that innovation is important to their organisational strategy, less than half (40 per cent) of those felt their organisation was doing
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Companies to spend 172 hours a month simply on GDPR data searches
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A significant number of EU businesses are sleepwalking towards massive penalties due to a lack of awareness of the scale of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data collection challenge. This is a central finding of a major report released today by Senzing. The research – Finding The Missing Link in GDPR Compliance – is
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Work over wellbeing: UK professionals struggle to balance work and fitness
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The benefits of regular exercise are indisputable, yet a third (31.6 per cent) of UK professionals admit that they only exercise once or twice a week. What’s more, a worrying one in four (24 per cent) confessed that they don’t exercise at all! That’s according to the latest study from CV-Library. The survey of 1,200
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Board members at odds with management on level of GDPR compliance
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New research by data security company Clearswift has shown that board members are more confident than management about their organisation’s ability to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in time for the May 25th deadline. The research, which surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany and
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Half of businesses admit to paying suppliers late
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Slow internal processes and a lack of automation are among the biggest challenges for businesses when it comes to late payments to suppliers, according to new research by Tungsten Network and the Institute of Finance and Management (IOFM). The Friction Index research found that almost half (47 per cent) of businesses admit that at least
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Two-thirds of start-ups aren’t data compliant ahead of GDPR
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With the intention of bringing awareness about GDPR to startups, email service provider Mailjet commissioned an international survey (launched on Product Hunt), asking startups to rate where their company stands in terms of key requirements of the new regulation which will come into effect May 25th, 2018. Of over 4,000 startups who completed the quiz,
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Security risk: Two thirds of SMEs hoard old paperwork and documents
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Sixty-six per cent of UK businesses could be putting themselves at risk of document loss due to the mismanagement of vital business paperwork, with many lacking any document management strategy and leaving themselves open to serious threats including GDPR fines, research has shown. In the survey commissioned by Cleardata, 44 per cent of businesses admit
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Bad managers are driving talented staff to quit their jobs
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Poor management is endemic in the British workplace, with 80 per cent of employees having experienced what they consider poor management, or a poor manager, at least once during their career, according to new research by YouGov on behalf of leading HR and payroll solutions provider MHR. The survey of 2,006 British employees also found
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