Monthly Archives: March 2017

The benefits of effective office design

An office can become much more than a place to work. The right office design can be truly transformative across a range of areas within a business, changing not only how you present yourself but also how you work while boosting the wellbeing of your employees. Office designers, Penketh Group, explain how to achieve a
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The two essentials for crowdsourcing success revealed

Companies must give both proactive and reactive attention to contributors to make crowdsourcing successful, new research from ESMT Berlin reveals, despite the advice being against natural inclinations. Professor Linus Dahlander studied the crowdsourcing efforts of over 20,000 companies. He reveals that whether organisations succeed or fail in crowdsourcing can be explained by two actions they
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Characterful New Forest B&B for sale

Location Cadnam, New Forest, Hampshire Asking price £799,000 Sales revenue £81,802 Cash flow Available on request Property Freehold, furniture and fixtures included Who’s it good for? In order to run a B&B successfully, you have to be a ‘people’s person’. Flexibility also goes a long way as you may need to work unsociable hours depending
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Millennials are struggling to get by on current wages

Millennials are struggling with tough working conditions, research by Bauer Media reveals, 41 per cent say they struggle to get by on their current wage (Bauer Media Millennials Trends 2016). To counterbalance this, a quarter (25 per cent) say they do things to make money outside of their contracted work. Millennials find work to be
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Time to chill – how to relax when travelling for business

With stress accounting for 37 per cent of all work related ill health cases and 45 per cent of all working days lost due to ill health in 2015/16, it’s never been more important for workers to pay attention to their mental health and relax. Striking the balance between work and play can be a difficult task
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UK’s top 25 public sector employers – as rated by their staff

Oxfam is the best not-for-profit, public sector employer in the UK, according to data released by Indeed. The charity came top of a ranking of the UK’s best public sector and not-for-profit employers that was compiled from tens of thousands of employee reviews. While the research compared branches of central and local government as well
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