Eighty-four per cent of businesses have suffered from some form of supplier failure in the past two to three years, commissioned research conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tungsten Network reveals. Despite today’s data-saturated world, the March 2017 study, Supplier Networks Enable Innovative And Streamlined Supply Chains, highlights how supply chains are not yet
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A worker’s guide to office etiquette
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Remembering to make your colleagues a drink, keeping the noise down in the office and being punctual are some of the most important pieces of office etiquette all staff need to know. The office experts at Londonoffices.com have compiled a selection of the key workplace protocol that all employees should understand if they don’t want
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Late payment epidemic set to cripple exports for British SMEs
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Small and medium-sized UK businesses are being severely impacted by chronic reductions in working capital, according to new research of over 1,000 SMEs commissioned by Crossflow Payments. For many SMEs, uncertainty around when they will get paid is all too common. More than a third of UK SMEs (38 per cent) admit to having no set
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UK workers reveal the worst excuses they’ve given for not turning up to work
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More than half (52.5 per cent) of UK employees feel guilty about taking sick days, the majority (50.6 per cent) state that this is because they are leaving their team in the lurch. This is according to the latest data from CV-Library, which finds that women feel most guilty about sick leave (60.5 per cent). The survey received 1,300
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UK business output is now at the point of contraction
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UK business output is now at the point of contraction, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP. The new report reveals BDO’s Output Index – which indicates how businesses expect their order books to develop over the next three months – has fallen to 94.9 in June from
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Less than half of global executives believe GDPR compliance is relevant
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Many global business decision makers are unaware of the implications of the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as other compliance regulations like PCI-DSS and ISO27001/2, with one in five admitting they do not know which regulations their organisation is subject to. This is according to the 2017 Risk:Value report, commissioned by NTT
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No eggs-cuses – foods you shouldn’t eat in the office
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Fish, fast food and re-heated leftovers are some of the foods that office employees are enjoying on their lunch breaks – at the expense of their co-workers. Experts at Londonoffices.com have compiled a selection of the lunches that staff members love to eat at their desk or in the cafeteria, that annoy their colleagues. The
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Application nightmare: Should you tailor your cover letter for every job?
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New research from CV-Library finds that two thirds (66.9 per cent) of candidates between the ages of 18 and 24 find it frustrating that they have to tailor their cover letter for every job that they apply for, with 41.4 per cent believing that cover letters are unnecessary. The research, which surveyed 1,200 workers about their attitudes
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Why the UK must not fail the next generation of entrepreneurs
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The UK could be at risk of missing out on vital growth, to be delivered by the next generation of entrepreneurs unless action is taken, warns Barclays as new research is published. Barclays Business Banking finds two fifths (42 per cent) of UK school children aged 8-16 want to launch their own business when they grow up
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CEOs paid up to £27,500 a year to browse social media at work
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Chief executives are spending a third (30 per cent) of their work time – worth £27,500 – scrolling through social media and their personal emails on their smartphones, according to a new study. Smartphones are the fastest-selling gadget in history with around two billion people using them across the world each day. Smartphone addiction is a popular topic
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