With current political noise it was easy to miss that the national minimum wage celebrated its 20th birthday last week. Let’s be frank though – the celebrations were hardly raucous! Despite a rise of over 4% (depending upon the workers age) the media latched onto the increased cost of living and as such any…
Social media continues to evolve and the world has become increasingly savvy about how to use privacy settings and what can and can’t be communicated on their social media accounts. There is a time and a place to complain about your boss or flaunt those photos of you and your friends stood at the bar…
It’s hard to believe, but it will be ten years this year since the ratings site Glassdoor was launched. The website allowing anonymous users to go online and write anything they like about your organisation seemed to be a relatively recent phenomenon to me – but clearly not. I guess the reason I and many clients are…
In recent months internships have been under the spotlight like never before. A simple scheme designed to give young go-getters some vital work experience in the industry of their choosing and in return provide organisations with a boost to productivity and a chance to nurture future talent is being challenged and it needs to ensure its…
Between now and Christmas I expect the demand for temporary staff to increase significantly in the workplace. Business demands, seasonal fluctuations and in some cases the arrival of swathes of University students looking for ways to earn extra cash adds fuel to the fire. In addition, many organisations do not want to make long term…
‘Generation snowflake’ is to my mind a hugely offensive and widely inaccurate term that has been adopted to describe the latest generation of young people now active in the job market. Now – I really do not like labels and to my mind this new generation of workers is as diverse as any that…