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Many of us oldies who recall the 1980s might have varied sentiments regarding that decade, and many things are memorable about it. There was a lot of excellent contemporary music from those times. I recall a certain lady PM, of course. But there were some for whom it was not such a happy decade, due [...]

At the current time the global economy is recovering from the most severe economic downturn for eighty years. The following upturn has been exceedingly shallow, and we are seeing increasing indicators that we could unfortunately be approaching a ‘double dip’ recession – an additional slump. Those people who became unemployed over the past year and [...]

In the passage of world history, there have been periods when nations become obsessed about a particular commodity which seems an opportunity to make themselves rich. Regardless of what it is, its price skyrockets far above its real value, before crashing back making a lot of investors penniless. Look for instance at Tulip Mania in [...]

Whatever type of work you do, it’s a good idea to take a holiday and escape from work worries. It’s a very popular choice to go abroad for a week or two; others may prefer a holiday in Britain, or merely take time out at home to catch up with their hobbies. If you work [...]

There was a time when people decided on a given walk of life in their youth, undertook the necessary tuition for relevant exams, and then remained in that occupation for the next 40 or so years. Conditions have changed over time, with a lot more people changing their career path in mid-life. Clearly the the [...]

The 1800’s modified education and the workplace on a huge scale. Compulsory education meant more children had to be taught. There was no palpable way to rapidly augment teaching staff, so children were split into classes and classes were located in schools. I like to think that state education was entirely an altruistic change in [...]

When I finished at a major project in Newcastle in 2002, I was once again out of work and searching for a way to Work From Home as I was getting cheesed off with finding myself out of work through no fault of my own, because of decisions taken through corporate or national politics, had [...]

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, it was historically termed a “giant leap” for mankind, and that is undoubtedly correct. And yet the last 100 years saw a quite different giant step for the human race. This was the outstanding increase in human communications technology. From relying on horse-drawn transport, and usually [...]

Well the 2010 budget is really what we all expected, and while it is going to be harsh all round, we can’t deny, that over the piece, public spending has mushroomed during Labour’s residence in Government. So if the Councils want to keep jobs but still need to decrease spending, where are the reductions going [...]

Some years ago, I was unemployed and trying to decide what to do with myself when I saw an advert and hatched a cunning scheme. Ideally I wanted to get into Online Jobs as I had had my own Internet Business with which I’d run a record shop on eBay, but this hadn’t gone well [...]

There was an interesting story on the BBC news the other day when Luca di Montezemolo, the chairman of Ferrari and apparently the 3rd most famous man in Italy after the Pope and Silvio Berlusconi, called in and was interviewed saying that he didn’t predict a period of European austerity affecting sales of the company’s [...]

It is estimated in the UK, that 12% of the labour force and amazingly 41% of the businesses are set in homes around the country. This trend is set to continue as businesses look for more and more ways to contend against cheaper regions in the world. There is no doubt that the development of [...]

In 1995 a new company was established under the name of AuctionWeb. In January 1997 it hosted two million online auctions and by the closing stages of that year the company modified its name to EBay. A new Internet Business was underway, enabling the general public to sell used objects on the World Wide Web. [...]

Founded in the mid nineties, both Google and Yahoo have become famous companies in their own right over the past 15 years. Spawned from research projects at Stanford University in California, they truly exemplify the ability of these “Dot Com” businesses to exit the lab and become significant corporations in the world of commerce. Even [...]

Virtual learning seems to infer that some space time dimension segregates student and teacher, in some revolutionary teaching scenario. Well the future has come to embody reality for lots of people, as the up to the minute internet technologies have evolved remote learning a hundred fold over the past 5 years. A teacher and a [...]

Telecommuting or e-commuting is an agreement where the company grants some leeway on the locality where the employee works from. Traditionally this has mostly concerned employees who Work From Home either full time or part time. In 2008 it was believed that 50 million US workers may well work from home, in spite of this [...]

The new government faces, as we know all too well, the worst economic situation inherited from its predecessor of any since the end of WWII. Gordon Brown’s parting gift is his economic miracle, where he boasted to us that he had done away with boom and bust, the ‘business cycle’ and laid the base for [...]

The introduction of The Flexible Working (Procedural Requirements) Regulations in 2002 saw the formalisation of an increasing trend away from the usual working hours of 9 to 5. The need for a Work-Life balance had become a greater priority for a significant percentage of the United Kingdom’s workforce. For some the objective was to [...]

As often happens with a lot of new concepts in the human resources function the proving ground tends to be the vast global conglomerates that are happy to fund external research programmes or to test theories within their own workforces if the extent of the sample number of employees being surveyed will be sufficient to [...]