Flexible Working Bombshell!!

UK ministers are considering giving all employees the right to ask for flexible working hours “from the beginning” of a new job as part of plans to encourage a fundamental shift in working habits. Yvette Cooper seems to have dropped any softly-softly approach to reforming the British labour market and dropped a big one on [...]

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Harriet Harman Rocks! (that hurt)

New fathers are to be given the right to take six months off work in the UK after the birth of their baby. Dads are only allowed two weeks off at the moment while mums get a year, with nine months of that paid. But following proposals by Gordon Brown, Business Minister Pat McFadden is [...]

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Telecommuting Saves The World

Been surfing the telecommuting web and came across Telecommuting Could Speed Economic Recovery by undress4success.com where it’s written that Business Week reported that, based on interviews with a number of esteemed economists, the lack of worker mobility was significantly stifling our economic recovery. It turns out that mobility in the workforce is essential to prosperity [...]

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The Rise Of Flexible Work – Not

The Society for Human Resource Management’s 2009 Employee Benefits Survey found that 45 percent of surveyed employers offer telecommuting on an ad hoc basis as a benefit. About 34 percent offer telecommuting on a part-time basis and 19 percent offer telecommuting on a full-time basis as a benefit. Bullshit statistics. The key word in that [...]

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