Ruts are amazingly easy to fall into in business. When you are busy there isn’t time to look at them; when you are less busy, all your focus is on getting orders. And rightly so.
There is no denying that flexible working has grown enormously over the last few years. It used to be viewed as a slight oddity for people to be working out of coffee shops or from home but now it is very much the norm in modern society.
The case for empowering employees to choose how to carry out, and even design, their own work, is backed by the success of numerous firms – including the Ritz Carlton and Virgin Airlines.
The less-than-spectacular recent results of UK bastions such as Next and M&S highlights the fact that large-scale retailers cannot rest on their laurels. We take a look at how boutique retailers are riding a new wave as consumer preferences evolve and online retail develops further.
When it comes to splitting off a section of the company to start a separate business, whether you sink or swim could depend on how many good people you bring with you, according to new research by Rotman School of Management.
Iain Duncan Smith should be awarded a "common sense" gong for his completely logical, no-nonsense approach to getting good careers education to young people still in school before it's too late.
The largest proposed change to sponsored employees in over five years is due to be announced in January by the Migration Advisory Committee, which will limit the number of non-EU workers in the UK. This is set to leave many firms, already facing a skills crisis, struggling to afford the rise in labour.
Seminal offerings are often forgotten years later or lose their cachet. After all, who remembers Archie, the first Internet search engine developed in 1990" And would you tell anyone to “Yahoo! it”?
The pace of business is getting faster, making it tough to stay on top of ever increasing workloads. And with the pressure of getting things done representing a clear and present danger to work/life balance, Bruce Kornfeld, CEO of Gyst, looks to a future where technology helps, rather than hinders those aiming to strike the right balance.
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