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Wages grew faster than the rate of inflation at the end of 2016, official figures show. In the three months to December, wages grew 2.6% on an annualised basis in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). However, that was slower than the previous period, leading analysts to suggest households could face… Read article/comments
UK unemployment fell by 52,000 to 1.6 million in the three months to November – the lowest level for more than a decade – official figures showed. The jobless rate was steady at an 11-year low of 4.8%, the Office for National Statistics said. The employment rate was steady at a record 74.5%, while wage… Read article/comments
A report today in Recruiter reports that whether the UK remains as part of the single European market in the wake of the vote to leave the EU will have considerable impact on the state of mergers & acquisitions in the recruitment industry, a leading M&A player has predicted. For the next three months, the… Read article/comments
Grafton Haymes, sponsors of The Wimbledon Club, wish the best of luck to both James Willstrop and Omar Abdel Meguid in the final of the The Wimbledon Club Squash Squared Open 2016. It has been the club’s first PSA World Tour Event and a great success, with sell out crowds every evening. It will be… Read article/comments
Some years ago I attended an Association of Coaching conference and I was in one of the seminars, led by a person whose company was named… I can’t remember, but it was something like a classic duff 80s action movie, Red Dawn, or something equally as ghastly! Anyway, the speaker was holding forth on how… Read article/comments
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