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Recent research by GpK NOP Engage is suggesting that a whopping 23% of employees are hoping to move employers within the next year and furthermore that Britain risks a “Brain Drain” as 7.6million workers (c.27%) are now suggesting that they are willing to move overseas in order to improve their job prospects. Sukhi Ghataore, Director… Read article/comments
School closures next week, owing to industrial action, mean all employers need a contingency plan writes Andrew Forrest for HR Magazine. “Thousands of schools, colleges and universities across England and Wales face closure on Thursday 30 June as the National Union of Teachers, Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Universities and Colleges Union threaten… Read article/comments
A recent article (below) from HR Magazine, throws some interesting light on the “wider picture” benefits of undertaking CSR initiatives in the workplace: “The Government has been busy lending its support to initiatives aimed at improving the engagement of businesses with wider society. The Big Society project has now been re-launched with £40 million of… Read article/comments
A report published yesterday (15/6/11) by the CIPD and KPMG has highlighted something which we, as Recruitment Consultants, have observed for a large number of months – that despite a heavy volume of candidates in the market, really good calibre people can still be difficult to find. The report suggests that 73% of organisations have… Read article/comments
UK unemployment has fallen by a further 88,000 in the three months to April, to 2.43 million, according to data released in the past hour by the Office for National Statistics. This is the largest quarterly fall in unemployment since August 2000. The quarterly fall in unemployment occurred mainly among people aged from 16 to… Read article/comments
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