More gems of news about the government have come our way this week. Apparently, Whitehall mandarins are now being offered classes on how to improve their dress sense and personal grooming – all at the bargain price of £970 – and funded by taxpayers, which is always nice to hear. Amongst other things, the civil [...]
A few weeks ago we heard that experts were working on creating a robot that can learn, think and talk. The ‘iCub’ can crawl, see and hear and the next step is to teach it English. Now we’re reading about a new restaurant in Germany that has replaced its waiters with technology. Diners use touch-screen [...]
Meeting too early in the morning? Not awake yet? Meeting too late in the afternoon when you’re ready to go home? If you want to make the biggest impact start your meeting at 10am, but deliver your main message at 11am. According to Prof Lawrence Smith, of Leeds University’s institute of Psychological Science we are [...]
While scanning the web, we recently came across 10 top tips to help if the market slows down. Here they are, complete with a few Hanson amendments: 1. Clients that made you rich in good times can make you poor in a recession. 2. You may need to switch from a "delivery" business model to [...]
Here’s a blog entry by Jenna from the Hanson team… It was reassuring knowing that no matter where you were in the term, how well or badly things were going, vacation was just around the corner. If you could just keep going until the next one, you’d be rewarded with days (weeks even) of lie-ins, [...]
Good news for women (and men) – as of 6th April, workers are protected against sexual harassment from customers, suppliers and others they encounter in the workplace. New rules mean that you can seek damages if your employer fails to take reasonable steps to protect you from harassment by a third party. Good to see [...]
Yes you heard correctly, rock n roll is the latest trend in team building to rock the corporate world (excuse the pun). You and your fellow employees are given around half an hour to turn yourselves into a rock band, learn how to play the instruments and generally work together in order to perform a [...]
The Times recently printed a piece on the “monstrous truth about sickness at work”. This truth was that we are apparently too dependent on our employers, we have shifted the responsibility of providing for our families from ourselves to a third party and that employment in large organisations has “sapped our drive and turned us [...]
Anyone who was busy with other stuff this week (like doing PR or marcomms work, for example) may have missed a new report on the future of work from the Chartered Management Institute. According to the report, which included the views of over 1000 senior executives, by 2018 we can expect virtual teams, multi-employment (job-hopping [...]
Domestic security agency Shin Bet in Israel has been jumping on the internet blog band wagon by allowing its staff to create their own diarised versions of their day to day working life. Four employees have already begun their own blog in an attempt to win over hi-tech recruits. In this particular circumstance the ‘bloggers’ [...]
