OK, we promise to stop going on about this soon before you all get bored, but someone has to save the PR industry, so it might as well be us. This week we’re glad to see one of the sector’s great and good, Lord Bell, rallying to the cause in PR Week. As he puts [...]
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’ remain [...]
Colin Byrne of Weber Shandwick put the cat amongst the pigeons recently by questioning in a PR Week opinion piece why the PR sector still doesn’t reflect the diversity of British society. And if his analysis is right, the industry may be missing out on a significant pool of talent it can ill afford to [...]
Avid readers will remember our rant about how the media seems to be delighting in the prospect of economic downturn, despite the fact that many sectors (including PR) seem to be holding up quite nicely so far. A few weeks ago the FT carried a lovely big headline telling us that no less a luminary [...]
So they told you that you didn’t get that last promotion because of your account management skills/ your specific experience/a stronger candidate, etc, etc. But could there be more to it than that? A study by the University of Florida suggests that tall people are more successful in life than their shorter counterparts with every [...]
Although the PR industry is one of the few areas of the British economy where female directors are actually quite thick on the ground, it seems their counterparts in other industries are dwindling in number. The latest analysis from Cranfield business school of the FTSE 100 has found that the number of women holding executive [...]
Remember watching Tiswas as a kid on Saturday mornings? Then you’re probably part of what has been named the ‘Tiswas generation’, those brought up on the TV show but also standing for ‘Thirty-Somethings Without Any Savings’.
This generation of under-35s apparently need to be earning at least £320,000 a year if they want to [...]
So apparently, worldwide, we send 196 billion emails a day and the average employee spends up to 2 hours a day dealing with emails. Some firms are also introducing ‘no email days’ to encourage employees to phone each other or talk face to face. OK so maybe we get a bit lazy sending emails across [...]
A while back, our old friends at HMRC were cracking down on the self-employed. This time it’s the turn of those on the corporate payroll. Not content with taxing the company car towards the brink of extinction, the government is now considering proposals to tax workers’ parking spaces as a ‘benefit in kind’ (the chair [...]
