Finally a solution to a problem we all lie awake at night pondering on. You know the feeling when whilst eating an ice-cream you can’t quite get your wrist to turn the whole way round allowing you to catch those irritating drops of sticky dairy? Well fear not. At long last a US firm have [...]
New research has made a discovery that will have women the world over feeling slightly smug, and rightly so. According to a study carried out by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, bigger heads do not equal bigger brains. For decades men have gloated over their evolutionarily larger bodies and believed that they are more [...]
We’ve all been there and we all know what it feels like to suffer from a broken heart. You can’t eat, you can’t sleep and inevitably everything you see and do seems remind of your loss. However, a Japanese company is now taking measures to support its staff should their hearts get broken by [...]
We all remember the days when we would see people on their way to work, suited and booted, shoes polished, tie straightened. But times are changing and the new ‘smart casual’ policy is slowly creeping into our daily working lives. Gone are the high-powered daily suits and shoulder pads and here are the ‘smart [...]
Its no longer just ‘Junk Food’ affecting our work- enter ‘Junk Sleep’. For a long time now those of us in work have been advised to be healthy and eat well. It is recommended we do regular exercise and avoid junk food, some of which we do and some we’re just too busy for! [...]
Nine to five is out of date, don’t you know. ROWE – Results Only Work Environment – is quickly catching on in the USA. Instead of working your fixed hours at your desk, you can choose when and where you write those reports, meaning you can fit gym sessions and the school runs in around [...]
You may not think that it’s any of your boss’s business how often you go to the gym, but the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has said that there can be many benefits for employers who promote exercise to their employees. As well as being beneficial for staff’s health by improving their [...]
We may think it’s scandalous that some Britons are denied jobs on the basis of their race, gender, religion or age, but just be glad you don’t live in Spain. Medical experts are trying to reduce the number of reasons why candidates can be declined from jobs with the Civil Guard. Current ones include having [...]
Research commissioned by the Spelling Society has revealed that British adults aren’t too good at spelling. 54% spelt “embarrassed” incorrectly, 46% couldn’t spell “liaison” and 43% had trouble spelling “millennium”. 1000 people were asked to spell 10 words, and every word was misspelled by someone, with the younger generation less confident than their older peers. [...]
PR Week carried a feature last month on the dangers to employers of letting clients ‘harass’ their staff (it all seemed to be about male to female harassment, inferring that it didn’t happen the other way around, or are we just being naive?). As anyone who has read any form of legal media will be well aware, [...]
