Research carried out among 3,000 UK organisations and employees has found 63 per cent of temporary workers actively choose not to take permanent opportunities. This finding was among many which illustrate the current state of temp and freelance working life emerging from Randstad’s recent Navigator research. And just as workers seems to want more temporary [...]
Managers are becoming more favourable to flexible working arrangements and allow staff to carry out personal tasks at work, but expect staff to work outside of office hours in return, a study of 1,000 bosses has revealed. Seven out of 10 managers think the old idea of ‘nine to five’ working is dying out in [...]
Employers may be wasting as much as £270 million a year on failed recruitment, according to a report from Learndirect. The report, published earlier this week, highlights how £1.16 billion is spent by employers each year trying to fill job vacancies but 23% of these posts are recognised as ‘hard to fill’ and often need [...]
The latest job index from recruiter Reed shows the number of online job postings rose by 9% in Q1 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. This follows the news, reported earlier this week by recruiter.co.uk, that the number of new roles in the UK showed a slight month-on-month decline in February. The ‘Reed Job [...]
More than one million UK workers are ‘sleep drunk’ due to a lack of shut eye, new data of nearly 39,000 employed people from Vielife has shown. Although drink driving is socially unacceptable sleep deprivation is so extreme in the UK that one million people are doing the equivalent of getting behind the wheel intoxicated [...]
