Endangered Technology For 2010 Retailer compiles list of gadgets to fall out of favour A list of “endangered technologies” that will be lucky to survive the year has been compiled by Pixmania, Europe’s largest electronics retailer. Certain new technologies, like Blu-ray and the i-phone, are rendering old alternatives like DVD players and Sat Nav obsolete, […]
Stars including Kate Moss and Dita Von Teese have donated outfits for Topshop’s charity initiative, Dress Me Up. Office partygoers will be able to hire the dresses for up to four days from December 7-23. In January the dresses will be auctioned off with profits going to Age UK. The fashion retailer is also offering […]
Esselte last week announced it had reached an agreement to buy Isaberg Rapid, the stapling company. Isaberg Rapid, based in Sweden, develops, manufactures and markets staplers, pliers, stapling tools, glue guns and electric insert staplers for leading manufacturers of copying machines and printers. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the first quarter of […]
The US Government hopes to raise $500,000 as it auctions the personal effects of Bernard Madoff, the man whose Ponzi scheme cost investors tens of billions of dollars. About 200 items will go on the block in the auction held tomorrow in New York. Punters can bid for, among other delights, a New York Mets […]
Almost 50 percent of UK workers and managers do not have the appropriate IT equipment to do their job, according to a poll commissioned by Plantronics, the lightweight communications headset products company. Although 64 percent of those polled use technology such as conference call facilities, 68 percent of managers don’t have access to the right […]
Sir Ian McKellen, Sir David Jason and Dame Vera Lynn are amongst a number of celebrities who have designed envelopes to raise money for the National Literacy Trust. The annual Pitney Bowes Pushing the Envelope campaign invites contributors to create designs on the theme of ‘words that mean most to you’. Lynn’s envelope, for example, […]
A group led by the Forum of Private Business (FPB) has urged employers not to cancel Christmas office parties this festive season for fear it could devastate small firms like florists, entertainers and catering companies who rely on the Christmas party market. The market is worth around £1bn, but recent figures suggest one in five […]
Employers are responsible for the behaviour of their staff – even at the Christmas party. And firms could face expensive compensation claims if employees’ behaviour gets out of hand. The warning comes from James Wilders, an employment law partner at national law firm Dickinson Dees. “Employers often find themselves experiencing a costly hangover when employees’ […]
Always keen to see office furniture in new contexts, we note that a filing cabinet features as an important prop in the play, Mrs. Klein, showing at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, North London. The play studies the troubled relationship between controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and her daughter Melitta. Klein rose to prominence in the […]
Elected idiot for Spelthorne in Surrey, David Wilshire (Conservative), has raised eyebrows by comparing the treatment of MPs embroiled in the expenses scandal with that of Jews in Hitler’s Third Reich. “The witchhunt against MPs will undermine democracy. It will weaken Parliament,” he wrote in a letter to constituents, reportedly written on Commons note paper […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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