Trust in the chief executives of organisations which have made estate or headcount cuts have plummeted on last year, according the Institute of Leadership & Management’s ‘Index of Leadership Trust’. Conversely, CEOs of organisations that tried alternative methods such as flexible working and budget cuts enjoyed a rise in trust. The Index measures trust […]
Tea-making is a major source of workplace friction and is the biggest cause of office arguments, according to a OnePoll survey of 3,000 office workers. The poll also revealed that there are an average of two spats a day per office and that women are more likely to get into arguments at work than […]
A new survey commissioned to mark the release of the DVD version of of Terry Pratchett’s novel Going Postal has revealed that one in 20 workers have been reprimanded or worse for sending an inappropriate email at work. Thirteen percent of workers have sent an ill-judged email to their colleagues by mistake, while 31 […]
A poll of 1,000 UK office workers commissioned by Kyocera has found evidence of huge Paper waste. The average office worker uses some 10,000 sheets of Paper per year and many as 6,800 of those are wasted. Sixty-eight percent of respondents said they were personally concerned about the environment, compared to 77 percent in 2008. […]
Two-thirds (67%) of U.S. office workers at large companies would like their employers to offer them desks at which they can either sit or stand. And 60 percent said were convinced they would be more productive if given the option to work on their feet. The research was commissioned by Ergotron who manufacture computer mounting […]
People paralysed from the neck down will be able to control keyboards and wheelchairs by sniffing. Even in cases of almost complete paralysis, the ability to coordinate sniffing is often retained because the soft palate – whose movements control sniffing – receives signals from several nerves that are often unaffected by paralytic injuries and disorders. […]
According to research commissioned by sunshine.co.uk, an increasing number of Britons are borrowing in order to go on holiday. Over a quarter of the 1,891 respondents admitted they needed to borrow in order to go on holiday while 20 percent said that they would rather be in debt than go without a break from […]
Admin staffing company OfficeTeam have conducted a survey of U.S. workers to find out what are considered the most annoying break-room habits. The telephone poll of 432 office workers identified leaving a mess for someone else to clean up as the most annoying – cited by 44 percent of those surveyed. This was followed […]
The Japan Sumo Association has issued some of its wrestlers with iPads because their wobbly sausage-fingers are too fat to use a mobile phone. The Association is distributing 60 such devices among its training stables to improve communication. Sumo has recently been rocked by scandals over wrestlers’ links with yakuza and illegal gambling, match-fixing, and […]
‘Desk rage’ is the new ‘road rage’, according to a U.S. real estate valuation firm, Integra Realty Resources. Among their findings of American workers, half commonly skip lunch to keep working, and 52% indicate they worked up to 12 hours a day to complete their work. Forty-two percent said yelling and verbal abuse took place […]
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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