Office workers are increasingly spending their break times online, shopping, social networking and reading news. A gocompare.com survey of 3,000 office workers found that internet breaks lasted 6 hours and 23 minutes each week on average. This includes an average one hour and fifteen minutes on social networking sites and two hours five minutes reading […]
Yesterday was N-Dubz, today is the Lindisfarne Gospels. Today’s tasteful 2011 calendar features a British Library treasure – the Lindisfarne Gospels, a richly-decorated Christian manuscript from medieval England. The original manuscript dates from the late 7th or early 8th century. The Northumbrian manuscript is a unique combination of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic religious art and is […]
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be spying for the most desirable calendars to hang up on your wall in 2011. Either phone or enable javascript to view contact email address of any must-have calendars that you come across – seriously desirable, horrible or funny. To kick things off, let us recommend the Sarah Palin […]
Thirty percent of British office workers kissed a colleague at last year’s Christmas office party, according to a poll commissioned by travel agency lastminute.com. Fifteen percent claimed to have had sex with a co-worker during or after the bash. The poll revealed age and regional differences. Older workers were more likely to acknowledge office party […]
A drinks vending machine which recognises faces has proved a big hit in Japan. The JR East Water Business Company says sales of machine-dispensed beverages have tripled since the launch of its invention. Sensors in the machine assess the age and gender of users and then recommendations based on these are passed on to the […]
An incredibly high-resolution panoramic picture of London has been created by photographer Jeffrey Martin and the London gigapixel project. It’s the highest resolution image of any city ever. The photographs of which the panorama is a composite took three days to take – from the 36th floor of Centre Point. Six weeks were spent composing […]
Radioactivity and animals don’t mix The hunt is on for a radioactive mouse after radioactive mouse droppings were found on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Washington state. Workers at the plant recently tracked down a radioactive rabbit. It is believed both the rabbit and the mouse may have eaten radioactive cesium exposed by demolition work on […]
A 5ft 2in Edinburgh woman has been fined £50 for leaving a full rubbish bag beside a new style of wheelie bin because she was too short to pop the waste in the container. Miriam Leighton, 29, appealed the fine because she could not operate the tall and complicated rubbish receptacle. Her appeal failed. “I […]
If you thought “air fresheners” was a stale subject in relation to current affairs, you’d be wrong. At least, air fresheners have been hitting the (minor) headlines for the last several weeks in varied contexts. Last week, air fresheners led police in Worcester, Massachusetts to a sizeable cocaine bust. When a Jeep Cherokee was pulled […]
An international poll of employees has revealed most office workers claim to understand their companies’ security policies while at the same time breaching security because of ignorance, negligence or disregard. The survey also identifies “IT free-styling,” that is, “casual disregard” for the boundary between personal and private use of hardware and internet usage. The poll, […]
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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