It’s the clothing in which to be seen, but in a health and safety rather than a fashionable sense. Since its emergence in this country in 1964 on the Scottish railways, high visibility clothing has proliferated apace, becoming an icon of the outdoor workplace. Recently, the BBC’s Jon Kelly even suggested that hi-vis clothing symbolises […]
Recent research has found that jeans are now more common in the workplace than suits and that one in three workers never wear a suit to work. The study of more than 1,000 workers, commissioned by the Chimes Shopping Centre, reveals that scruffiness of ‘Casual Friday’ has seaped into the rest of the workweek, with […]
A majority of office workers think the necktie, ubiquitous accessory of the white collar worker, will not survive more than another 50 years within British firms. Its demise is attributed to a fanning out from “casual Friday” of liberal dress codes and a relaxation of formal mores in online businesses where there is less emphasis […]
For some reason, a news story we did on chicken glasses last May has been one of our most popular pages in the last few weeks. In the spirit of this mania for fowl eyewear, here are a couple of apposite videos. The first one is a 1947 newsreel about the use of chicken glasses […]
Plunging necklines, UGG Boots and piercings are amongst the top office fashion betes noires for women, according to a recent poll by comparison site stylecompare.co.uk. Fake tan, visible underwear and jeans are also considered office workwear blunders. Six in ten bosses objected to cleavage being on show, with women chiefs more offended at this workplace […]
A Chinese farmer was in the news recently for making his charge of chickens wear glasses. Zhang Xiaolong from Fuijan Province thinks his roosters are behaving far less aggressively now they are bespectacled. The glasses prevent the birds from looking one another in the eye, seeing red, and pecking each other violently in a feathery […]
British women will spend £3.5 billion to make themselves look nice for Christmas parties this year. The average women aged 18 to 60 will spend £206.84 on clothes, shoes, accessories, hair, make-up and beauty treatments. One in five women will fork out for a new outfit for every party or event they go do over […]
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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