What Are the Financial Implications For A Firm Which Is Considering Offering Flexible Working Practices to Its Staff?

The directive covering flexible working were published in 2002 and were intended to persuade employers to initiate flexible working options for their workers. It is important to understand that the provision of these options was not compulsory under the directive. An employer is required to “seriously consider” offering flexible working to workers in [...]

What Are The Key Consequences And Responsibilities Of A Company When Workers Are Allowed To Work From Home?

If, like me, you have come across a growing number of references during the past few years to the notion of permitting staff to Work From Home, then you could be surprised to hear that the ratio of staff who do so on a permanent basis has been the same since 2002. Only three [...]

Voip Technologies Cut Communication Expenses And Permit More Employees To Get Out Of The Office And Work Remotely.

VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol is a expansive name for a group of technologies which permit voice communication over an internet network. Instead of standard voice call over a landline or a mobile telephone network, VoIP employs the internet link that your laptop or pc has already established. Typical voice communication is relatively pricey, [...]

Are Companies Familiar With Employee Engagement And The Benefits It Can Bring When Introduced Correctly?

As is the case with almost all new concepts in the human resources function the proving ground tends to be the large global businesses that are happy to fund external research programmes or to test theories within their own workforces if the scope of the sample number of workers being surveyed will be big enough [...]

Seo Is An Often Used Term But What Exactly Does It Mean?

With any emerging concept that transpires there are usually new words, three letter acronyms (tla’s) and phrases linked to it. Search engine optimization (or seo, as it is often shown) is one such phrase to have emerged from the increase in Internet Business.
As greater numbers of firms trade over the worldwide web, they need to [...]

Faulse Opinions of The Word Outsourcing – Where Do They Come From

Negative viewpoints on outsourcing originate totally in the fault of the misunderstanding of the word outsourcing, and not due to the world access of the Net. Since the word outsourcing so constantly inspires images of that offshore practice, it’s nearly impossible for public perception to escape it and so the growing practice of outsourcing [...]

Unusually High Volumes Of Snow for UK Are Stopping Employees From Making The Journey To Work

We seem to have had higher levels of snow this Christmas than for a number of years in Britain. Because of this, we are unable to cope well. Even small volumes of snow have in the past caused difficulties for the highways agency in keeping our roads safe, and the railway lines have had an [...]