Britons see civil servants as bureaucratic, political and stuck in their ways, but also professional. Few see them as lazy – but few seem them as innovative or accessible either.
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) claim that staff are their most important asset but this is not reflected in their actions, according to a new research report to be launched on May 16, 2001 by businesshr, a specialist human resources advisory service for SMEs.
British Gas announced the results of its TIME survey. It examines the amount of time 456 SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises) spend on activities not directly related to delivering products or services. According to the survey administrative requirements can take over two months a year. Family life also suffers.
Nearly half a million (485,000) schoolchildren are working illegally, according to a new TUC/MORI survey out today (Wednesday). And over 100,000 schoolchildren admit to playing truant in order to do paid work.
Alodis, the UK's first independent service for Self-employed Professionals, launches today with new research by MORI, highlighting a growing trend among skilled workers to reject office life and work for themselves.
We often consider knowledge to be in people's heads. But a large amount of it is contained in email and the written document. Intraspect Software Inc., the C-business solution provider, commissioned MORI* to conduct a survey investigating how managers and directors use email within the business environment.
More than eight out of ten (82%) people believe that companies should be legally required to discuss their closure plans with their workforce, according to a MORI poll for the Transport and General Workers' Union, the UK's largest manufacturing union. The poll is released on the day T&G General Secretary Bill Morris attacked "the unacceptable face of corporate decision making we have seen from Vauxhall in Luton, Ford in Dagenham and Rover in Longbridge," where workers found out about factory closures from the media.
Familiarity and compliance with the Working Time Directive is encouragingly high amongst UK private companies and the private sector, according to a recent MORI survey commissioned by Blick plc.
