NEWS
March 2010
- Flexible working being used by one-fifth of employers to avoid job cuts, survey shows: One-fifth of organisations have avoided redundancies by introducing flexible working practices, a survey has shown. More…
- *** ClearWater News: ClearWater Launches a unique on-line ability test — Intellecto: ClearWater has launched a highly unique and advanced on-line psychometric ability test. Unlike traditional tests that provide a single percentile ability score, Intellecto offers very rich interpretive output coupled with a match of response pattern to eight employee populations ranging from shop-floor to Board Directors. More…
- Job security tops employee wish-lists during recession: Staff have returned to basics during the recession, citing stability and security as the most important aspects of employment, research has revealed. More…
- Companies waste £4,000 per employee due to pay inefficiency: UK companies are wasting almost £4,000 per employee – or 8% of their payroll costs – by failing to deliver their pay policies efficiently, research has revealed. More…
- Public sector employment losing popularity: The public sector has plummeted in popularity as an employer and is losing its sparkle as a place to work, research revealed today. The poll of more than 500 public sector staff by recruitment agency Hays found that fewer than 38% would consider nex More…
- Graduate recruiters urged to look beyond academic qualifications: Graduate recruiters have been urged to stop focusing on “arbitrary” academic qualifications in order to improve retention and diversity and source more suitable candidates. The call follows an announcement by PricewaterhouseCoopers that it has open More…
- Stress management moves up the agenda during the recession: The economic slowdown is forcing employers to increase their efforts to deal with stress among employees, according to the 2010 IRS stress management survey, to be published exclusively on XpertHR next week. More than half of the HR profession More…
- One-third of executives fear low employee engagement will lead to a loss of talent: Almost one-third of executives fears low levels of employee engagement and trust could lead to the loss of key talent when the economy recovers, new research has revealed. In the survey of 410 executives, by the Economist Intelligence Unit , 30% fe More…
February 2010
- *** ClearWater News – LinkdIn Discussion – What is the best Ability Test: Commentary on a question posted by Dr Mitch McCrimmon on LinkedIn – What is the best reasoning test on the market today? More…
- Recession has not stopped managers changing jobs: More managers left their jobs voluntarily in the past year than in the preceding 12 months, despite the recession, latest research from XpertHR salary survey reveals. The research, carried out jointly by XpertHR Salary Surveys and More…
- Public sector attitude to leadership needs updating: The public sector must radically overhaul traditional thinking on leadership if it is to respond to forthcoming budget cuts, a report has warned. Workers at every level – not just senior management teams – will need a new set of leadership skills to More…
January 2010
- Recession ‘over’ but employee engagement hits all-time low, CIPD warns: Job satisfaction has plummeted among UK workers despite GDP figures out today which are expected to mark an end to the recession. As official data is set to show that the UK economy returned to growth at the end of 2009, having spent a record 18 mon More…
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