We all know that most consumer parcel delivery companies are pretty disdainful of their customers (recipients and retailers). However my latest encounter with City Link shows them plunging to new depths. I’ll tell you the tale in a moment, but first why write about it here? I’ve long cared passionately about customer service, which in [...]
Last night I finished watching the excellent BBC series The Virtual Revolution presented by Dr Aleks Krotoski. It served as a very useful reminder of how much our lives have been changed by technology in an incredibly short space of time. Dr Krotoski had access to a host of major individuals from Tim Berners-Lee (a [...]
By Ben | January 13, 2010
As a follow-up to my recent post about Prof Charles Handy here, I was interested to come across this article in the Times last week that highlights the many entirely new jobs that will be created this century. As my wife reminded me recently, most of the jobs that will employ our children’s generation probably [...]
By Ben | December 15, 2009
As it is GazetMe’s purpose to enable our users to track their many achievements, here at GazetMe Towers we thought we’d start an occasional series of reports highlighting notable achievements by individuals across the country.
First up then we celebrate the achievements of Clare Robertson. Now fans of Woolworths and residents of Dorchester may already be familiar [...]
By Ben | September 16, 2009
Time for our quarterly look at unemployment with the news that in the three months to July the total number of jobless rose by a massive (and scary) 210,000, the equivalent of the entire population of an outer London borough.
Over to you Lord Sugar: ”Hounslow…you’re fired.”
Well they may not be coming until 2010, but the announcement by Tesco that it is to create 800 new jobs in Glasgow as part of its growing finance business is good news. Why Glasgow? Doubtless a £5m grant from the Scottish Executive helped to sweeten the deal, but it’s likely that Tesco was looking [...]
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A worrying piece in Personnel Today quotes both John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI with the same observation: that the much touted creative alternatives to redundancy (e.g. 4 day weeks and job sharing) may only serve to delay redundancies rather than prevent them altogether. [...]
A further illustration of the paucity of new jobs about comes in the announcement by Diageo that it was to ‘create’ 400 new jobs at the same time as it made 900 redundancies, which is beginning to unravel. As this report in the Daily Record shows, many of those new jobs are in fact [...]
As we’ve made it a habit here to report on many of the job losses over the last six months it would seem churlish not to raise a small cheer for the news that Nissan is to create 350 new jobs at its Sunderland plant. But two thoughts spring quickly to mind: first, this is [...]
On Radio 4 this morning there was more talk about green shoots. But as is always the case with recessions, unemployment tends to lag behind any upturn (and I am not convinced that it’s over yet). As if to illustrate the point, we learn today that in the three months to May 281,000 people have lost [...]
