All articles by Sian Harrington – Page 3
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: A fitter future will focus on capacity, not incapacity
Sick as a parrot of government interference in the workplace? Well next month a new system comes into force that employers will...
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News
Careers File: The website that organises your tea round and heralds a new management style
I have solved one of the age-old dilemmas of office politics: who should make the tea. Gone are the days of Mad Men's Don Draper sending the sole female team member - Peggy Olsen - off to make the refreshments. No, today we have equality in the form of social ...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: It's bad news for brand equity if big players do a Lewis Hamilton
Not since The Beatles wrote Taxman in response to Harold Wilson's 95% super-tax back in the 60s has there been so much furore over the amount of income we'll be paying to the Exchequer from April.
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News
Careers Flie: Neither Kraft nor Hershey can compare to real taste of Cadbury
The nightmare before Christmas has already come as far as I am concerned. It's likely my favourite confectionery brand Cadbury is...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Listen to Harman - companies do better with women on the board
Step to one side Sarah Connor. Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new foe Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman. Last month Harman...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Share ownership schemes can deliver for staff and also for their employers
Has the volatile economic climate made staff jittery about share ownership schemes?
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News
Careers File: Retailers can benefit from job malaise to lure top graduates
Tesco can expect to be flooded by applications from nervous graduates and undergraduates this month as entry for its 2010 scheme opens.
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Employees' health has a direct impact on productivity
Hurrah, it's holiday time. A fortnight in the sun and reason to cut down on the old waistline before you go. But a holiday should not be the only reason for cutting down on cream cakes.
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News
Kellogg's is doing a grrreat job of communicating its employee benefits scheme
Tony the Tiger is a beast of many skills. Not content with wakeboarding and high diving on YouTube while encouraging the nation's kiddiewinks to fill their faces with corn covered in sugar, Tony is now helping staff understand the value of their...
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News
Kellogg's is doing a grrreat job of communicating its employee benefits scheme
Tony the Tiger is a beast of many skills. Not content with wakeboarding and high diving on YouTube while encouraging the nation's kiddiewinks to fill their faces with corn covered in sugar, Tony is now helping staff understand the value of their...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Workers must know significance of pension changes
The words 'pension' and 'dull' are often to be found in the same sentence - particularly when it comes to Generation Y, who have many more important things to think about than retirement.
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News
Careers File: MPs claims scandal has put all expense policies under the spotlight
It's time to stop the swindling and hop off the expenses gravy train, says Siân Harrington
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: How will the extension of the right to request flexible working affect your outfit?
Last month I looked at dispute resolution, one of two major employment changes that came into effect this month....
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: New Act aims to cut down on the escalating numbers of employment tribunals
Sian Harrington says look out for two major changes to employment law that take effect on 6 April
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News
Well done to Sir Terry for promoting from within
Three cheers for Sir Terry Leahy for appointing internal candidate Laurie McIlwee finance director.
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Do your sums before resorting to unnecessary redundancies
Startling job loss figures are not as bad as they first appear, argues Sian Harrington
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Christmas without Woolies is sad but it's best staff can take heart
News of Woolworths' demise is made more poignant by its timing, finds Sian Harrington
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News
Careers File: Hidden risks and costs mean redundancies can be a false economy
Cadbury, McBride, Paramount Foods, Arla, PepsiCo, Bakkavör - the list of grocery companies making redundancies is growing longer. Though not all such decisions are solely a response to the current economic downturn, in such times employers...
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Profiles and QandAs
Careers File: Immigration law will starve food industry
New immigration controls could starve the industry of essential seasonal workers, says Sian Harrington
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News
How not to lift staff morale in tougher economic times
Marks & Spencer’s move to reduce redundancy pay levels is poorly timed. It will do it no favours as it struggles to bounce back. Dear oh dear, what is Marks & Spencer playing at? If it weren’t bad enough that its 68,000 employees must wake up each...
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