City hiring levels remain bouyant
Job opportunities in London’s financial services sector grew at the start of Q3 10 with an increase of 7% in roles new to the market, from 5,645 in June 10 to 6,048 in July 10. There was also an increase on July 09 recruitment levels with a 71% rise from [...]

Employers must avoid allowing workers to drift towards retirement if they are not meeting the requisite standards and should not let loyalty dissuade them from maintaining performance, an expert has suggested.
Institute for Employment Studies principal research fellow Helen Barnes accepted that many bosses are hesitant to criticise employees who have often provided decades of good [...]

Age is no longer holding people back in the workplace, according to one expert.
Donna Tipping, a senior consultant at Forster AGEncy, said that when the default retirement age is abolished, people in their 50s no longer see “age as a barrier for changing career”.
She explained that for many of them, their motivation may be financial.
However, [...]

In the build up to September’s Stress Prevention and Mental Wellbeing Forum, Kevin Young, general manager EMEA, SkillSoft explains how stressed staff can be supported in a way that benefits the entire organisation.
It had to happen sometime; suddenly positive thinking is getting a negative press. Since the publication of the book Smile or Die [...]

Changing the attitudes of staff, by using an innovative training film, has helped Plymouth City Council to provide a better service, cut customer complaints, improve employee morale and motivation and create a more enjoyable and supportive work environment.
Morale in the council’s customer service team had dipped following a period of change and consolidation but [...]

Charity, the Education and Employers Taskforce, is planning the first ever national campaign for business leaders to visit state schools and colleges during the week of the 18 – 22 October 2010.
This ‘call to action’ is a chance for bosses from private, public and third sector organisations to hear first-hand from head teachers and young [...]

Offering ways for employees to relax after working hard in the office can be one of the best means for businesses to raise staff wellbeing and productivity, it has been claimed.
Andrew Hodgkins, acting managing director at Keith Prowse, said a side effect of the office culture can be that workers get run down and one [...]

Sodexo Motivation Solutions, the world’s largest motivation solutions provider, has teamed up with Cycle Solutions, a leading provider in cycle to work schemes. This partnership, ahead of the National Bike Week (19th-27th June), marks the next step in the development of a range of flexible benefits available to Sodexo Motivation Solutions’ and Cycle Solutions’ clients. [...]

New research has revealed that 70 per cent of UK workers are planning to stay in employment past the standard retirement age.
The Real Retirement Report by insurance company Aviva indicates that those employees in their last ten years before reaching 65 may have to contend with lower incomes and less money saved up.
According to the [...]

Almost two thirds of business leaders agree a change in government will bring improvements to the job market.
With election polls pointing towards a change of government this week, a survey of senior executives by management careers site TheLadders.co.uk found the party that best represented the needs of the jobseeker was the Conservatives (37%), followed by [...]